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South Willingham is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated south-west from the A157 road, south-east from Market Rasen, north from Horncastle and 10 miles west from Louth. South Willingham is recorded in the Domesday Book as "Ulingeham". South Willingham Grade II listed Anglican parish church is dedicated to St Martin. The church, built of greenstone, was rebuilt in 1835, but the Perpendicular style tower and screen remain. In 1964 Pevsner noted a 1571 paten cover by John Morley. Other Grade II listed buildings include four cottages and two farm houses The village had both a Wesleyan and a Free Methodist chapel, both now converted to other use. South Willingham was a railway station on the Great Northern Railway branch line from Bardney to Louth. The station closed in the 1950s. This is a lengthy Wikipedia article with numerous sub-headings; the contents of some are duplicated in the introduction. The most useful sub-section for WeRelate purposes is "Geography". [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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