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Kirkby on Bain is a village and
To the north stretches the shallow glacial valley of the River Bain. Along the valley floor and flood plain the land is largely pastoral farmland used for rearing cattle and sheep, whilst further away from the river the land is more arable.
To the south along the valley are sand and gravel pits, many of them now long disused and some transformed into Kirkby Gravel Pits Nature Reserve, which is managed by Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust. The nature reserve is very biodiverse, and is one of very few inland sites in the county which have been visited by
To the west are Kirkby and Roughton Moors; a landscape once dominated by Lowland Heath now restricted to Fox Hill, and beyond is Ostler's Plantation, a pine woodland owned by the
Kirkby on Bain Village Website
Kirkby Gravel Pits
Kirkby Moor
{{authority control Villages in Lincolnshire Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Lincolnshire Civil parishes in Lincolnshire East Lindsey District
civil parish
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in the East Lindsey
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district
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of Lincolnshire
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, England
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. It lies on the River Bain
The River Bain is a river in Lincolnshire, England, and a tributary of the River Witham.
The Bain rises in the Lincolnshire Wolds at Ludford,J. N. Clarke, (1990), ''The Horncastle and Tattershall Canal'', Oakwood Press, a village on The Vikin ...
between Horncastle
Horncastle is a town and civil parish in the East Lindsey district in Lincolnshire, east of Lincoln. Its population was 6,815 at the 2011 census and estimated at 7,123 in 2019. A section of the ancient Roman walls remains.
History Romans
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and Coningsby, and just west of the A153 road
The A153 is a non-primary A road entirely in Lincolnshire in the east of England.
Route description
The A153 starts at the T-junction with the A607 at Honington and heads east to Sleaford, passing a crossroads with the B6403 - the Roma ...
. Close to the north is the village of Haltham
Haltham is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 Census was 122. It is situated south from the town of Horncastle, and on the east bank of the River Bain ...
.
History
Formerly known as Kirkby Super Bain, the name comes from the Old Norse ''kîrkĵu + býr'' (Church settlement), with the village dating back to at least theViking Age
The Viking Age () was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonizing, conquest, and trading throughout Europe and reached North America. It followed the Migration Period and the Ger ...
.
Ebrington Arms
The villagepublic house
A pub (short for public house) is a kind of drinking establishment which is licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises. The term ''public house'' first appeared in the United Kingdom in late 17th century, and was ...
is the Ebrington Arms on Main Street which dates back to at least the 16th Century. It was popular with airmen from the nearby RAF Woodhall Spa famed for its links with the 617 Squadron Dambusters.
St. Mary's Church
Theparish church
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is dedicated to St Mary, and is in the Bain Valley Group of churches. It dates back to Norman times, and the parish records to 1562. The church was largely rebuilt in 1802 and expanded in 1879–82.
Notable residents
*Ethel Major
Ethel Lillie Major (189219 December 1934) was a British murderer. She was the only woman to be hanged at Hull Prison. She was known as the Corned Beef Killer.
Life
Ethel Lillie Brown was the daughter of a Lincolnshire gamekeeper on the estate of ...
the Corned Beef Killer and her victim, her husband, Arthur Major.
*Abigail Tarttelin
Abigail Jane Kathryn Tarttelin (born 13 October 1987) is an English novelist and actress. Her second book, ''Golden Boy'', was described as a "dazzling debut" by Oprah's Book Club. Published in 2013, the book was translated into several languag ...
, award-winning author was born in Lincolnshire and attended the village school
Geography
Kirkby on Bain lies within the glacial Bain Valley at the confluence of River Bain and Haltham Beck. The Bain was canalised into the Horncastle Canal in the 1790s with the Old Course now little more than a stream in many places and dry in others.North
To the north stretches the shallow glacial valley of the River Bain. Along the valley floor and flood plain the land is largely pastoral farmland used for rearing cattle and sheep, whilst further away from the river the land is more arable.
South
To the south along the valley are sand and gravel pits, many of them now long disused and some transformed into Kirkby Gravel Pits Nature Reserve, which is managed by Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust. The nature reserve is very biodiverse, and is one of very few inland sites in the county which have been visited by Eurasian spoonbill
The Eurasian spoonbill (''Platalea leucorodia''), or common spoonbill, is a wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family Threskiornithidae. The genus name ''Platalea'' is from Latin and means "broad", referring to the distinctive shape of the b ...
.
East
West
To the west are Kirkby and Roughton Moors; a landscape once dominated by Lowland Heath now restricted to Fox Hill, and beyond is Ostler's Plantation, a pine woodland owned by the Forestry Commission
The Forestry Commission is a non-ministerial government department responsible for the management of publicly owned forests and the regulation of both public and private forestry in England.
The Forestry Commission was previously also respon ...
. In this landscape can be found Kirkby Moor and Moor Farm Nature Reserves, both SSSIs, and soon to be joined by the former airfield of RAF Woodhall Spa purchased by the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust in September 2014.
References
External links
*Kirkby on Bain Village Website
Kirkby Gravel Pits
Kirkby Moor
{{authority control Villages in Lincolnshire Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Lincolnshire Civil parishes in Lincolnshire East Lindsey District