Barlings and Low Barlings are two small hamlets lying south off the

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at Langworth, in the West Lindsey district of

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, England. Low Barlings is a scattered collection of homes, situated along a trackway south from Barlings towards boggy ground near the River Witham. Both hamlets are in the

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of Barlings. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 460.

History

Barlings is listed in the ''

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'' as "Berlinge". Barlings includes the

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listed church of

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, and

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listed

Barlings Abbey Barlings Abbey, Lincolnshire, was a Premonstratensian monastery in England, founded in 1154, as a daughter house of the Abbey of St. Mary and St. Martial in Newsham. History Its founder was Ralph de Haye, son of the constable of Lincoln Castle ...

ruins. Other listed buildings include a hall, house and farm house. Part of the parish was once a medieval deer park. Barlings Abbey 1726

There are no standing remains of Barlings Abbey but the main building outside the monastic church has been interpreted as a detached monastic household such as the abbot's lodging. This building was reformed as a post-

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secular residence of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, who used it as a vice-regal palace. Brandon was

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's vice-regent in

in the wake of the

Lincolnshire Rising The Pilgrimage of Grace was a popular revolt beginning in Yorkshire in October 1536, before spreading to other parts of Northern England including Cumberland, Northumberland, and north Lancashire, under the leadership of Robert Aske. The "most ...

.Everson, P and Stocker, D 2003. 'The archaeology of vice-regality: Charles Brandon’s brief rule in Lincolnshire' in eds David Gaimster and Roberta Gilchrist, The Archaeology of Reformation c 1480-1580, Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology monograph 1, 145-58.

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Aerial view of Barlings
{{authority control Villages in Lincolnshire Civil parishes in Lincolnshire West Lindsey District