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NOTE: Wikipedia has a very long article on Folkingham. The six earlier sections, which are not of such interest to the family historian, have been omitted here.
Folkingham is a village and civil parish on the northern edge of the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies on the A15 road north of Bourne. The civil parish and ecclesiastical parish have the same boundaries. The 2001 Census recorded a population of 729,[1] which increased to 796 at the 2011 census. The distances omitted in the excerpt from Wikipedia are "11 miles (18 km) north of Bourne and 10 miles (16 km) south of Sleaford". [edit] Post-Reformation
[edit] Into the Georgian Age
[edit] Heathcote's Town
NOTE: Threekingham is in the North Kesteven District. [edit] Notable Buildings
[edit] The House of CorrectionIn the early 19th century Folkingham was part of Quarter Sessions, the higher court that dispensed justice for the area, which explains why a House of Correction, or minor prison, was built. It was constructed on the site of Folkingham Castle.[2] The surviving Grade II* listed buildings consist of the original 19th-century governor's house and gateway, dating from 1808 and 1825. It was closed in 1878 but was taken over in about 1980 by the Landmark Trust, who converted the Gateway into a holiday home. [edit] The GreyhoundThe Greyhound, once a coaching inn, dates back to 1650. It has since been converted into flats. It is a Grade II*listed building. [edit] Parish churchThe Church of England parish church of Saint Andrew originates from the late 12th century and was largely completed by the late 15th, with restorations carried out in 1825, 1858 and 1860. It has early Decorated Gothic arcades and a mainly Early English chancel, with a Norman pier where there was an opening into a chantry chapel. On the south side of the church are the remains of stocks and a whipping-post. The church is a Grade I listed building.[3] The church is a prominent feature of the village, but is inconspicuous from the Market Place. In 2006 it was damaged when gale force winds blew down two of the four pinnacles, one of which fell onto the roof causing damaging costing more than £100,000 to repair. Folkingham parish is part of the South Lafford Group of parishes in the Lafford Deanery, Diocese of Lincoln. [edit] Folkingham ManorFolkingham Manor House is located just off the Market place and is located in the centre of Folkingham. It was built for Lord Clinton in the 17th century and was constructed of stone taken from the castle [edit] Research Tips
The south of Lincolnshire is very low-lying and land had to be drained for agriculture to be successful. The larger drainage channels, many of which are parallel to each other, became boundaries between parishes. Many parishes are long and thin for this reason. There is much fenland in Lincolnshire, particularly in the Boston and Horncastle areas. Fenlands tended to be extraparochial before the mid 1850s, and although many sections were identified with names and given the title "civil parish", little information has been found about them. Many appear to be abolished in 1906, but the parish which adopts them is not given in A Vision of Britain through Time. Note the WR category Lincolnshire Fenland Settlements which is an attempt to organize them into one list. From 1889 until 1974 Lincolnshire was divided into three administrative counties: Parts of Holland (in the southeast), Parts of Kesteven (in the southwest) and Parts of Lindsey (in the north of the county). These formal names do not fit with modern grammatical usage, but that is what they were, nonetheless. In 1974 the northern section of Lindsey, along with the East Riding of Yorkshire, became the short-lived county of Humberside. In 1996 Humberside was abolished and the area previously in Lincolnshire was made into the two "unitary authorities" of North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire. The remainder of Lincolnshire was divided into "non-metropolitan districts" or "district municipalities" in 1974. Towns, villages and parishes are all listed under Lincolnshire, but the present-day districts are also given so that places in this large county can more easily be located and linked to their wider neighbourhoods. See the WR placepage Lincolnshire, England and the smaller divisions for further explanation.
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