| Burwell | |
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 Burwell Buttercross | |
 The redundantchurch of St Michael | |
  Burwell Location withinLincolnshire | |
| Population | 214 (Including Maidenwell, Muckton and Ruckland. 2011)[1] |
| OS grid reference | TF354797 |
| • London | 125 mi (201 km) S |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Louth |
| Postcode district | LN11 |
| Police | Lincolnshire |
| Fire | Lincolnshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
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Burwell is a small village andCivil parish in theEast Lindsey district ofLincolnshire, England.[2] It is situated on theA16 road, and north fromSpilsby. The village covers approximately 2,200acres (8.9 km2).
Now a village, Burwell was a medieval market town.[3]Cropmarks indicated the extent of the settlement.[4]
Burwell Priory, which once stood here, was aBenedictine monastery founded at some point before 1110 by Ansgot of Burwell.[5] It was analien priory belonging toGrande-Sauve Abbey[6] inAquitaine. It was dissolved in 1427 and sold to the college ofTattershall,[5][7] along with its chapels atAuthorpe,Carlton,Muckton, andWalmgate, and other lands around Burwell.[3][8]
Themanor house, Burwell Hall, was in Burwell Park, and was built in 1760 for Matthew Lister. It was demolished in 1958, and only the stables remain.[9] The manor itself was previously held by Henry Percy, Duke of Northumberland; John, Duke of Bedford; Ralf, Lord Treasurer Cromwell; and Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk.[3][10][11]
Theparish church of Saint Michael, became redundant on 13 May 1981 and was taken over by theRedundant Churches Fund (now TheChurches Conservation Trust) on 27 October 1982. It is Grade Ilisted.[12] The village also had chapels of theWesleyan Methodists andUnited Reformed churches, which merged in 1988 making the Wesleyan building redundant.[13] The combined church has since closed.
Burwell District Council School was built in 1825 as aNational School. It closed in December 1941 with only eleven children on the roll.[14]
The No. 8 bus service operated by Hunts coaches connects Burwell to Alford and Louth on a Wednesday[15]
Burwellbuttercross was converted into adovecote and is now the village hall. Dating from the beginning of the seventeenth century with later alterations,[16] it is a Grade IIlisted building.
The village is part of theecclesiastical parish of Legbourne, based at All Saints church in Legbourne.
There is onepublic house in the village, the Stags Head which is now closed down.
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