Caenby is a hamlet and

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 ...

in the

West Lindsey West Lindsey is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in Lincolnshire, England. Its council is based in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, Gainsborough, the district's largest town. The district also includes the towns of Caistor and M ...

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, England. It is situated north of the city and

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of Lincoln. The population is included in the civil parish of

Glentham Glentham is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated on the A631, west from Market Rasen, and east from Caenby Corner and the A15. The village includes the hamlet of Caenby. Etymolog ...

. The place name, Caenby, seems to contain an unrecorded

Old Norse Old Norse, also referred to as Old Nordic or Old Scandinavian, was a stage of development of North Germanic languages, North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants ...

personal name ''Kafni'', + ''bȳ'' (Old Norse), a farmstead, a village, so possibly, 'Kafni's farm or settlement'. The place appears in the

Domesday Book Domesday Book ( ; the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of William the Conqueror. The manuscript was originally known by ...

of 1086 as ''Couenebi''. Caenby's

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listed

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church is dedicated to

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. A moated manor house, now the Grade II listed Hall Farm House, was a seat of the Tournay family from the time of

Edward I Edward I (17/18 June 1239 – 7 July 1307), also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots (Latin: Malleus Scotorum), was King of England from 1272 to 1307. Concurrently, he was Lord of Ireland, and from 125 ...

to George II. In 1541

Henry VIII Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547. Henry is known for his Wives of Henry VIII, six marriages and his efforts to have his first marriage (to Catherine of Aragon) annulled. ...

slept here while on his Lincolnshire progress.Cox, J. Charles (1916) ''Lincolnshire'' p. 92; Methuen & Co. Ltd In the 18th century, Lawrence Monck occupied the house. In 1945 fields adjacent to Caenby were a military Q decoy site maintained by

RAF Hemswell Royal Air Force Hemswell, or RAF Hemswell, is a former Royal Air Force station located east of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England. Located close to the village of Hemswell in Lincolnshire, England the disestablished airfield is now in f ...

. Dummy plywood buildings, inflatable rubber aircraft or vehicles, and a ploughed faux runway were set up to simulate an active airfield and draw German bombers away from genuine target airfields.

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.org.uk. Retrieved 10 July 2011 {{authority control Villages in Lincolnshire Civil parishes in Lincolnshire West Lindsey District

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