Westborough and Dry Doddington is a

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-west of South Kesteven in the county of

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. The population of the civil parish was 335 at the 2001 census increasing to 365 at the 2011 census.

Geography

It comprises the two villages of

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and

Dry Doddington Dry Doddington is a small village in the north-west of the South Kesteven Non-metropolitan district, district of Lincolnshire, England within the civil parish of Westborough and Dry Doddington. It is situated approximately south-east from Newar ...

, to the north. The parish is mostly between Long Bennington and the East Coast Main Line. To the west, the parish follows the

River Witham The River Witham is a river almost entirely in the county of Lincolnshire in the east of England. It rises south of Grantham close to South Witham at , passes through the centre of Grantham (where it may be closely followed using the Riversi ...

next to Long Bennington parish then follows the east side of the A1, crossing ''Doddington Lane''. Passing through Holmes Farm it reaches the Nottinghamshire boundary a few hundred metres east o
Shire Bridge
on the A1. The parish boundary, with

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, becomes the county and South Kesteven boundary for around three hundred metres, then follows a hedge south-east to the south of Claypole Mill Farm, where it crosses the River Witham. I
crosses
the road to Claypole and at Long Plantation near a mobile phon
mast
it crosses the East Coast Main Line. To the north-east of Littlegates Farm it follows a drain southwards to north of where it crosses th
ECML
It follows a drain to the south-west on the eastern edge of the NG23 postcode. It follows the drain southwards from here for two hundred metres to the River Witham which it follows to Long Bennington, being crossed twice by the

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at Westborough and Long Bennington.

History

The parish began as the religious parish of All Saints at Westborough, with a chapel at Dry Doddington. The division between the two religious parishes follows ''Doddington Lane'' to the A1.

References

External links

* * *{{cite web, url=http://www.pastscape.org.uk/SearchResults.aspx?rational=a&type=&class1=None&period=None&county=1307988&district=577593&parish=97060&place=&recordsperpage=60&source=text&sort=2&rtype=&rnumber=&typeselect=c, title=all 52 records for the parish, work=PastScape, publisher=English Heritage, accessdate=13 August 2013 South Kesteven District Civil parishes in Lincolnshire