Calceby

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title: "Calceby" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["villages-in-lincolnshire", "former-civil-parishes-in-lincolnshire", "sites-of-special-scientific-interest-in-lincolnshire", "east-lindsey-district"] description: "Village in Lincolnshire, England" topic_path: "technology/web" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calceby" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Village in Lincolnshire, England ::

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Field	Value
country	England
static_image_name	St.Andrew's church, Calceby, Lincs. - geograph.org.uk - 113107.jpg
static_image_alt	A white archway and portion of wall stand isolated in a grassy field under a blue sky
static_image_caption	Ruins of St Andrew's Church, Calceby
static_image_2_name	Calceby.jpg
static_image_2_alt	Aerial photograph of fields, with a less-than-straight country lane passing up close to the right hand side. In the top of the frame a modern farmhouse and buildings stand on right of the road. Most of the land is pasture, with two arable fields visible. The crop there is sparse, with large bare patches. The brook wiggles across the upper half of the picture, serpentine in a landscape of straight boundaries. It is narrow and from this height and angle the water surface cannot be discerned. The spring is centre right, its own water course straight and running upwards, toward the brook. The spring is in the greenest of the meadows, with the low humps and bumps of the lost village around.
static_image_2_caption	Calceby brook and spring.
The source of the Great Eau
coordinates
official_name	Calceby
civil_parish	South Thoresby
shire_district	East Lindsey
shire_county	Lincolnshire
region	East Midlands
post_town	Alford
postcode_district	LN13
postcode_area	LN
os_grid_reference	TF389755
london_distance_mi	120
london_direction	S
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| country = England | static_image_name = St.Andrew's church, Calceby, Lincs. - geograph.org.uk - 113107.jpg | static_image_alt = A white archway and portion of wall stand isolated in a grassy field under a blue sky | static_image_caption = Ruins of St Andrew's Church, Calceby | static_image_2_name = Calceby.jpg | static_image_2_alt = Aerial photograph of fields, with a less-than-straight country lane passing up close to the right hand side. In the top of the frame a modern farmhouse and buildings stand on right of the road. Most of the land is pasture, with two arable fields visible. The crop there is sparse, with large bare patches. The brook wiggles across the upper half of the picture, serpentine in a landscape of straight boundaries. It is narrow and from this height and angle the water surface cannot be discerned. The spring is centre right, its own water course straight and running upwards, toward the brook. The spring is in the greenest of the meadows, with the low humps and bumps of the lost village around. | static_image_2_caption = Calceby brook and spring. The source of the Great Eau | coordinates = | official_name = Calceby | population = | civil_parish = South Thoresby | shire_district = East Lindsey | shire_county = Lincolnshire | region = East Midlands | constituency_westminster = | post_town = Alford | postcode_district = LN13 | postcode_area = LN | dial_code = | os_grid_reference = TF389755 | london_distance_mi = 120 | london_direction = S

Calceby is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of South Thoresby, in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately 4 mi west from the market town of Alford. In 1961 the parish had a population of 32. On 1 April 1987 the parish was abolished and merged with South Thoresby. Once much larger, Calceby is recorded in the Domesday Book as "Calesbi". Lord of the Manor in 1086 was Earl Hugh of Chester. By the early seventeenth century, the conversion of agriculture from corn to pasture had begun a process of depopulation of the parish.

In 1638 the vicar said that his meagre income from tithes (£13 16s 6d per annum) could only be increased if the village were to be repopulated. The parish church of St Andrew is now in ruins, the last service to take place there being in 1692. Maurice Beresford included Calceby in his "Lost Villages of England".

Calceby Beck & Spring are the source of the Great Eau, and are part of the local network of Chalk Streams.

Calceby Marsh has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) as "an outstanding example of base-rich marsh". The site consists of three areas of marshland, each differing slightly in species composition and surrounded by grassland of value to breeding snipe and lapwing.

Calceby Marsh SSSI is owned by the Diocese of Lincoln

References

References

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2. "Spilsby Registration District". UKBMD.
3. "Domesday Book:Calceby". Domesday Maps: University of Hull.
4. (1956). "Economic Problems of the Church". Panther.
5. "Lincolnshire Wolds:Calceby". Lincolnshire Wolds.
6. Hill, ibid: Beresford (1954) p. 57
7. "Calceby Beck, South Thoresby". Lincolnshire Chalk Streams Project.
8. "The Lincolnshire Chalk Streams Project". Lincolnshire Wolds Countryside Service.
9. "Calceby Marsh". English Nature Org..
10. "Hidden Glebe".

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