| Irnham | |
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 The Griffin Inn, Irnham | |
  Irnham Location withinLincolnshire | |
| Population | 206 |
| OS grid reference | TF024267 |
| • London | 90 mi (140 km) S |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Grantham |
| Postcode district | NG33 |
| Dialling code | 01476 |
| Police | Lincolnshire |
| Fire | Lincolnshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
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Irnham is a village andcivil parish inSouth Kesteven,Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately 10 miles (16 km) south-east fromGrantham. To the north isIngoldsby and to the south-west,Corby Glen. The village is on a high limestone ridge that forms part of the Kesteven Uplands.
The civil parish of Irnham includes the hamlets ofBulby andHawthorpe. The similar extentecclesiastical parish is Irnham, part of theBeltisloe rural deanery in theDiocese of Lincoln, and part of a Group which includesCorby Glen andSwayfield, sharing a single priest. Theparish church is dedicated toSt Andrew.
Irnham is listed as "Gerneham" in theDomesday Book of 1086. It was probably founded by anAnglo-Saxonthegn named Georna, hence Georna's Ham (or settlement). Scenes of 14th-century life in the village are depicted in theLuttrell Psalter.[1][2]
Irnham Hall was the ancient seat of the Paynells and from about 1200, theLuttrell family, Lords of Irnham until 1418.[3] The Manor then passed by marriage to the Hilton family and similarly in 1510 to the Thimbleby family, by whom the presentTudor house was built in about 1600.[4] In 1430, Godfrey Hilton, a knight, was residing in "Irenham".[5]Mary Thimelby was born at the hall in about 1618 and became a prioress.[6]
In 1853 Captain William Hervey Woodhouse (1823-1859)[7] bought the Hall, which had several further owners until purchased in 1901 by the present owners, theBenton Jones family. A fire in 1887 destroyed much of the interior.[8]
The villagealmshouses, built in 1712, are still in use.[9]
St Andrew's Church is lateNorman withPerpendicular additions, and washeavily restored in 1858, and again in 2006. It holds the tomb andEaster Sepulchre ofGeoffrey Luttrell, who commissioned theLuttrell Psalter, a celebrated medieval manuscript now in theBritish Library, in the early 14th century.[10]
The villagepublic house is the Griffin Inn on Bulby Road. Most other employment is in farming.
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