Calcethorpe is a

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and

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(DMV), in the

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Calcethorpe with Kelstern Calcethorpe with Kelstern is a civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated west from the market town of Louth, and in the Lincolnshire Wolds, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The parish includes the ...

, in the

East Lindsey East Lindsey is a local government district in Lincolnshire, England. The population of the district council was 136,401 at the 2011 census. The council is based in Manby. Other major settlements in the district include Alford, Wragby, Spilsby ...

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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. It is situated approximately west from the

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, and in the

Lincolnshire Wolds The Lincolnshire Wolds are a range of low hills in the county of Lincolnshire, England which run roughly parallel with the North Sea coast, from the Humber Estuary in the north-west to the edge of the Lincolnshire Fens in the south-east. They a ...

, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. In 1971 the parish had a population of 27. On 1 April 1987 the parish was abolished and merged with

Kelstern Kelstern is a village in the civil parish of Calcethorpe with Kelstern, in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The village is north from the A631 road, north-west from Louth and south-east from Binbrook. Calcethorpe with Kels ...

to form "Calcethorpe with Kelstern". Calcethorpe is recorded in the 1086 ''

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'' as having two households and six acres of meadow. The church was dedicated to Saint Faith but had fallen into ruin and disappeared by about 1450, around the same time as the rest of the village was abandoned. The

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near Manor Farm are known locally as 'Priests Close' and the probable site of the church.

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* {{Authority control Deserted medieval villages in Lincolnshire Former civil parishes in Lincolnshire East Lindsey District