Gunby is a village and former

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 ...

, now in the parish of

Gunby and Stainby Gunby and Stainby is a civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. According to the 2001 Census it had a population of 141, falling to 136 at the 2011 census. It includes the hamlets of Gunby and Stainby. For administ ...

, in the

South Kesteven South Kesteven is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in Lincolnshire, England, forming part of the traditional Kesteven division of the county. Its council is based in Grantham. The district also includes the towns of Bourne, ...

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Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (), abbreviated ''Lincs'', is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber regions of England. It is bordered by the East Riding of Yorkshire across the Humber estuary to th ...

, England. It is situated close to the borders with

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and

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, and south from

Grantham Grantham () is a market town and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, situated on the banks of the River Witham and bounded to the west by the A1 road (Great Britain), A1 road. It lies south of Lincoln, England ...

, and west from the

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. In 1921 the parish had a population of 119. On 1 April 1931 the parish was abolished and merged with

Stainby __NOTOC__ Stainby is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Gunby and Stainby, in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated west from the A1 road, east from the Viking Way and the Leicestershire bord ...

to form "Gunby and Stainby". To th
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North Witham North Witham is a small village and nominally a civil parish in South Kesteven, Lincolnshire, England. The village is located along the upper course of the River Witham 1.5 miles downstream (north) of South Witham, and approximately south f ...

, to the north,

, and to th
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Sewstern Sewstern is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Buckminster, in the Melton district of east Leicestershire, England. It lies just south of Buckminster, with which it shares a primary school, situated between the two villages ...

. The parish is administered as part of the ''Colsterworth district parishes'' grouped parish council. The village name derives from a "farmstead or village of a man called Gunni", from the

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person name, and 'by', a farmstead, village or settlement.Mills, Anthony David (2003); ''A Dictionary of British Place Names'', p. 216,

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, revised edition (2011). Gunby

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listed

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church is dedicated to

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. Of 15th-century origin, it was rebuilt by

Richard Coad Richard Coad (13 February 1825 – 1 November 1900) was a 19th-century Cornwall, Cornish architect.Perpendicular In geometry, two geometric objects are perpendicular if they intersect at right angles, i.e. at an angle of 90 degrees or π/2 radians. The condition of perpendicularity may be represented graphically using the '' perpendicular symbol'', � ...

tower remained.Cox, J. Charles (1916) ''Lincolnshire'' p. 149; Methuen & Co. Ltd Pevsner, Nikolaus; Harris, John; ''The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire'' pp. 558, 559; Penguin (1964); revised by Nicholas Antram in 1989, Yale University Press. The closest amenities are in

Colsterworth Colsterworth is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, less than half a mile (0.8 km) west of the A1 road (Great Britain), A1, about south of Grantham, and north-west of Stamford, Lincolnshire, ...

South Witham South Witham is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,533. It is situated south of Grantham, 10 miles east of Melton Mowbray and north of ...

and

Buckminster Buckminster is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish within the Melton (borough), Melton district of Leicestershire, England, which includes the two villages of Buckminster and Sewstern. The total population of the civil parish ...

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"St Nicholas Church"
Stnicholascenter.org {{authority control Villages in Lincolnshire South Kesteven District Former civil parishes in Lincolnshire

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