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Brocklesby

Village and civil parish in Lincolnshire, England

Summary

Village and civil parish in Lincolnshire, England

Field	Value
country	England
coordinates
map_type	Lincolnshire
official_name	Brocklesby
static_image_name	Church of All Saints, Brocklesby - geograph.org.uk - 109920.jpg
static_image_caption	All Saints' Church, Brocklesby
shire_district	West Lindsey
shire_county	Lincolnshire
region	East Midlands
constituency_westminster	Gainsborough
post_town	Grimsby
postcode_district	DN41
postcode_area	DN
os_grid_reference	TA143112
london_distance_mi	145
london_direction	S

Brocklesby is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated 1 mi south of Habrough, 4 mi south-west of Immingham, it is located close to the border of both North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire and is near Humberside International Airport. Its location makes it the most northerly village within the East Midlands region.

According to the 2001 Census, Brocklesby had a population of 124. At the 2011 census, the population was listed in the civil parish of Keelby.

The parish includes the settlement of Limber Parva (or Little Limber), which lies 1.5 mi to the south-west, and is the site of a deserted medieval village, defined by earthworks and crop marks of crofts, hollow ways and rectilinear enclosures.

Newsham Abbey was located to the north of the village in the hamlet of Newsham, now part of the Brocklesby civil parish.

Brocklesby had a railway station until the 1990s, and it was closed. The station building and platforms are now a private residence, with the main railway lines still passing through it. The nearest railway station in current use is at Habrough.

Brocklesby Hall

Main article: Brocklesby Hall

The Grade I listed Brocklesby Hall ( 53°35'11.44"N 0°17'0.09"W ) is a large country house standing in the 27,000 acre (113 square kilometre) Brocklesby Park Estate. It probably dates from the 16th century, but was altered before 1708 and remodelled circa 1730. It was severely fire damaged in 1898, restored by the architect Sir Reginald Blomfield, and then reduced in size in the 20th century by the architect Claud Phillimore. It is built of brick in 3 storeys to a U-shaped floor plan with a 9-bay frontage. The 1898 fire and Phillimore's renovations destroyed most of the original interior features.

The Pelham family originally moved to Lincolnshire in 1565, and the property has descended in the family to Charles Pelham, the 8th and current Earl of Yarborough.

The estate is primarily agricultural with a substantial acreage of woodland. The 1000-acre Park and woodlands were laid out in the 1770s by Capability Brown for Charles Anderson-Pelham, 1st Baron Yarborough and contain a significant number of (43) listed architectural features.

The Grade I listed Anglican parish church, dedicated to All Saints, stands in the park. The church holds memorials to the Pelham family, particularly Charles Pelham, Lord Worsley, who was killed during the First World War.

Also in Brocklesby Park is the Pelham Mausoleum, built in 1787 by James Wyatt for Charles Anderson-Pelham, 1st Baron Yarborough.

The Holgate Monument, created in 1785 by James Wyatt, is a Grade I listed memorial to Charles Anderson-Pelham, 1st Baron Yarborough's friend George Holgate, in the form of a triangular pedestal supported on three tortoises and topped by an urn.

The Hunt kennels and house are Grade I listed, as is the Newsham Bridge and the Hermitage.

Community

The ecclesiastical parish is part of the Brocklesby Park group of parishes in the Deanery of Yarborough.

Local democracy is run as a Parish meeting.

References

"Brocklesby". Ordnance survey.
"Statistics about Brocklesby, West Lindsey". Lincolnshire research observatory.
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"Newsham Priory". Victoria County History.
"Brocklesby (with Limber Parva)". [[Genuki]].org.uk.
[https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3237392 "First train through Brocklesby Station"], Geograph.org.uk. Retrieved 22 October 2013
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"Brocklesby Estate".
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[http://homepage.ntlworld.com/peter.fairweather/docs/Brocklesby.htm "All Saints Church, Brocklesby and the Church of St. Peter, Great Limber"] {{webarchive. link. (15 June 2007 , ntlworld.com/peter.fairweather. Retrieved 3 July 2011)
"Pelham Mausoleum".
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"Our Parishes". Brocklesby park group.
"Brocklesby DCC". Diocese of Lincoln.
"List of parish meetings". West Lindsey district council.

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