Nettleham
Encyclopedia
Nettleham is a large village and civil parish within the West Lindsey
district of Lincolnshire
, England
.
and A158
, and has a total resident population of 6,514.
Nettleham has won the "Best Kept Village Award" several times.
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.
which is represented by Edward Leigh
MP
.
Since April 1974, Nettleham has formed part of the West Lindsey
district of Lincolnshire
.
, Pays de la Loire
, north-west France. The sports pitch is called Mulsanne Park.
, 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.
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. 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. 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. It hosts courses on training in the traffic signal control industry.
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.
West Lindsey
West Lindsey is a local government district in Lincolnshire, England.-History:The district was formed on 1 April 1974, from the urban districts of Gainsborough, Market Rasen, along with Caistor Rural District, Gainsborough Rural District and Welton Rural District...
district of Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
.
Geography
It is located four miles north-east of the city of Lincoln between the A46A46 road
The A46 is an A road in England. It starts east of Bath, Somerset and ends in Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire, but it does not form a continuous route. Large portions of the old road have been lost, bypassed, or replaced by motorway development...
and A158
A158 road
The A158 road is a major tourist route that heads from Lincoln in the west to Skegness on the east coast. The road is located entirely in the county of Lincolnshire and is single carriageway for almost its entirety. The road is approximately long...
, and has a total resident population of 6,514.
Nettleham has won the "Best Kept Village Award" several times.
and the centre of the village is a conservation area
Conservation area
A conservation areas is a tract of land that has been awarded protected status in order to ensure that natural features, cultural heritage or biota are safeguarded...
. Large modern housing estates surround the old village centre. Nettleham is also the location of the Lincolnshire Police
Lincolnshire Police
Lincolnshire Police is the territorial police force covering the non-metropolitan county of Lincolnshire in the East Midlands of England. Despite the name, the force's area does not include North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire, which are covered by Humberside Police instead.In terms of...
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
Aston Villa F.C.
Aston Villa Football Club is an English professional association football club based in Witton, Birmingham. The club was founded in 1874 and have played at their current home ground, Villa Park, since 1897. Aston Villa were founder members of The Football League in 1888. They were also founder...
football club in friendlies. No other settlement shares Nettleham's name.
The parish boundary meets Greetwell
Greetwell
Greetwell is a village and civil parish about east of the city of Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England.The parish church is dedicated to All Saints and is a grade II* listed building built of limestone and dating from the 11th century, which was restored in the 19th century. Both the west tower and the...
on the A158
A158 road
The A158 road is a major tourist route that heads from Lincoln in the west to Skegness on the east coast. The road is located entirely in the county of Lincolnshire and is single carriageway for almost its entirety. The road is approximately long...
Horncastle/Wragby
Wragby
Wragby is a small town and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is located approximately north-west from Horncastle and about north east of the city of Lincoln.- History :...
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
University of Lincoln
The University of Lincoln is an English university founded in 1992, with origins tracing back to the foundation and association with the Hull School of Art 1861....
's Riseholme College. 500 metres north of Nettleham Hall, it meets Grange de Lings
Grange de Lings
Grange de Lings is a civil parish in West Lindsey in north-west Lincolnshire.-Geography:Grange de Lings is often quoted as the address for the Lincolnshire Showground, just off the west of the A15, but the parish actually lies entirely east of the A15, and the Lincolnshire Showground is in the...
, and borders this parish along a farm track until the A46, where it meets Scothern
Scothern
Scothern is a small village in West Lindsey, Lincolnshire, England, situated north east of Lincoln, with approximately 1,000 inhabitants. Although neighbouring villages such as Sudbrooke, Dunholme, Nettleham and Welton have all been substantially redeveloped over recent years, with the addition...
just north of Nettleham Heath Farm. It crosses Scothern Beck north of Skelton House Farm, passes south, and at Nettleham Beck it meets Sudbrooke
Sudbrooke
Sudbrooke is a small village in Lincolnshire, located approximately six miles north-east of Lincoln in England.Sudbrooke lies just off the A158 Lincoln - Skegness road, and although the original heart of the village near the church has existed for centuries, the main development as a commuter...
, crossing Sudbrooke Lane east of Richmond Farm. North of Manor Farm, it meets Reepham
Reepham
Reepham may refer to:*Reepham, Lincolnshire*Reepham, Norfolk*Reepham railway station...
on the A158 Roman road
Roman road
The Roman roads were a vital part of the development of the Roman state, from about 500 BC through the expansion during the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. Roman roads enabled the Romans to move armies and trade goods and to communicate. The Roman road system spanned more than 400,000 km...
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 constituencyGainsborough (UK Parliament constituency)
Gainsborough is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election....
which is represented by Edward Leigh
Edward Leigh
Edward Julian Egerton Leigh is a British Conservative politician. He has sat in the House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for Gainsborough in Lincolnshire since 1997, and for its predecessor constituency of Gainsborough and Horncastle between 1983 and 1997...
MP
Member of Parliament
A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...
.
Since April 1974, Nettleham has formed part of the West Lindsey
West Lindsey
West Lindsey is a local government district in Lincolnshire, England.-History:The district was formed on 1 April 1974, from the urban districts of Gainsborough, Market Rasen, along with Caistor Rural District, Gainsborough Rural District and Welton Rural District...
district of Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...
.
Twinning
MulsanneMulsanne
Mulsanne is a commune in the Sarthe department in the region of Pays-de-la-Loire in north-western France.-Motor racing:The Circuit de la Sarthe, which is used in the sports car endurance race 24 Hours of Le Mans, features the long straight Ligne Droite des Hunaudières leading to Mulsanne, making a...
, Pays de la Loire
Pays de la Loire
Pays de la Loire is one of the 27 regions of France. It is one of the regions created in the late 20th century to serve as a zone of influence for its capital, Nantes, one of a handful so-called "balancing metropolises" ¹...
, 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 WessexEdith of Wessex
Edith of Wessex married King Edward the Confessor of England on 23 January 1045. Unlike most wives of kings of England in the tenth and eleventh centuries, she was crowned queen, but the marriage produced no children...
, wife of Edward the Confessor
Edward the Confessor
Edward the Confessor also known as St. Edward the Confessor , son of Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy, was one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England and is usually regarded as the last king of the House of Wessex, ruling from 1042 to 1066....
and later Empress Matilda
Empress Matilda
Empress Matilda , also known as Matilda of England or Maude, was the daughter and heir of King Henry I of England. Matilda and her younger brother, William Adelin, were the only legitimate children of King Henry to survive to adulthood...
, daughter of Henry I of England
Henry I of England
Henry I was the fourth son of William I of England. He succeeded his elder brother William II as King of England in 1100 and defeated his eldest brother, Robert Curthose, to become Duke of Normandy in 1106...
, 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
Edward I of England
Edward I , also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots, was King of England from 1272 to 1307. The first son of Henry III, Edward was involved early in the political intrigues of his father's reign, which included an outright rebellion by the English barons...
was staying in the Bishop's Palace when he created his son Edward (later Edward II of England
Edward II of England
Edward II , called Edward of Caernarfon, was King of England from 1307 until he was deposed by his wife Isabella in January 1327. He was the sixth Plantagenet king, in a line that began with the reign of Henry II...
) as the first Prince of Wales
Prince of Wales
Prince of Wales is a title traditionally granted to the heir apparent to the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the 15 other independent Commonwealth realms...
. 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.
The parish church of All Saints dates from the Saxon
Anglo-Saxons
Anglo-Saxon is a term used by historians to designate the Germanic tribes who invaded and settled the south and east of Great Britain beginning in the early 5th century AD, and the period from their creation of the English nation to the Norman conquest. The Anglo-Saxon Era denotes the period of...
period, with medieval and 19th century additions. It is in the benefice of Nettleham with Riseholme and Grange de Lings. 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
Newark-on-Trent
Newark-on-Trent is a market town in Nottinghamshire in the East Midlands region of England. It stands on the River Trent, the A1 , and the East Coast Main Line railway. The origins of the town are possibly Roman as it lies on an important Roman road, the Fosse Way...
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. 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
East Coast Main Line
The East Coast Main Line is a long electrified high-speed railway link between London, Peterborough, Doncaster, Wakefield, Leeds, York, Darlington, Newcastle and Edinburgh...
. 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
LINSIG
LINSIG is a software tool which allows traffic engineers to model traffic signals and their effect on traffic capacities and queuing. As well as modelling the effects of traffic signals LINSIG also optimises signal timings to reduce delay or increase capacity at a junction or group of interlinked...
software for traffic lights originated by Brian Simmonite. It hosts courses on training in the traffic signal control industry.
Sport and recreation
Nettleham F.C.Nettleham F.C.
Nettleham Football Club is an English football club based in Nettleham, Lincolnshire. The club are currently members of the Lincolnshire League and play at Mulsanne Park.-History:...
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 HolbeachHenry HolbeachHenry Holbeach was an English clergyman who served as the last Prior and first Dean of Worcester, a suffragan bishop, and diocesan bishop of two Church of England dioceses.-Life:...
, served as the last Prior and first Dean of WorcesterDean of WorcesterThe Dean of Worcester is the head of the Chapter of Worcester Cathedral in Worcester, England. The most current Dean is the Very Rev Peter Gordon Atkinson who lives at The Deanery, College Green, Worcester.-List of Deans:...
- buried here
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