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North Kelsey is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The village is situated west from Caistor and north-east from the county town of Lincoln. Within the parish is the hamlet of North Kelsey Moor, once the site of North Kelsey railway station. According to the 2001 Census North Kelsey had a population of 959, increasing slightly to 966 at the 2011 census. The parish is situated 4 miles (6 km) west from Caistor and 19 miles (31 km) northeast from the county town of Lincoln. [edit] Landmarks
North Kelsey parish church was dedicated to St Nicholas until the late 19th century, after which dedicated to All Hallows. The church was rebuilt in 1869, although the tower dates from the 13th century. An early stone coffin lid lies against the outside wall The church suffered minor damage in a whirlwind which hit South and North Kelsey in the 1930s. Facing the church is Grade II listed Church Farm[1] The central part of the house is Elizabethan, with later Georgian additions, including larger windows. The south wall of the house is constructed in the same manner, and is the same age as, the 13th-century church tower. The adjacent village of Hibaldstow is reached by crossing Hibaldstow Bridge, an iron lattice girder bridge, built in 1889, that spans the River Ancholme. The former RAF Caistor is chiefly within the parish, and the concrete bases of three Thor IRBM launch pads remain. [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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