Elsham is a village and
civil parish
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in
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 ...
, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 400. It is situated north from
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 ...
, north from the
M180 and west from the
A15 road.
The A15 (built in 1978) traverses the old runways of the former
RAF Elsham Wolds
Royal Air Force Elsham Wolds or more simply RAF Elsham Wolds is a former Royal Air Force station in England, which operated in the First World War and the Second World War. It is located just to the north east of the village of Elsham in nort ...
airfield. Close to the village is
Elsham Hall
Elsham Hall is a 17th-century English country house situated in its own parkland in Elsham, North Lincolnshire. The park and gardens are open to the public.
The house
The present house dates back to the 1760s, on the site of an earlier dwelling of ...
.
Elsham
Grade II*
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listed
Anglican
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church, dedicated to
All Saints, is of 12th century
Early English origin. It was restored in 1874.
[Cox, J. Charles (1916) ''Lincolnshire'' p. 123; Methuen & Co. Ltd]
At Elsham there was an
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*Augustinians, members of religious orders following the Rule of St Augustine
*Augustinianism, the teachings of Augustine of Hippo and his intellectual heirs
*Someone who follows Augustine of Hippo
* Canons Regular of Sain ...
priory; it was dissolved during the 1536
Suppression
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Laws
* Suppression of Communism Act
*Suppression order a type of censorship where a court rules that certain information cannot be published
* Tohunga Suppression Act 1907, an Act of the Parliament of New Zealand aimed ...
.
[
The village is the birthplace of the agricultural engineer ]Richard Hornsby
Richard Hornsby ( Elsham in Lincolnshire 4 June 1790 – 1864) was an inventor and founder of a major agricultural machinery firm that developed steam engines. His firm also developed early diesels and caterpillar tracks. He came from a farmi ...
,Wallace L. W. Sargent
Wallace Leslie William Sargent (February 15, 1935 – October 29, 2012) was a British-born American astronomer and the Ira S. Bowen Professor of Astronomy at California Institute of Technology.
Education
Sargent was born in Elsham, No ...
, and George Green, a recipient of the Medal of Honor
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in the American Civil War
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.[ ]
References
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Villages in the Borough of North Lincolnshire
Civil parishes in Lincolnshire