| Hemingby | |
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 St Margaret's Church, Hemingby | |
  Hemingby Location withinLincolnshire | |
| Population | 232 (2011)[1] |
| OS grid reference | TF238744 |
| • London | 120 mi (190 km) S |
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| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | HORNCASTLE |
| Postcode district | LN9 |
| Dialling code | 01507 |
| Police | Lincolnshire |
| Fire | Lincolnshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
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Hemingby is adispersed village andcivil parish in theEast Lindseydistrict ofLincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately 3 miles (5 km) north from themarket town ofHorncastle and just west from the junction of the B1225 andA158 roads. It is surrounded by the villages ofBaumber,Goulceby andWest Ashby. TheRiver Bain and itstributary, the HemingbyBeck, flow through the village.
HemingbyGrade II listedAnglican parish church is dedicated toSt. Margaret.[2] Originating in the 14th century it was rebuilt in 1764, and again in 1895.[3]
In 1885Kelly's noted that one of the principal landowners wasEarl Manvers. The parish was of 2,527 acres (10 km2) and chief agricultural production was of barley and turnips. A then reported 1859Wesleyan Methodist chapel building still exists.[4] A free school was founded in 1727 by Jane Lady Dymoke; her endowment provided for the employment of a school master and mistress, and for the clothing and apprenticeship of school children. She also established fouralmshouses for poor widows;[5] these are today listed buildings.[6] Further listed buildings are the late 18th-century Rookery cottage,[7] and the mid-18th-century Old Rectory[8] with its early 19th-century coach house.[9]
The Methodist chapel existed as such until 1978, the building being converted to a private house in 2007.[citation needed]
The village Coach and Horsespublic house is a formercoaching inn on the oldLouth toLincoln coaching route.[citation needed]
On 18 April 2007 Radio Lincolnshire briefly changed its name to BBC Radio Hemingby for a day, and broadcast from the village.[10]
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