Roxby is a village in

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 ...

, England. It is situated approximately north from

Scunthorpe Scunthorpe () is an industrial town in Lincolnshire, England, and the county's third most populous settlement after Lincoln, England, Lincoln and Grimsby, with a population of 81,286 in 2021. It is the administrative centre and largest settleme ...

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

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and overlooks the

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

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Roxby cum Risby Roxby cum Risby is a civil parish forming part of the district of North Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 479. The main settlement is Roxby. Smaller settlements include Dragonby (), High Risby () a ...

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

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listed

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church is dedicated to

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

aisle An aisle is a linear space for walking with rows of non-walking spaces on both sides. Aisles with seating on both sides can be seen in airplanes, in buildings such as churches, cathedrals, synagogues, meeting halls, parliaments, courtrooms, ...

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

North Lindsey Light Railway The North Lindsey Light Railway (NLLR) was a light railway in North Lincolnshire. The line was worked from its opening in 1906 by the Great Central Railway and in 1923, on grouping, it passed to the London and North Eastern Railway. The railw ...

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