Careby Aunby and Holywell is a

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

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South Kesteven South Kesteven is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in Lincolnshire, England, forming part of the traditional Kesteven division of the county. It covers Bourne, Lincolnshire, Bourne, Grantham, Market Deeping and Stamford, Li ...

, south-west

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 ...

, in England. It stretches from the

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border with

Rutland Rutland () is a ceremonial county and unitary authority in the East Midlands, England. The county is bounded to the west and north by Leicestershire, to the northeast by Lincolnshire and the southeast by Northamptonshire. Its greatest len ...

in the west to the River West Glen in the east. The B1176 road from

Corby Glen Corby Glen is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is approximately south-east of the market town of Grantham and 8 miles (13 km) north west of Bourne. History The Church of England paris ...

passes through Careby and on past Aunby toward Stamford. The main London to Scotland railway line passes through the parish, the line upon which ''

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'' took the speed record for the

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. The total population in the 2001 census was 146, falling marginally to 143 at the 2011 census. The population in 1801 was 65, and had risen to 133 by 1911 The centre of the parish is near

Places in the parish

Settlements

*Careby *Aunby *Holywell

Other Locations

*Castle Dyke Earthen banks forming the remains of a small moated medieval structure in the woods between Aunby and Holywell. *Lincolnshire Gate At the western boundary with Rutland there is a small but important Nature Reserve called Robert's Field at Lincolnshire Gate. *Stanton's Pit At the Eastern side on the lane to Witham on the Hill is a small but important Nature Reserve called Stanton's pit, a former sandpit now important to bird life. *Holywell Banks Grassland designated an SSSI. *Careby Camp An Iron-Age hill fort in modern woodland.

Geology

The parish's geology is a complex mixture of numerous strata of Jurassic rocks with the highest ground formed of glacial drift. The northernmost part lies on the gravels and sands which filled the valley of a

Cromerian Stage The Cromerian Stage or Cromerian Complex, also called the Cromerian (german: Cromerium), is a stage in the Pleistocene glacial history of north-western Europe, mostly occurring more than half a million years ago. It is named after the East Anglian t ...

river. To the east and west of Careby are patches of chalky glacial

till image:Geschiebemergel.JPG, Closeup of glacial till. Note that the larger grains (pebbles and gravel) in the till are completely surrounded by the matrix of finer material (silt and sand), and this characteristic, known as ''matrix support'', is d ...

, the eastern one overlying a thin remnant of Kellways beds with

cornbrash The Cornbrash Formation is a Middle Jurassic geological formation in England. It ranges in age from Bathonian to Callovian, the uppermost part of the Middle Jurassic. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the forma ...

fairly extensively exposed to its south. There are exposures of Blisworth clay,

Blisworth Limestone The Blisworth Limestone Formation is a geological formation primarily consisting of limestone deposited during the Bathonian stage of the Middle Jurassic, found in the Jurassic ridge which extends north and south through England. It was laid down ...

, Upper Estuarine Series, and Upper Lincolnshire Limestone. Holywell’s quarries supplied stone for various building projects including Windsor Castle.

Administration

The ecclesiastical parish includes Careby Aunby and Holywell and is part of the Castle Bytham with Creeton group of parishes under the

Beltisloe Beltisloe is a Deanery of the Diocese of Lincoln in England, and a former Wapentake. The Wapentake of Beltisloe was established as ancient administrative division of the English county of Lincolnshire before the Norman Conquest of 1066.

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. The shared parish priest is The Revd Sue Evans. Once part of the

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Kesteven The Parts of Kesteven ( or ) are a traditional division of Lincolnshire, England. This division had long had a separate county administration (quarter sessions), along with the two other Parts of Lincolnshire, Lindsey and Holland. Etymology Th ...

, the parish is now part of South Kesteven District. Its obligations under the 19th century poor law were undertaken by the Bourne Poor Law Union from 1835 onwards. The present Electoral arrangements are as follows: *

South Kesteven District Council South is one of the cardinal directions or Points of the compass, compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Pro ...

, Hillsides ward – Councillo
Elizabeth Channell
*

Lincolnshire County Council Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a Counties of England, 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-we ...

, Stamford Rural ward – Councillo
Thomas Trollope-Bellew
*

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, Stamford and Grantham constituency &ndash
Nicholas Boles
MP *

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, East Midlands &ndash
Derek ClarkRoger HelmerGlenis WillmottEmma McClarkinBill Newton Dunn
In lieu of a parish council, local democracy takes the form of a

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Economy and amenities

Most of the businesses in the parish are farms. * Stanton's Pit is a former gravel pit operated as a wetland

Nature Reserve A nature reserve (also known as a wildlife refuge, wildlife sanctuary, biosphere reserve or bioreserve, natural or nature preserve, or nature conservation area) is a protected area of importance for flora, fauna, or features of geological or ...

by the

Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust The Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust, (part of the Wildlife Trusts partnership), covers the whole ceremonial county of Lincolnshire, England. It was founded in 1948 as a voluntary charitable organisation dedicated to conserving the wildlife and wild ...

References

* Ordnance Survey map Pathfinder Sheet 877 * Institute of Geological Sciences map Sheet 143 * Soil Survey of England and Wales Sheet 4 * Ordnance Survey Map of Southern Britain in the Iron Age
Map of civil parish boundaries from SKDC
*

External links

Contact details for the parish council
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