Elkington is a

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in the

East Lindsey East Lindsey is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in Lincolnshire, England. Its council is based in Horncastle and the largest town is Skegness. Other towns include Alford, Lincolnshire, Alford, Burgh le Marsh, Coningsby, L ...

district of

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 comprises the village of South Elkington, and the hamlets of North Elkington, Boswell, and Thorpe, and is situated approximately north-west from the

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South Elkington

The parish church is a Grade II*

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dedicated to

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, built using

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, and

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, and dating from the 13th century, with a 15th-century

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. The

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was rebuilt in 1843, and the

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in 1873. The base and part of the shaft of a scheduled stone cross are in the churchyard. The cross is medieval in date and is constructed of limestone. Born in South Elkington was racing driver of the 1930s and 1940s, Charles Brackenbury. He operated a garage close to Brooklands Racetrack.

North Elkington

The Grade II listed former parish church (now closed) was dedicated to Saint Helen and built 1851-52 and by S. S. Teulon in

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. Built into both the side walls of the

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are 13th-century coffin lid fragments. It has been sold and is now in private ownership.

Boswell

Boswell has a scheduled

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, north of "Cocked Hat Plantation".

Thorpe

Thorpe Hall, in Thorpe hamlet, is a Grade II* listed Country House. The Hall was built in 1584 for Sir John Bolle who lived there until his death in 1606 and is buried in Haugh Church. A 17th-century pigeoncote at Thorpe Hall is also Grade II listed, as is an 18th-century wrought iron gateway. From 1895 to 1906 Thorpe Hall was owned by Captain Julius Tennyson, nephew of the Poet Laureate,

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. Captain Langston Brackenbury, MP for Louth, bought the Hall in 1906 and lived there until 1920. In the Second World War, Thorpe Hall housed evacuees and was later requisitioned as an Army Officers' Mess. After the war it was a Diocesan healing centre. Later it was home to Lady Evelyn Patrick, daughter of the 3rd

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* {{Coord, 53.394052, N, 0.067918, W, display=inline Civil parishes in Lincolnshire East Lindsey District