Haconby is a village and

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 authority ...

in the

South Kesteven South Kesteven is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in Lincolnshire, England, forming part of the traditional Kesteven division of the county. It covers Bourne, Lincolnshire, Bourne, Grantham, Market Deeping and Stamford, Li ...

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, Leicestershire ...

, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2001 census was 448 increasing to 532 at the 2011 census. It is situated on the western edge of the Lincolnshire

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, north from

Bourne Bourne may refer to: Places UK * Bourne, Lincolnshire, a town ** Bourne Abbey ** Bourne railway station * Bourne (electoral division), West Sussex * Bourne SSSI, Avon, a Site of Special Scientific Interest near Burrington, North Somerset * Bourne ...

History

The village name means Haakon's village. The village church is dedicated to St Andrew. On 27 February 2008 the parish church spire was damaged by the 2008 Lincolnshire earthquake. A former railway line passed north to south close to the east of the village - the

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branch of the Great Northern Railway, which closed to passengers in 1930 and to freight in 1964. A

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, King Street, (from

to just south of Ancaster) passes through the western part of the parish, just west of Stainfield. There was an Iron Age or Roman town near Stainfield. Stainfield Spa, to the west of the village, is a chalybeate spring discovered in 1720 by Dr Edward Greathead of

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Geography

Haconby is situated just off the A15. Two miles (3 km) to the west is Stainfield, part of the civil parish. To the south of the village is Hacconby Hall. The civil parish extends northwards to just north of the A15- B1177 junction, skirting the southern edge of Dunsby Hall Farm. The parish boundary extends due east, along the Hacconby Lode drain over Hacconby Fen, followin
Hacconby Drove
to the south. To the north is the parish of Dunsby and Dunsby Fen. It reaches the

South Forty-Foot Drain The South Forty-Foot Drain, also known as the Black Sluice Navigation, is the main channel for the land-drainage of the Black Sluice Level in the Lincolnshire Fens. It lies in eastern England between Guthram Gowt and the Black Sluice pumping ...

. The parish boundary (also with Pinchbeck and

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follows this drain for just under a mile south. It then follows Lane Dike due west whic
crosses
the

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just north of Cardyke Farm. The parish boundary crosses the A15 next to a transmitter and extends westwards to reach the north of Spring Wood, where it meets the large parish of

Edenham Edenham ( ) is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is approximately north-west of Bourne, and on the A151 road. While the civil parish is called 'Edenham', the parish council is called Eden ...

. Just south of Thorny Wood it meets the parish of

Dunsby Dunsby is a small village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of in Lincolnshire, England. It is north from Bourne, just east off the A15, and on the western edge of the Lincolnshire Fens. In 2001 it had a population of 141, reduc ...

. The parish boundary follows the southern edge of Dunsby Wood, crossing the Stainfield-

Kirkby Underwood Kirkby Underwood is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish was 200 at the 2001 census, increasing to 220 at the 2011 census. It is situated north from Bourne an ...

road just north o
Stainfield Spa

Community

There are no amenities in the village other than the local

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, the Hare and Hounds on West Road. The nearest post office and shops are in the adjacent village of

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to the south. The primary school closed in the 1970s. The civil parish covers the villages of Haconby and Stainfield. It is part of the Ringstone in Aveland group 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.

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. The vicar was the Revd Dr Lynda Pugh between 2012 and 2018. The incumbent is the Revd Neil Bullen. Local democracy is provided by ''Haconby and Stainfield Parish Council''.

References

External links

*
"Hacconby and Stainfield Parish Council"
Lincolnshire.gov.uk

''The villages around Bourne, Lincolnshire, England'', Homepages.which.net

''The villages around Bourne, Lincolnshire, England'', Homepages.which.net * {{authority control Villages in Lincolnshire Civil parishes in Lincolnshire South Kesteven District