Doddington is a village in the
civil parish
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of
Doddington and Whisby, in the
North Kesteven district of
Lincolnshire
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, England. The population of the civil parish of "Doddington and Whisby" at the 2011 census was 319. The parish of Doddington and Whisby lies west of
Lincoln, to the north of the
A46 road, and is bounded to its west by
Nottinghamshire
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. It includes the hamlet of
Whisby, and parts of the
Whisby Moor Nature Reserve.
In 1921 the parish of Doddington had a population of 128. On 1 April 1931 the parish was abolished and merged with Whisby to form "Doddington and Whisby".
In the
Domesday Book
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of 1086, Doddington is written as "Dodingtone", in the
Hundred
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In mathematics
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of Graffoe, in
Kesteven. It held 21 households, 14
villagers, 6 smallholders, a church with priest, and 4
ploughlands. Before the
Conquest,
lordship
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was held by Aelric son of Mergeat; after, the abbey of
Westminster St Peter became Lord and
Tenant-in-chief.
Doddington's
Grade II listed parish church is dedicated to
St Peter. The church was rebuilt in 1771 but retained its
Early English font
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For instance, the typeface Bauer Bodoni (shown in the figure) includes fonts " Roman" (or "regul ...
;
[Cox, J. Charles (1916) ''Lincolnshire'' p.117; Methuen & Co. Ltd] the rebuilding was under the auspices of
Lord Delaval.
['' Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull'' 1885, p.378] Pevsner notes that the architects, Thomas and William Lumby, retained and copied north
aisle
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details from the previous
Decorated building, and that the church holds a c.1569
chalice, a 1670 alms basin, a 1706
flagon by John Bodington, and a 1706
paten by William Fawdery.
[ Pevsner, Nikolaus; Harris, John; ''The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire'' pp.514, 515; Penguin, (1964); revised by Nicholas Antram (1989), Yale University Press. ]
John 'Jack' Delaval (1756-1775), the last male heir of the Delaval family, died aged nineteen and was buried in St Peter's Doddington. Reportedly the church interior was painted black for the funeral.
Other listed structures include farm houses, cottages and occupational buildings.
Within the village is the
Grade I listed
Elizabethan house,
Doddington Hall, a former seat of the
Northumbrian Delaval family.
"Doddington Hall"
Heritage Educational Outreach Trust. Retrieved 21 June 2011 The house is E-plan, and surmounted by three octagonal brick turrets with leaded cupola
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The word derives, via Ital ...
s.[
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References
External links
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Doddington (with Whisby)
Genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 7 April 2013
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Villages in Lincolnshire
Former civil parishes in Lincolnshire
North Kesteven District