Somersby is both a village and a parish in the
Lincolnshire WoldsThe Lincolnshire Wolds are a range of hills in the county of Lincolnshire, England. They are a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty , and the highest area of land in eastern England between Yorkshire and Kent...
, 6 miles northwest of
SpilsbySpilsby is a market town and civil parish in Lincolnshire. England. The town is situated adjacent to the main A16 Trunk Road at the southern edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds north of the Fenlands, 33 miles east of the county town of Lincoln, 17 miles north east of Boston and 13 miles north west...
and 7 miles eastnortheast of Horncastle. The parish covers about 600 acres.
Somersby lies in the
Lincolnshire WoldsThe Lincolnshire Wolds are a range of hills in the county of Lincolnshire, England. They are a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty , and the highest area of land in eastern England between Yorkshire and Kent...
, which are a designated
Area of Outstanding Natural BeautyAn Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty is an area of countryside considered to have significant landscape value in England, Wales or Northern Ireland, that has been specially designated by the Countryside Agency on behalf of the United Kingdom government; the Countryside Council for Wales on...
, running from
CaistorSee Caistor St. Edmund for the Roman settlement in Norfolk or Caister-on-Sea for the town in NorfolkCaistor is a Georgian town situated in Lincolnshire, England and was, as its name implies, originally a Roman fortress. Only a few fragments of the fourth century walls remain,for example, the...
in the north to
SpilsbySpilsby is a market town and civil parish in Lincolnshire. England. The town is situated adjacent to the main A16 Trunk Road at the southern edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds north of the Fenlands, 33 miles east of the county town of Lincoln, 17 miles north east of Boston and 13 miles north west...
in the south.
Somersby Quarry, an outcrop of Spilsby Sandstone, shows perfectly the softness of this stone and its khaki-green colour when exposed to weathering.
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Somersby is both a village and a parish in the
Lincolnshire WoldsThe Lincolnshire Wolds are a range of hills in the county of Lincolnshire, England. They are a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty , and the highest area of land in eastern England between Yorkshire and Kent...
, 6 miles northwest of
SpilsbySpilsby is a market town and civil parish in Lincolnshire. England. The town is situated adjacent to the main A16 Trunk Road at the southern edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds north of the Fenlands, 33 miles east of the county town of Lincoln, 17 miles north east of Boston and 13 miles north west...
and 7 miles eastnortheast of Horncastle. The parish covers about 600 acres.
Location
Somersby lies in the
Lincolnshire WoldsThe Lincolnshire Wolds are a range of hills in the county of Lincolnshire, England. They are a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty , and the highest area of land in eastern England between Yorkshire and Kent...
, which are a designated
Area of Outstanding Natural BeautyAn Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty is an area of countryside considered to have significant landscape value in England, Wales or Northern Ireland, that has been specially designated by the Countryside Agency on behalf of the United Kingdom government; the Countryside Council for Wales on...
, running from
CaistorSee Caistor St. Edmund for the Roman settlement in Norfolk or Caister-on-Sea for the town in NorfolkCaistor is a Georgian town situated in Lincolnshire, England and was, as its name implies, originally a Roman fortress. Only a few fragments of the fourth century walls remain,for example, the...
in the north to
SpilsbySpilsby is a market town and civil parish in Lincolnshire. England. The town is situated adjacent to the main A16 Trunk Road at the southern edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds north of the Fenlands, 33 miles east of the county town of Lincoln, 17 miles north east of Boston and 13 miles north west...
in the south.
Somersby Quarry, an outcrop of Spilsby Sandstone, shows perfectly the softness of this stone and its khaki-green colour when exposed to weathering. Although this quarry is now disused, stone has been used to repair nearby Somersby Church.
Church
The Anglican parish church is dedicated to
St. Margaret. The church is an ancient sandstone building, built some time before 1612 and restored in 1863-5. The church only seats about 80 people.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, poet laureate, was baptised in this church.
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