Gunby is a hamlet in the
South Kesteven district
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of
Lincolnshire
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 ...
, England. It is situated close to the borders with
Leicestershire and
Rutland, and south 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 ...
, and west from the
A1 road. It is in the
civil parish
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of
Gunby and Stainby Gunby and Stainby is a civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. According to the 2001 Census it had a population of 141, falling to 136 at the 2011 census. It includes the hamlets of Gunby and Stainby.
For administr ...
.Its most notable citizen is John Wearing
To th
eastis
North Witham, to the north,
Stainby
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Stainby is a hamlet in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated west from the A1 road, east from the Viking Way and the Leicestershire border, and south from Grantham.
Stainby is nominally in the civil ...
, and to th
west Sewstern. Gunby is nominally in the
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 authorit ...
of
Gunby and Stainby Gunby and Stainby is a civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. According to the 2001 Census it had a population of 141, falling to 136 at the 2011 census. It includes the hamlets of Gunby and Stainby.
For administr ...
, although the parish is now administered as part of the ''Colsterworth district parishes''.
Gunby had been a parish in its own right until 1931.
The village name derives from a "farmstead or village of a man called Gunni", from the
Old Scandinavian person name, and 'by', a farmstead, village or settlement.
[Mills, Anthony David (2003); ''A Dictionary of British Place Names'', p. 216, ]Oxford University Press
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, revised edition (2011).
Gunby
Grade II listed
Anglican church is dedicated to
St Nicholas. Of 15th-century origin, it was rebuilt by
Richard Coad in 1869, although the
Perpendicular
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tower remained.
[Cox, J. Charles (1916) ''Lincolnshire'' p. 149; Methuen & Co. Ltd]Pevsner, Nikolaus
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; Harris, John; ''The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire'' pp. 558, 559; Penguin (1964); revised by Nicholas Antram in 1989, Yale University Press.
The closest amenities are in
Colsterworth
Colsterworth is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, less than half a mile (0.8 km) west of the A1, about south of Grantham, and north-west of Stamford. The village with the hamlet of Woolsthorp ...
,
South Witham
South Witham is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,533. It is situated south of Grantham, 10 miles east of Melton Mowbray and 10 miles ...
and
Buckminster
Buckminster is a village and civil parish within the Melton district of Leicestershire, England, which includes the two villages of Buckminster and Sewstern. The total population of the civil parish was 356 at the 2011 census. It is on the ...
.
See also
*
Gunby in
East Lindsey.
References
External links
*
"St Nicholas Church" Stnicholascenter.org
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Villages in Lincolnshire
South Kesteven District
Former civil parishes in Lincolnshire