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Population
  
122 (2011)

Region
  
Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Shire county
  
UK parliament constituency
  
OS grid reference
  
TF247637

Country
  
Post town
  
Horncastle

District
  
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Haltham is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 122. It is situated 4 miles (6.4 km) south from the town of Horncastle, and on the east bank of the River Bain in the Lincolnshire Wolds, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

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Map of Haltham, Horncastle, UK

History

Haltham is listed in the 1086 Domesday Book as "Holtha", with 15 households, and King William I as Lord of the Manor.

Church

The parish church was dedicated to Saint Benedict, and is a Grade I listed building built of greenstone and red-brick dating from the 12th century, with restorations in 1881 and 1890. In 1964 Pevsner noted a chalice and flagon, dated 1765, by London silversmith Francis Crump. The church was closed by the Diocese of Lincoln in October 1977, and is now maintained by the Churches Conservation Trust.

In the churchyard is the base of a 14th-century cross which is Grade II listed and also a scheduled monument.

Geography

The village was served by the Marmion Arms public house, a half-timbered thatched building.

In 1885 Kelly's Directory recorded that agricultural production in the then 2,380 acres (9.6 km2) acre parish was chiefly wheat, oats and turnips, The 1881 population was 179.

References

Haltham Wikipedia


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