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Coordinates: 53°15′58″N 0°29′16″W / 53.266167°N 0.487741°W
Nettleham 
All Saints' church
Nettleham
Nettleham shown within LincolnshirePopulation 6,514 (2001 Census) OS grid reference TF008754 District West Lindsey Shire county Lincolnshire Region East Midlands Country England Sovereign state United Kingdom Post town LINCOLN Postcode district LN2 Dialling code 01522 & 01673 Police Lincolnshire Fire Lincolnshire Ambulance East Midlands EU Parliament East Midlands UK Parliament Gainsborough List of places: UK • England • Lincolnshire Nettleham is a large village and civil parish within the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.
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Geography
It is located four miles north-east of the city of Lincoln between the A46 and A158, and has a total resident population of 6,514.[1]
Nettleham has won the "Best Kept Village Award" several times.[2]
and the centre of the village is a conservation area. Large modern housing estates surround the old village centre. Nettleham is also the location of the Lincolnshire Police headquarters to the west of the village near the A46. It was opened by the Queen in 1980. Nettleham's football team have twice played Aston Villa football club in friendlies. No other settlement shares Nettleham's name.
The parish boundary meets Greetwell on the A158 Horncastle/Wragby road. It follows the A15 Wragby Road into Lincoln for about 100 metres where it meets Lincoln, and skirts the edge of the housing estate (Glebe Park) next to the bypass; the Lincoln bypass (A158) from the A46 to the A158 is in the parish. The boundary crosses Nettleham Road (B1182, former A46), south of the bypass roundabout, and follows south of the A46 bypass for about 500 metres and meets Riseholme (south of the bypass). The bypass passes north-wards skirting the edge of the University of Lincoln's Riseholme College. 500 metres north of Nettleham Hall, it meets Grange de Lings, and borders this parish along a farm track until the A46, where it meets Scothern just north of Nettleham Heath Farm. It crosses Scothern Beck north of Skelton House Farm, passes south, and at Nettleham Beck it meets Sudbrooke, crossing Sudbrooke Lane east of Richmond Farm. North of Manor Farm, it meets Reepham on the A158 Roman road and follows the A158 to North Greetwell, where it meets Greetwell.
The parish includes an oil well owned by Star Energy, north of the A158 bypass which has been producing since 1985.
Administration
Nettleham forms part of the Gainsborough parliamentary constituency which is represented by Edward Leigh MP.
Since April 1974, Nettleham has formed part of the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire.
Twinning
Mulsanne, Pays de la Loire, north-west France. The sports pitch is called Mulsanne Park.
History
The now-demolished Bishop's Manor House at Nettleham was the property of Edith of Wessex, wife of Edward the Confessor and later Empress Matilda, daughter of Henry I of England, before passing into the possession of the Bishops of Lincoln, who enlarged it to create a Bishop's Palace appropriate to one of the country's most important Sees. On 7 February 1301 King Edward I of England was staying in the Bishop's Palace when he created his son Edward (later Edward II of England) as the first Prince of Wales. The building was damaged during the Lincolnshire Rising of 1536 and completely demolished by 1650, only traces of foundations remaining on the site now called Bishop's Palace Field.[3]
The parish church of All Saints dates from the Saxon period, with medieval and 19th century additions. It is in the benefice of Nettleham with Riseholme and Grange de Lings.[4] Village pubs are the Black Horse on Chapel Lane, the Plough on Church Street, and the White Hart on High Street.
The Royal Society for Nature Conservation (RSNC) was based on The Green. It gained its new name in 1981 from the Society for the Promotion of Nature Conservation (SPNC), and had been the Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves before 1976. The Nature Conservation Trusts became known as Wildlife Trusts. The organisation became known as The Wildlife Trusts in 1996 and has been based in Newark-on-Trent since 1999, being been based on Witham Park in Lincoln from 1990. The site became the home of the WATCH Trust for Environmental Conservation, but this also moved to Newark a few years ago.[5] The Wildlife Trusts had their junior section, known as Wildlife Warch, on Witham Park in Lincoln, until it moved to Newark. Newark is on the East Coast Main Line. In June 2004 the organisation became the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts (RSWT).
JCT Consultancy is based at Deepdale Enterprise Park, off Deepdale Lane (near the police HQ), which makes the much-used LINSIG software for traffic lights originated by Brian Simmonite.[6] It hosts courses on training in the traffic signal control industry.
Sport and recreation
Nettleham F.C. are members of the Lincolnshire League since their relegation from the Central Midlands League. There is also Nettleham C.C. who play in the Lincolnshire ECB League. Both teams play their home fixtures at Mulsanne Park, Nettleham.
Notable people
- Henry Holbeach, served as the last Prior and first Dean of Worcester - buried here
See also
References
- ^ United Kingdom Census 2001. "Nettleham CP (Parish)". neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk. http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadAreaSearch.do?a=7&c=Shaw+and+Crompton&d=16&i=1001&m=0&enc=1&areaSearchText=nettleham&areaSearchType=16&extendedList=true. Retrieved 2007-06-13.
- ^ Nettleham Parish Council. "Nettleham Parish Council". http://parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Nettleham/section.asp?docId=52185. Retrieved 2011-10-21.
- ^ English Heritage
- ^ Nettleham benefice (PDF)
- ^ Wildlife WATCH
- ^ JCT Consultancy
External links
- Village website
- Nettleham parish council
- The Nettleham Trail walk
- Nettleham medical practice
- CE Junior school
- Infants school
- Library
- Cricket club
- Tennis club
- Nettleham News
- Nettleham Parish Church
News items
Categories:- Villages in Lincolnshire
- Civil parishes in Lincolnshire
- West Lindsey
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