Fulletby is a village and a
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...
in the
East Lindsey
East Lindsey is a local government district in Lincolnshire, England. The population of the district council was 136,401 at the 2011 census. The council is based in Manby. Other major settlements in the district include Alford, Wragby, Spils ...
district of
Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a Counties of England, county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-we ...
, England. It is in the
Lincolnshire Wolds, and north-east from
Horncastle, south from
Louth, and north-west from
Spilsby
Spilsby is a market town, civil parish and electoral ward in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The town is adjacent to the main A16, east of the county town of Lincoln, north-east of Boston and north-west of Skegnes ...
. The parish covers approximately . At the time of the 2011 census the population remained less than 100 and is included in the civil parish of
Low Toynton
Low Toynton is a hamlet and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish (including Fulletby) was 187 at the 2011 census. It is situated about north-east from the town of Horncastle, ...
.
History
The village is listed in the 1086 ''
Domesday Book
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''.
In 1841 the village consisted primarily of mud-and-stud cottages. In 1849 six Roman funeral urns were dug up in the parish. They contained burned bone fragments; one contained a Roman coin.
[''Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull'' 1885, p. 401] This area was occupied by the Romans from the 1st through 4th centuries, AD.
In 1885 ''
Kelly's Directory
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'' reported that the area's chief crops were wheat, barley, oats and turnips. In addition to the Anglican church of St. Andrew, the village had both a
Wesleyan
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and a
Primitive Methodist
The Primitive Methodist Church is a Methodist
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chapel.
[
Fulletby ]Grade II
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listed Anglican
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church, dedicated to St Andrew
Andrew the Apostle ( grc-koi, Ἀνδρέᾱς, Andréās ; la, Andrēās ; , syc, ܐܰܢܕ݁ܪܶܐܘܳܣ, ʾAnd’reʾwās), also called Saint Andrew, was an apostle of Jesus according to the New Testament. He is the brother of Simon Pete ...
,[ The Church is now part of the Hemingby Group of the Horncastle Deanery and seats around 120."Fulletby P C C"]
, Diocese of Lincoln
The Diocese of Lincoln forms part of the Province of Canterbury in England. The present diocese covers the ceremonial county of Lincolnshire.
History
The diocese traces its roots in an unbroken line to the Pre-Reformation Diocese of Leic ...
. Retrieved 25 June 2013
References
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Villages in Lincolnshire
Civil parishes in Lincolnshire
East Lindsey District