Carrington, Lincolnshire (original) (raw)

Village and civil parish in Lincolnshire, England

Human settlement in England

Carrington
Church of Saint Paul, Carrington
Carrington is located in LincolnshireCarringtonCarringtonLocation within Lincolnshire
Population 554 (Including New Bolingbroke. 2011 census)
OS grid reference TF310554
• London 110 mi (180 km) S
Civil parish Carrington and New Bolingbroke
District East Lindsey
Shire county Lincolnshire
Region East Midlands
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Boston
Postcode district PE22
Police Lincolnshire
Fire Lincolnshire
Ambulance East Midlands
UK Parliament Boston and Skegness
List of places UK England Lincolnshire 53°04′49″N 0°02′41″W / 53.080290°N 0.044675°W / 53.080290; -0.044675

Carrington is a village in the civil parish of Carrington and New Bolingbroke,[1] in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately 7 miles (11 km) north from the market town of Boston.

It lies within The Fens and was largely uninhabited marshland until the early nineteenth century. Drainage of an area known as West Fen began in 1802, and in 1812 a township called Carrington was created covering some of the drained land, named after Robert Smith, 1st Baron Carrington, the main landowner.[2] The township became a civil parish in 1858.[3] The civil parish of Carrington also included New Bolingbroke, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) to the north. The parish was renamed "Carrington and New Bolingbroke" in November 2022, at which point the parish council also declared the parish to be a town, allowing it to take the style "town council" and appoint a mayor.[4][5] The parish also contains the hamlet of Medlam. The parish has a population of 564 according to the 2001 census,[6] reducing slightly to 554 at the 2011 Census.[7]

Carrington church is dedicated to St Paul, and was built of red brick in 1816 under the Fen Chapel Act (1816), with its chancel being added in 1872.[8] It is a Grade II listed building.[9] Carrington and New Bolingbroke were separate ecclesiastical parishes until 1961 when they were united.[10]

Carrington's school, the Medlam School, was opened in February 1881 by the West Fen United District School Board which existed from 1879 to 1903. By the time of its closure in 1987 it was known as Carrington County Primary School. Children now attend school in nearby Stickney.[11]

Carrington Rally is an annual event which has taken place each spring for over 50 years, and is a steam and tractor show which supports local charities.[12]

The Carrington Glasshouse of Dyson Farming is based in Carrington. It is six hectares in size and 424 meters in length, with 700,000 strawberry plants.[13]

Carrington was the birthplace of William Macbride Childs, the son of the Revd William Linington Childs, vicar of Carrington, and first vice-chancellor of the University of Reading.[14]

  1. ^ "Carrington and New Bolingbroke". Mapit. Retrieved 5 July 2023.
  2. ^ "Wildmore Fen and East and West Fen New Townships Act 1812". legislation.gov.uk. The National Archives. Retrieved 26 November 2023.
  3. ^ "Carrington Tn/CP/PA". A Vision of Britain through Time. Archived from the original on 31 May 2012. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
  4. ^ "Carrington Parish Council minutes, 29 November 2022". Lincolnshire Parish Councils. Retrieved 26 November 2023.
  5. ^ "Boundary Map of Carrington Tn/CP/PA". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
  6. ^ "Parish Headcounts, 2001". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
  7. ^ "Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  8. ^ "St Paul, Carrington". A Church Near You. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
  9. ^ Historic England. "Church of St Paul, Bolingbroke Road (1359721)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 21 July 2013.
  10. ^ "No. 42429". The London Gazette. 4 August 1961. p. 5741.
  11. ^ "Carrington County Primary School". Lincolnshire Archives. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
  12. ^ "Carrington Rally 2010" Archived 25 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Visitlincolnshire.com. Retrieved 16 May 2011
  13. ^ Cheshire, Luisa (24 March 2021). "Dyson Farming extends UK strawberry season". Fruitnet. Archived from the original on 23 August 2022. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  14. ^ Corley, T.A.B. "Childs, William Macbride (1869–1939), educationist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 8 February 2010.