Cammeringham
Coordinates: 53°19′40″N 0°34′40″W / 53.327885°N 0.57774983°W
| Cammeringham | |
 St Michael's church, Cammeringham |
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 Cammeringham
Cammeringham shown within Lincolnshire |
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| OS grid reference | SK 94820 82161 |
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| District | West Lindsey |
| Shire county | Lincolnshire |
| Region | East Midlands |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Lincoln |
| Postcode district | LN1 |
| Police | Lincolnshire |
| Fire | Lincolnshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| EU Parliament | East Midlands |
| UK Parliament | Gainsborough |
| List of places: UK • England • Lincolnshire | |
Cammeringham is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies 6 miles north of Lincoln just off the A15 near to RAF Scampton. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 123.
Cammeringham Grade II* listed Anglican church is dedicated to St Michael.[1] St Michael's is a remnant of a much larger church; arches from the earlier building are embedded into its aisle wall, and the west doorway has a pre-Conquest knotwork sill. The graveyard holds ancient graves hollowed out of the rock.[2]
Within the parish was the Praemonstratensian Cammeringham Priory, founded by Richard de Haya about 1160 as an alien cell to the Abbey of Blanchelande in Normandy. The priory and its rights was sold in 1396 to the Cistercian Abbot of Hulton in Staffordshire.[2]
RAF Ingham was renamed RAF Cammeringham in 1944. The airfield is now disused and derelict.
[edit] References
- ^ "Church of St Michael and All Angels", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage; retrieved 10 July 2011
- ^ a b Cox, J. Charles (1916) Lincolnshire p. 94; Methuen & Co. Ltd
[edit] External links
- "Cammeringham", genuki.org.uk; retrieved 10 July 2011</ref>
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