Osgodby 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. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

in the

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, England. The population of the civil parish, including Kingerby,

Kirkby Kirkby ( ) is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, England. The town, Historic counties of England, historically in Lancashire, has a size of is north of Huyton and north-east of Liverpool. The population in 2016 wa ...

and

Usselby Usselby is a hamlet in the civil parish of Osgodby, in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is approximately north-west from the town of Market Rasen. In 1931 the parish had a population of 54. On 1 April 1936 the parish was ...

, as well as West Rasen in its own civil parish, was 660 at the 2011 census. Osgodby is close to the A1103 and A46 roads, and north-west from the

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Market Rasen Market Rasen ( ) is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish within the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The River Rase runs through it east to west, approximately north-east from Lincoln, England, Lincoln, eas ...

. The parish contains the small villages of Kingerby, Kirkby cum Osgodby, Osgodby itself,

and the hamlet of Bishopbridge. To the north is

North Owersby North Owersby is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Owersby, in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, and about north from the town of Market Rasen. In 1866 North Owersby became a civil parish, on 1 April 1936 ...

. Nearby to the west is the north–south

River Ancholme The River Ancholme is a river in Lincolnshire, England, and a tributary of the River Humber, Humber. It rises at Ancholme Head, a spring just north of the village of Ingham, Lincolnshire, Ingham and immediately west of the Roman Road, Ermine S ...

. The population of the parish is 646.

History

At the time of ''

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'' the village consisted of 41 households. There are medieval settlement remains, including a moat, visible as earthworks and thought to be part of Tournay Manor which was established during the 14th century. In 1424 John Tournay was given as a gift land on the south side of Osgodby, but the principal residence of the family was at Caenby. During the Second World War there was an army camp at Osgodby, and 60 accommodation huts were dispersed within nearby woodland. One building remains at the junction of the A46 – A1103, function unknown, and where the woods border the A1103, Westwards from the A46, many of the foundations are still visible.

Bishopbridge

Bishopbridge is a hamlet at the western limit of the parish of Osgodby, on the A631 and is named after the bridge that crosses the River Ancholme at this point. The hamlet consists of a public house and a few farms and houses. The settlement marks the upper limit of the navigation of the Ancholme, which was created by the River Ancholme, Navigation and Drainage Act 1766 ( 7 Geo. 3. c. 98), which records the location as Bishop Brigys, in the ( 43 Geo. 3. c. ''64'' ) it has changed to Bishop Briggs. The navigation ends where there is a measurement

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at the

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that records the flow of the river. On the adjacent

River Rase The River Rase is a 16 mile (25 km) long tributary of the River Ancholme that flows through Lincolnshire, in the east of England. Course The source of the river is a series of springs known as Churn Water Heads, that occur on Bully Hill no ...

, another weir and gauging station measures the flow of that river. Both sites are listed as Bishopbridge.

References

External links

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Osgodby Parish Council

Osgodby Primary School

"Expressions in Osgodby"

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Lincolnshire
Statistics for the parish
{{authority control Villages in Lincolnshire Civil parishes in Lincolnshire West Lindsey District

History

Bishopbridge

See also

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