SOUTH WILLINGHAM PARISH

Introduction

South Willingham is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, and partly within the Lincolnshire Wolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, . It is situated 1 mile (2 km) south of the A157 Lincoln to Louth road, 15 miles (24 km) west of Lincoln, where the central Lincolnshire Vale and the Lincolnshire Wolds meet. Its population was 160 at the 2011 census, down from a maximum of 341 in 1851. The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book but nearby long barrows and pottery finds provide evidence of settlement before this time. There are 7 listed buildings in the village, which include the Church and the two thatched cottages in the centre. The church clock still chimes on the hour. A tower windmill located at the edge of the parish was demolished in 1958. The village's two Methodist Chapels and school have now been converted to dwellings. South Willingham railway station, on the branch line from Bardney to Louth, closed in the 1950s, however a regular bus service currently calls at the village centre. Much of the village formed part of the Heneage Estate; Hainton Hall is a mile north of the village. At South Willingham is Belmont transmitting station, the second tallest structure in the UK. The geology under the village is unusually complex with four separate bedrocks located within the parish. Sand, gravel and clay have all be quarried in the parish; the clay pit supplied a brickworks in the Victorian era.

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