Kirkby Underwood 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 ...

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, 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 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 ...

and west from the main A15 trunk road. To the east is

Rippingale Rippingale is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish was 929 at the 2011 census. The village is situated on the A15 road, about north from Bourne. Rippingale is ...

and the

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. Directly to the south is the hamlet of Stainfield, and to the west,

Hawthorpe __NOTOC__ Irnham is a village and civil parish in South Kesteven, Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately south-east from Grantham. To the north is Ingoldsby and to the south-west, Corby Glen. The village is on a high limeston ...

. Kirkby Underwood

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listed

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church is dedicated to St. Mary and All Saints. In 1885 ''

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'' described the church as in

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style, with

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and south

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, and a

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containing three bells. It was in a "very ruinous state". The

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dated from 1569.''Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull'' 1885, p. 503 The

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is part of The Ringstone in

Aveland Aveland was a Wapentake of Kesteven from the time of the Danelaw until the Local Government Act 1888. Its meeting place was The Aveland at in the parish of Aslackby. Origins Aveland was probably established as an administrative unit soon after ...

Group of the

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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.

, Diosece of Lincoln. The vicar was the Revd Dr Lynda Pugh between 2012 and 2018. The incumbent is the Revd Neil Bullen. Between the village and Hawthorpe is Callan's Lane Wood, run by the

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. Near the wood are two radio masts and a BT microwave transmitter."Communications mast near Kirkby Underwood"
Geograph.org.uk. Retrieved 21 April 2012

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Homepages.which.net. Retrieved 21 April 2012
Kirkby Underwood on the BBC Domesday project
{{authority control Villages in Lincolnshire Civil parishes in Lincolnshire South Kesteven District