__NOTOC__ Great Humby is a hamlet in the South Kesteven

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, England. It lies in the

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Ropsley and Humby Ropsley and Humby is a civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. According to the 2001 Census it had a population of 808, increasing to 816 at the 2011 census. The parish consists of the small villages of Ropsley ...

, east from

Grantham Grantham () is a market and industrial town in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, situated on the banks of the River Witham and bounded to the west by the A1 road. It lies some 23 miles (37 km) south of the Lincoln and ...

, south-east from Ropsley and south from the A52.

Little Humby Little Humby or Humby is a hamlet in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies in the civil parish of Ropsley and Humby, east from Grantham, south-east from Ropsley and south from the A52 road. Great Humby, a smaller h ...

, a larger hamlet, is to the north. It is in the civil parish of Ropsley and Humby.

History

In the '' Domesday'' account Humby was written as "Humbi". It had 1 villager, 1

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and 15 freemen. In 1086 it was in the manor of Old Somerby, the

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being

Rainald Rainald is a name of a number of historical persons listed in the Domesday Book.

, and the

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, Walter of Aincourt. Before 1232 the manor had been in possession of Thomas de Somerby, after which it passed to William de Paris. The lawyer Richard Brownlow (1553–1638) purchased the manor of Belton, near Humby, with other estates, and Humby passed to his younger son

Sir William Brownlow, 1st Baronet Sir William Brownlow, 1st Baronet (c. 1595–1666) of Humby in Lincolnshire, was an English politician and barrister. Origins He was the second son of Richard Brownlow (1553–1638) of Belton in Lincolnshire, which manor he purchased, Chief Pr ...

(1595–1666), created a

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"of Humby" in 1641, whose grandson

Sir John Brownlow, 3rd Baronet Sir John Brownlow, 3rd Baronet (26 June 1659 – 16 July 1697) of Belton House near Grantham in Lincolnshire, was an English member of parliament. He built the grand mansion of Belton House, which survives today. He was born on 26 June 1659, ...

(1659–1697) appears to have deserted it on having inherited Belton form his great uncle, where he built the surviving grand mansion of Belton House which survives today. Earthworks of the manor's deserted medieval village and hall, with moats and fish ponds, are evident today."Great Gunby Hall"
''National Monuments Record'', English Heritage. Retrieved 25 April 2012 The 1885 ''

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'' recorded that Great Humby was a chapelry, the chapel consisting of a

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only. Previous to that date it was a private chapel of the Brownlow family, the former possessors of the nearby hall; foundations of that hall still existed in 1885. The chapel was restored in 1874 at the expense of J. Murgatroyd, the chief landowner.

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gives the date of St Anne's chapel restoration, to an ashlar building with

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, as 1876, following a rebuild in 1682 during the life of Sir William Brownlow. An even earlier chapel at Great Humby was extant in 1470. Next to the chapel stood Great Humby Hall. Built in the 13th century it became a larger hall by the 17th, the probable date it was pulled down.

Community

The Chapel of St Anne is in the

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of The North Beltisloe Group of parishes, of the Deanery of

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.

in the Diocese of Lincoln. From 2006 to 2011 the incumbent was The Revd Richard Ireson."North Beltisloe Group Council Report for PCC AGMs."
Boothby.org.uk. PDF download required. Retrieved 14 May 2012 The village has a population of about 15 people, and a turkey farm. Great Humby is surrounded by farmland, most of the village itself being a farm.

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