Cammeringham Explained

Country:England
Static Image:St.Michael's church, Cammeringham, Lincs. - geograph.org.uk - 64917.jpg
Static Image Width:240px
Static Image Caption:Church of St Michael, Cammeringham
Coordinates:53.3279°N -0.5778°W
Official Name:Cammeringham
Population:127
Population Ref:(2011)
Shire District:West Lindsey
Shire County:Lincolnshire
Region:East Midlands
Constituency Westminster:Gainsborough
Post Town:Lincoln
Postcode District:LN1
Postcode Area:LN
Os Grid Reference:SK948821
London Distance Mi:120
London Direction:S

Cammeringham is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated 6miles north of Lincoln, and just off the A15 road near RAF Scampton. According to the 2001 census the village had a population of 123, increasing slightly to 127 at the 2011 census.[1]

Cammeringham Grade II* listed Anglican church is dedicated to St Michael. 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 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]

John de Bothby, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, who died in about 1383, is recorded as owning a manor at Cammeringham.

RAF Ingham was renamed RAF Cammeringham in 1944. The airfield is now disused and derelict.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Civil parish population 2011. 25 April 2016. Office for National Statistics. Neighbourhood Statistics.
  2. Cox, J. Charles (1916) Lincolnshire p. 94; Methuen & Co. Ltd