Dalderby Yasin Adem Hasso, Dalderby is a village in the East Lindsey Non-metropolitan district, district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately south from Horncastle, on the A153 road and in the civil parish of Roughton, Lincolnshire, ...

is a village in the

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, England. It is situated approximately south from

Horncastle Horncastle is a town and civil parish in the East Lindsey district in Lincolnshire, east of Lincoln. Its population was 6,815 at the 2011 census and estimated at 7,123 in 2019. A section of the ancient Roman walls remains. History Romans Alt ...

, on the

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and in the

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. Dalderby once had an

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dedicated to Saint Martin. It was demolished in 1742, possibly because of a decline in village population. Teapot Hall was an early 19th-century one-roomed cottage with a thatched roof. However it was long regarded as a medieval building, of considerable historical importance as a survival of an early

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house. In 1945 it was burnt down accidentally during

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celebrations, and nothing remains today. It was at this point that its true date was discovered. Manor Farmhouse is a Grade II

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that dates from the 17th century. It has a

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. Dado paneling inside the building reputedly was taken from the demolished St. Martin's Church. Supposedly the village sent the largest proportion of its men to fight in World War I of any village in the country. A "War Cross", or temporary stand-in for a permanent

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, was unveiled there by General Sir William Robertson, chief of the

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from 1916 to 1918.

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{{authority control Villages in Lincolnshire East Lindsey District