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Coordinates: 53°15'58?N 0°29'16?W? / ?53.266167, -0.487741
Nettleham is a large village and civil parish within the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is located four miles northeast of the city of Lincoln and has a total resident population of 6,514.[1]
Nettleham has won the "Best Kept Village Award" several times[citation needed] and the centre of the village is a conservation area. Nettleham is also the location of the Lincolnshire Police headquarters. Nettleham's football team have twice played Aston Villa football club in friendlies. No other settlement shares Nettleham's name. It is twinned with Mulsanne in France.
[edit] Geography and administration
Nettleham is located between the villages of Reepham, Sudbrooke and Cherry Willingham between the A46 and A158.
Nettleham forms part of the Gainsborough parliamentary constituency which is represented by Edward Leigh MP.
Since 1974, Nettleham has formed part of the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire.
[edit] History
The now-demolished manor house at Nettleham was the property of Edith of Wessex, 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. Village pubs are the Black Horse on Chapel Lane, the Plough on Church Street, and the White Hart on High Street.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- , United Kingdom Census 2001. Nettleham CP (Parish). neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk. Retrieved on 2007-06-13.
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