Static Image Name: | The Carpenter's Arms - geograph.org.uk - 200959.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | The Carpenters arms, Fenton |
Country: | England |
Official Name: | Fenton |
Map Alt: | Outline map of Lincolnshire, with Fenton as a red dot near the Nottinghamshire border. To the NW of Lincoln |
Coordinates: | 53.281°N -0.7354°W |
Population: | 297 |
Population Ref: | (2001[1]) |
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: | SK844767 |
London Distance Mi: | 125 |
London Direction: | S |
Type: | Village and civil parish |
Fenton is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.[2] It is situated 9miles north-west of Lincoln and 4miles west from Saxilby. The population of the civil parish was 297 at the 2001 census, increasing to 353 at the 2011 census.[3]
Fenton is a centre for the breeding of a local cattle variety, the Lincoln Reds. It is also a centre for fishing, being 1miles to the east the River Trent.
The ecclesiastical parish is Kettlethorpe with Fenton, part of the Saxilby Group of the Deanery of Corringham. The parish church is in the smaller village of Kettlethorpe 0.5miles to the south. The 2014 incumbent is Rev Canon Rhys Prosser.[4]
The village public house is the Carpenters Arms.