Kirmington is a village in

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, England. It is part of the

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of Kirmington and Croxton. From the 2011 census the village became a civil parish in its own name. Kirmington is situated just north from the

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, west from Immingham and east from

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. Less than to the west is

Humberside International Airport Humberside Airport is an international airport at Kirmington in the Borough of North Lincolnshire, England, from three large settlements: Grimsby (east), Hull (north) and Scunthorpe (west), on the A18, the latter two places reached by lon ...

, the former Second World War station, RAF Kirmington. Kirmington's recorded population in the 2001 Census was 337, increasing to 365 in the 2011 Census. The village

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listed Anglican church is dedicated to St Helena. The church is in

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and Decorated style, with

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and

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, and a 12th-century

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. In 1838 a wooden

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covered in copper was added. The church was

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in 1859 by

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, who rebuilt both

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s and re-roofed the nave.''

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of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull'' 1885, p. 504 St Helena's is part of the Brocklesby Park Group of the

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of Yarborough. St Helena was the mother of the Roman Emperor

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. A Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built in 1835, rebuilt in 1885, and was closed in 1976. The village school is Kirmington St Helena's Church of England Primary school, built in the 19th century, and extended, with additional facilities for pre-school children, in 2007. Kirmington is twinned with Terbregge, in the Netherlands. This relationship commemorates Operation Manna, in which planes from RAF Kirmington dropped 3,000 food parcels in April and May 1945.

Humberside Airport

RAF Kirmington was a Class A airfield of the

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. Construction began in 1941, and the airfield was opened for use by

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in summer 1942. Closed in 1953, it was used for agricultural flying until being converted for commercial use by

Lindsey County Council Lindsey County Council was the county council of Parts of Lindsey in the east of England. It came into its powers on 1 April 1889 and was abolished on 1 April 1974. The county council was initially based at the County Hall, Lincoln Castle and then ...

. It opened as Humberside Airport in March 1974.

Eastern Airways Eastern Airways, legally incorporated as ''Air Kilroe Limited'', is a British regional airline whose head office is at Humberside Airport near the village of Kirmington, North Lincolnshire, England. It operates domestic, international and p ...

has its head office, Schiphol House, at Humberside Airport.

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External links

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"Kirmington Church of England Primary School"
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