Brinkhill

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title: "Brinkhill" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["villages-in-lincolnshire", "civil-parishes-in-lincolnshire", "east-lindsey-district"] description: "Village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England" topic_path: "general/villages-in-lincolnshire" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinkhill" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England ::

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Field	Value
country	England
static_image_name	St.Philip's church, Brinkhill, Lincs. - geograph.org.uk - 112920.jpg
static_image_caption	St Philip's Church, Brinkhill
coordinates
official_name	Brinkhill
population	172
population_ref	(Including Ketsby and South Ormsby. 2011)
shire_district	East Lindsey
shire_county	Lincolnshire
region	East Midlands
constituency_westminster	Louth and Horncastle
post_town	Louth
postcode_district	LN11
postcode_area	LN
os_grid_reference	TF372736
london_distance_mi	120
london_direction	S
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Brinkhill is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately 5 mi west from the market town of Alford and 7 mi north-west from Spilsby, The village lies in the Lincolnshire Wolds, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

The village is listed in 1086 Domesday Book as "Brincle", with 26 households which was then considered quite large. The Lord of the Manor was Earl Hugh of Chester.

The parish church is dedicated to Saint Philip and is a Grade II listed building dating from 1857, built of red brick by Maugham and Fowler. In the churchyard stands an ancient scheduled and Grade II* listed churchyard cross, the base of which dates from the 14th century, with a 19th-century alteration.

The Greenwich Prime Zero meridian line passes through the village.

References

References

1. "Parish population 2011". Office for National Statistics.
2. "Brinkhill". Anna Powell-Smith/University of Hull.
3. "St Philips Church". British Listed Buildings.
4. "Cross in Churchyard, St Philip". British Listed Buildings.
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