Aswardby (pronounced "as-ard-bee") is a village situated north-west from

Spilsby Spilsby is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The town is adjacent to the main A16 road (England), A16, east of Lincoln, Lincolnshire, Lincoln, north-east of Boston ...

, in the

East Lindsey East Lindsey is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in Lincolnshire, England. Its council is based in Horncastle and the largest town is Skegness. Other towns include Alford, Lincolnshire, Alford, Burgh le Marsh, Coningsby, L ...

district of

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (), abbreviated ''Lincs'', is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber regions of England. It is bordered by the East Riding of Yorkshire across the Humber estuary to th ...

, England. It lies north of the A158 and west of the A16 roads. It is in the

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. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

of Sausthorpe. Fr

T. Pelham Dale Thomas Pelham Dale (1821–1892) was an English Anglo-Catholic ritualist priest, most notable for being prosecuted and imprisoned for ritualist practices. Biography Thomas Pelham Dale was born at Greenwich on 3 April 1821 and grew up in Beckenha ...

, SSC, prosecuted and imprisoned for

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practices in 1876 and 1880, and regarded a

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, was the parish priest from 1881 to 1892. Aswardby Hall was built approximately 1845, with further building works completed around 1910. Aswardby should not be confused with Aswarby, which is also in Lincolnshire, but about south-west of Aswardby.

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Villages in Lincolnshire Civil parishes in Lincolnshire East Lindsey District {{Lincolnshire-geo-stub

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