__NOTOC__ Bulby is a hamlet in the

South Kesteven South Kesteven is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in Lincolnshire, England, forming part of the traditional Kesteven division of the county. Its council is based in Grantham. The district also includes the towns of Bourne, ...

district of

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, England, and in the

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Irnham __NOTOC__ Irnham is a village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in South Kesteven, Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately south-east from Grantham. To the north is Ingoldsby, Lincolnshire, Ingoldsby and to the south-w ...

, Bulby and Hawthorpe. The village is situated west of the A15, east of the A1, and approximately north-west from the town of Bourne. In 1872 the two hamlets of Bulby and Hawthorpe were grouped as Bulby-cum-Hawthorpe forming the eastern side of Irnham parish, being a joint

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with a population of 180 in "of fertile land". About of Bulby-cum-Hawthorpe land was purchased by Rev. William Watson Smith in about 1840, who built on it the

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-style Bulby House and grounds. By 1872, Bulby House and of township land was owned by

Gilbert Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 1st Earl of Ancaster Gilbert Henry Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 1st Earl of Ancaster, (born Heathcote 1 October 1830 – 24 December 1910), known as Lord Aveland from 1867 to 1888 and as Lord Willoughby de Eresby from 1888 to 1892, was a British Liberal politic ...

(Lord Aveland), who was

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. A moated area evident at the time was said to be the site of Bulby Hall which is "supposed to have been burnt down in the Barons' wars". Bulby has close associations with farming, has a number of surrounding farms, and a

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. The River East Glen passes close to the west of the hamlet. There is evidence of a previous Bulby Hall, and two Medieval settlements: Little Bulby and East Bulby.

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Irnham, Bulby and Hawthorpe Parish HomepageBulby
– aerial view {{Authority control Hamlets in Lincolnshire South Kesteven District