Redbourne is a village and

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in the

North Lincolnshire North Lincolnshire is a Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area with Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough status in Lincolnshire, England. At the 2011 United Kingdom census, 2011 Census, it had a population of 167,446. T ...

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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. The village is situated near the A15 road, and south from

Brigg Brigg (Wikipedia:IPA for English#Key, /'brɪg/) is a market town in North Lincolnshire, England, with a population of 5,076 in the United Kingdom Census 2001, 2001 UK census, the population increased to 5,626 at the 2011 census. The town lies ...

. According to the 2001 Census Redbourne had a population of 386, rising slightly to 400 at the 2011 census. The name Redbourne is derived from the Old English Name "Hredburna" meaning "reedy burn", a reference to a stream running through the village. Redbourne Church - geograph

The parish church of St Andrew was made redundant from the Church of England in 1978 and is now maintained by The

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. It is a Grade I

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. Although the church has 14th- and 15th-century origins, the bulk of the existing building is 18th-century and represents a Georgian Gothic style, using a mixture of squared and coursed rubble limestone with

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dressings. Its square tower is approximately high. The alterations of 1772–4 in the gothic style were by the Lincoln architects Thomas and Henry Lumby and the chapel on the south side of the chancel served as a

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for the family of the Dukes of St Albans.Antram N (revised), Pevsner N & Harris J, (1989), The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, Yale University Press. p. 608 The Red Lion Hotel

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on the

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dates from the 17th century. A conservation area was designated in August 1985 by the old

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and covers the historic village core but excludes the more recent residential developments on the periphery.

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* {{Authority control Villages in the Borough of North Lincolnshire Civil parishes in Lincolnshire