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Hagworthingham

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Population
  
359 (2011)

Region
  
East Midlands

Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Shire county
  
Lincolnshire

UK parliament constituency
  
Louth and Horncastle

OS grid reference
  
TF344692

Country
  
England

Post town
  
Spilsby

District
  
East Lindsey

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Hagworthingham (often referred to locally as Hag) is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated on the A158, 5 miles (8 km) east of Horncastle and 4 miles (6 km) north-west of Spilsby.

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Map of Hagworthingham, Spilsby, UK

The place-name 'Hagworthingham' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Haberdingham and Hacberdingham. The name means 'village of the hawthorn homestead people'.

Hagworthingham church, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, was restored by James Fowler of Louth in 1859.

Thomas Drant, the clergyman and translator of Horace, was born in Hagworthingham.

The old rectory hagworthingham lincolnshire


References

Hagworthingham Wikipedia