Little Hale is a hamlet 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

North Kesteven North Kesteven is a local government district in Lincolnshire, England. The district is located to the east of Nottinghamshire, north-east of Leicestershire and south of the city of Lincoln. Its council, North Kesteven District Council, is bas ...

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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. It is situated south-east from the town of

Sleaford Sleaford is a market town and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. Centred on the former parish of New Sleaford, the modern boundaries and urban area include Quarrington, Lincolnshire, ...

, and directly south from the larger villages of

Great Hale __NOTOC__ Great Hale is a village and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 778. It is situated on the B1394 road, immediately south from Heckington and ...

and

Heckington Heckington is a village and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated between Sleaford and Swineshead Bridge, and south of the A17 road. Heckington, with 1,491 households, is one of the largest villa ...

. Adjacent villages include Burton Pedwardine, Great Hale and Helpringham. Little Hale, a village of approximately 60 houses, lies on the eastern western edge of the

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History

In 1885 ''

Kelly's Directory Kelly's Directory (or more formally, the Kelly's, Post Office and Harrod & Co Directory) was a trade directory in England that listed all businesses and tradespeople in a particular city or town, as well as a general directory of postal addresses o ...

'' described Little Hale as a

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with an 1881 population of 362, and land of some parts light

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, and some, clay. Chief crops grown were wheat, barley, oats, beans, seeds and turnips. The village contained a post office, and a National School for 130 children, with an average attendance of 90. The 3rd Marquess of Bristol was

Lord of the Manor Lord of the Manor is a title that, in Anglo-Saxon England, referred to the landholder of a rural estate. The lord enjoyed manorial rights (the rights to establish and occupy a residence, known as the manor house and demesne) as well as seig ...

. Little Hale commercial occupations at the time were twelve farmers, publicans at the Nags Head and Bowling Green

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s, two shopkeepers, a grocer & draper, a

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and a shoe maker. The settlement of Broadhurst existed south-east from Little Hale.''Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull'' 1885, p. 464 In 1933 ''Kelly's'' described a Little Hale township area of and of water, and a 1921 population of 264. Lord of the Manor was the 4th Marquess of Bristol MVO. No school was noted in the village. Little Hale commercial occupations were nineteen farmers, a wheelwright, two shopkeepers, one of whom ran the post office, and a publican at the Bowling Green public house. There was a bus service between the village and Sleaford. No mention was made of the settlement of Broadhurst.''Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire'' 1933, pp. 277,278

Governance

Little Hale was originally a township in Great Hale ancient parish in the

Kesteven The Parts of Kesteven ( or ) are a traditional division of Lincolnshire, England. This division had long had a separate county administration (quarter sessions), along with the two other Parts of Lincolnshire, Lindsey and Holland. Etymology Th ...

part of Lincolnshire. It was made a separate

in 1866. When a township, it was in Aswardhurn

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, and was in Sleaford poor law union and

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s.Youngs, F. A. (1991). pp. 243, 263. From 1894 to 1931 it was in

Sleaford Rural District Sleaford was a rural district in Lincolnshire, Kesteven, Parts of Kesteven, England, from 1894 to 1931. It was created by the Local Government Act 1894 based on the Sleaford rural sanitary district. In 1931, under a Local Government Act 1929, Co ...

, and from 1931 to 1974 it was in East Kesteven Rural District. Since 1974 it has been in

district. It was in the Southern Lincolnshire constituency for the United Kingdom parliament from 1832 to 1867, which changed its name to become the South Lincolnshire constituency in between 1867 and 1885, the North Kesteven constituency from 1885 to 1918, and from 1918 to 1997, it was in Grantham constituency.Youngs, F. A. (1991). pp. 244, 263. Since 1997, it has been in the Grantham and Stamford constituency.

Community

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* {{authority control Villages in Lincolnshire Civil parishes in Lincolnshire North Kesteven District