Roxby is a village in

North Lincolnshire North Lincolnshire is a unitary authority area in Lincolnshire, England, with a population of 167,446 in the 2011 census. The borough includes the towns of Scunthorpe, Brigg, Haxey, Crowle, Epworth, Bottesford, Kirton in Lindsey and Bar ...

, England. It is situated approximately north from

Scunthorpe Scunthorpe () is an industrial town and unparished area in the unitary authority of North Lincolnshire in Lincolnshire, England of which it is the main administrative centre. Scunthorpe had an estimated total population of 82,334 in 2016. A ...

and south-east from Winterton on the A1077. Roxby stands on a prominent part of the

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and overlooks the Humber Estuary. Roxby has fewer than 500 inhabitants, and forms part of the

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of Roxby cum Risby (where population details are included), which also includes the hamlet of Dragonby. Roxby

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listed Anglican church is dedicated to St Mary. The church, of 12th century origin with 14th century additions, is of Decorated style, and was restored and partly rebuilt in 1875 by James Fowler.Cox, J. Charles (1916) ''Lincolnshire'' p. 254; Methuen & Co. Ltd In 1719 a

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mosaic was discovered near to the church. Several attempts to excavate the mosaic were made but it was not until 1972 when it was accurately excavated and recorded by the curator of

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. Later excavations by the Humberside Archaeology Unit concluded that the mosaic was part of an

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d structure with the mosaic forming the flooring for a suite of rooms at one end of the villa which may have been up to 22 yards (20 m) wide and 55 yards (50 m) long. Although no railway line runs directly to Roxby, a major landfill site is situated a few miles away in a disused

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. This is served by the remnants of the

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over which trainloads of household rubbish were transported in containers from various locations in the

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area.

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* {{Lincolnshire, state=collapsed Villages in the Borough of North Lincolnshire