North Kyme 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 authorit ...

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 b ...

district of

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, England. The civil parish had a population of 431 at the 2011 census. It is situated on the

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, and south-east of

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. North Kyme has a church dedicated to

Saint Luke Luke the Evangelist (Latin: '' Lucas''; grc, Λουκᾶς, '' Loukâs''; he, לוקאס, ''Lūqās''; arc, /ܠܘܩܐ לוקא, ''Lūqā’; Ge'ez: ሉቃስ'') is one of the Four Evangelists—the four traditionally ascribed authors of t ...

, which was built in 1877 of red brick to a design by Drury and Mortimer, and is a Grade II

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. It replaced an earlier church which had been pulled down during the

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. The village cross dates from the 14th century and is Grade II listed, and also a

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. It was restored in the 1820s. North Kyme Primary School opened in 1866, and was leased to the North Kyme School Board when it formed in 1879. Fire destroyed the wooden buildings of the junior and senior classrooms on 20 May 1952, but the school survived until 2005, when it closed. The village has a

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, The Plough Inn, and a village hall.

References

External links

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North Kyme village website
{{authority control North Kesteven District Villages in Lincolnshire Civil parishes in Lincolnshire