Cadney 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 the

North Lincolnshire North Lincolnshire is a unitary authority area in Lincolnshire, England, with a population of 167,446 in the 2011 census. The borough includes the towns of Scunthorpe, Brigg, Haxey, Crowle, Epworth, Bottesford, Kirton in Lindsey and Barton ...

district, in the county of

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-west, Leicestershire ...

, England. The population of the parish at the 2011 census was 459. It is situated south from the town of

Brigg Brigg ( /'brɪg/) is a market town in North Lincolnshire, England, with a population of 5,076 in the 2001 UK census, the population increased to 5,626 at the 2011 census. The town lies at the junction of the River Ancholme and east–west tra ...

. Cadney's

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listed

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church is dedicated to All Saints. It is chiefly

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, with an Early English tower and

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, and a Norman

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.Cox, J. Charles (1916) ''Lincolnshire'' p. 91, 92; Methuen & Co. Ltd The parish was created on 1 April 1936 through the abolition of Cadney cum Howsham and Newstead. The parish boundary is defined by water on all sides, by the Old

River Ancholme The River Ancholme is a river in Lincolnshire, England, and a tributary of the Humber. It rises at Ancholme Head, a spring just north of the village of Ingham and immediately west of the Roman Road, Ermine Street. It flows east and then north ...

, Kettleby Beck and North Kelsey Beck. Within the parish, at Newstead on the River Ancholme, lies the site of the

Gilbertine The Gilbertine Order of Canons Regular was founded around 1130 by Saint Gilbert in Sempringham, Lincolnshire, where Gilbert was the parish priest. It was the only completely English religious order and came to an end in the 16th century at the ...

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Priory, founded by Henry II in 1171, and endowed with the island of Ancholme, and lands around Cadney and Hardwick. The priory was limited to 13

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s and

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s. It was surrendered in 1538 under the act of

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. On the site of the priory stands Newstead Priory Farmhouse, which retains the remains of a

vaulted room and a

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window. The farm is

listed.

Notable people

The clergyman and ecologist

Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock The Reverend (Edward) Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock (23 July 1858 – 3 February 1922) was an English clergyman and ecologist. He was an early exponent of the ecological approach to natural history recording. Early life Woodruffe-Peacock, always kn ...

made his living here from 1891 onwards, the very rural and sparsely populated parish proving useful in his development as an ecologist.

References

External links

* Villages in the Borough of North Lincolnshire Civil parishes in Lincolnshire {{Lincolnshire-geo-stub