Ashby cum Fenby is a village and
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...
in
North East Lincolnshire
North East Lincolnshire is a Unitary authority area with borough status in Lincolnshire, England. It borders the borough of North Lincolnshire and districts of West Lindsey and East Lindsey. The population of the district in the 2011 Census was ...
, England, approximately south from
Grimsby
Grimsby or Great Grimsby is a port town and the administrative centre of North East Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, England. Grimsby adjoins the town of Cleethorpes directly to the south-east forming a conurbation. Grimsby is north-east of Linco ...
, and just east of the
A18 road
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* A18 motorway (Belgium), a road connecting Bruges and Dunkirk, France
* A18 motorway (Italy), a road connecting Messina and Catania in Sicily
* A18 ...
.
In the
2001 Census the population was recorded as 248, increasing marginally to 249 at the 2011 census.
In 1085
William the Conqueror
William I; ang, WillelmI (Bates ''William the Conqueror'' p. 33– 9 September 1087), usually known as William the Conqueror and sometimes William the Bastard, was the first House of Normandy, Norman List of English monarchs#House of Norman ...
ordered that a survey should take place across his kingdom to determine the amount of tax that was due. The survey took place in 1086 and the results were written down in what has become known as the
Domesday Book
Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...
. For each place there is a list of
manors together with a summary of their assets. In 1086 Ashby cum Fenby was in the
Hundred
100 or one hundred (Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 and preceding 101.
In medieval contexts, it may be described as the short hundred or five score in order to differentiate the English and Germanic use of "hundred" to de ...
of
Haverstoe in Lincolnshire. The village had three
manors and 29 households which is considered to be quite large for that time.
Ashby cum Fenby
Grade II*
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listed
Anglican
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church is dedicated to
St Peter
) (Simeon, Simon)
, birth_date =
, birth_place = Bethsaida, Gaulanitis, Syria, Roman Empire
, death_date = Between AD 64–68
, death_place = probably Vatican Hill, Rome, Italia, Roman Empire
, parents = John (or Jonah; Jona)
, occupation ...
.
The church has an
Early English tower,
aisle
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and
belfry, a
Decorated chancel
In church architecture, the chancel is the space around the altar, including the choir and the sanctuary (sometimes called the presbytery), at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building. It may terminate in an apse.
Ove ...
, and
Perpendicular
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font
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In mod ...
. Beneath the tower are remaining parts of a 13th-century
rood screen
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. In the north aisle are
monuments
A monument is a type of structure that was explicitly created to commemorate a person or event, or which has become relevant to a social group as a part of their remembrance of historic times or cultural heritage, due to its artistic, hist ...
to
Sir William Wray (d. 1617) and his wife Frances (d. 1647), and to Susanna Drury, sister of Frances.
[Cox, J. Charles (1916) ''Lincolnshire'' p. 47; Methuen & Co. Ltd]
References
External links
*
Villages in Lincolnshire
Borough of North East Lincolnshire
Civil parishes in Lincolnshire
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