Caenby Corner is a small area in the

West Lindsey West Lindsey is a local government district in Lincolnshire, England. Its council is based in Gainsborough. History The district was formed on 1 April 1974, from the urban districts of Gainsborough, Market Rasen, along with Caistor Rural Distr ...

district 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, at the roundabout junction of the A15 and A631 roads. Close to the village of

Caenby Caenby is a hamlet and civil parish in the West Lindsey Non-metropolitan district, district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated north from the city and county town of Lincoln, Lincolnshire, Lincoln. The population is included in the civil ...

, it is situated on what was a major

Roman road Roman roads ( la, viae Romanae ; singular: ; meaning "Roman way") were physical infrastructure vital to the maintenance and development of the Roman state, and were built from about 300 BC through the expansion and consolidation of the Roman Re ...

known as

Ermine Street Ermine Street is a major Roman road in England that ran from London (''Londinium'') to Lincoln (''Lindum Colonia'') and York (''Eboracum''). The Old English name was ''Earninga Strǣt'' (1012), named after a tribe called the ''Earningas'', ...

leading from London to the North of England. The junction is north from the city and

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Lincoln Lincoln most commonly refers to: * Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), the sixteenth president of the United States * Lincoln, England, cathedral city and county town of Lincolnshire, England * Lincoln, Nebraska, the capital of Nebraska, U.S. * Lincoln ...

. It is in the

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 ...

of Glentworth. On Caenby Corner roundabout is a

filling station A filling station, also known as a gas station () or petrol station (), is a facility that sells fuel and engine lubricants for motor vehicles. The most common fuels sold in the 2010s were gasoline (or petrol) and diesel fuel. Gasoli ...

with shop and separate coffee shop, a private residence and the closed Moncks Arms hotel with adjacent

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and lorry park. The hotel had for many years been derelict, but in 2007 there were plans to redevelop it."Caenby Corner transformation go-ahead"
''Gainsborough Standard'' online Despite the re-cladding to the outside of the building, the hotel has never re-opened. Caenby Corner Petrol Station - geograph

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