Fulletby is a village and a
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of Parish (administrative division), administrative parish used for Local government in England, local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below district ...
in the
East Lindsey 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, Leicestershir ...
, England. It is in the
Lincolnshire Wolds, and north-east from
Horncastle, south from
Louth, and north-west from
Spilsby. The parish covers approximately . At the time of the 2011 census the population remained less than 100 and is included in the civil parish of
Low Toynton.
History
The village is listed in the 1086 ''
Domesday Book
Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...
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In 1841 the village consisted primarily of mud-and-stud cottages. In 1849 six Roman funeral urns were dug up in the parish. They contained burned bone fragments; one contained a Roman coin.
[''Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull'' 1885, p. 401] This area was occupied by the Romans from the 1st through 4th centuries, AD.
In 1885 ''
Kelly's Directory'' reported that the area's chief crops were wheat, barley, oats and turnips. In addition to the Anglican church of St. Andrew, the village had both a
Wesleyan and a
Primitive Methodist chapel.
[
Fulletby Grade II listed Anglican church, dedicated to ]St Andrew
Andrew the Apostle ( grc-koi, Ἀνδρέᾱς, Andréās ; la, Andrēās ; , syc, ܐܰܢܕ݁ܪܶܐܘܳܣ, ʾAnd’reʾwās), also called Saint Andrew, was an apostle of Jesus according to the New Testament. He is the brother of Simon Pete ...
,[ The Church is now part of the Hemingby Group of the Horncastle Deanery and seats around 120."Fulletby P C C"]
, Diocese of Lincoln
The Diocese of Lincoln forms part of the Province of Canterbury in England. The present diocese covers the ceremonial county of Lincolnshire.
History
The diocese traces its roots in an unbroken line to the Pre-Reformation Diocese of Leices ...
. Retrieved 25 June 2013
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Villages in Lincolnshire
Civil parishes in Lincolnshire
East Lindsey District