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Village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district from Lincolnshire, England

Human settlement in England

Scamblesby
Scamblesby village
Scamblesby is located in LincolnshireScamblesbyScamblesbyLocation within Lincolnshire
Population 228 (Including Cawkwell. 2011 Census)[1]
OS grid reference TF276787
• London 125 mi (201 km) S
District East Lindsey
Shire county Lincolnshire
Region East Midlands
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Louth
Postcode district LN11
Police Lincolnshire
Fire Lincolnshire
Ambulance East Midlands
UK Parliament Gainsborough
List of places UK England Lincolnshire 53°17′27″N 0°05′11″W / 53.290771°N 0.086484°W / 53.290771; -0.086484

Scamblesby is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district from Lincolnshire, England. It is situated 6 miles (10 km) south-west from Louth, on the A153 road, and within the Lincolnshire Wolds, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

In 1185, Roger de Maletoth gave a bovate, around 20 acres of land, at Scamblesby, to the Knights Templar.[2]

In 1507, the prebend of Scamblesby was held by Polydore Vergil, an Italian historian and priest, who had moved to England in 1502.[3] Vergil held the prebend until 1513 but lived mainly in London.[4]

In 1672, Herbert Thorndike, Canon of Westminster Abbey, left the 'lands and tenements' he owned in Scamblesby, to be held in trust, to provide a 'perpetual vicarage' for the local church.[5]

The village Anglican parish church is dedicated to St Martin. It was partially rebuilt in the 1890s and seats around 100.[_citation needed_]

In 2007 Scamblesby Church of England Primary School achieved examination grades higher than the local and the national average.[6] Its 2012 Ofsted inspection judgements rated the school as Grade 2 (good) overall.[7] The school has a website found here

  1. ^ "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 21 August 2015.
  2. ^ Farrer, William (1924). Honors and Knights' Fees: Chester, Huntingdon. Printed for the author, by Spottiswoode, Ballntyne & co. p. 172.
  3. ^ Atkinson, Catherine (2007). Inventing Inventors in Renaissance Europe: Polydore Vergil's De Inventoribus Rerum. Mohr Siebeck. p. 291. ISBN 978-3-16-149187-0.
  4. ^ Ferguson, John; Alexander, Elizabeth H. (1932). "otes on the Work of Polydore Vergil "De Inventoribus Rerum"". Isis. 17 (1): 71–93. doi:10.1086/346638. JSTOR 224628. S2CID 143520469.
  5. ^ Kennett, White (bp. of Peterborough.) (1704). The case of impropriations, and of the augmentation of vicarages ... stated by history and law [by W. Kennett.]. [interleaved and with the author's MS. additions]. pp. 72–73.
  6. ^ "Scamblesby Church of England Primary School". BBC. 6 December 2007. Retrieved 13 January 2008.
  7. ^ "Scamblesby Church of England Primary School"; Ofsted report 2012. PDF download required. Retrieved 21 May 2012