Kirkby Underwood is a village and

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in the South Kesteven

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Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a Counties of England, 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-we ...

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

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

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listed Anglican 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 Group of the Deanery of

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