Canwick is a village and

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in the

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district of

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, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 324. It is situated south from

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. The village overlooks the Witham Valley, where the

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follows an ice-age cut through the

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ridge which forms the spine of the county.

History

Canwick has been continuously occupied since

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times (the name derives from "Canna’s Farm" or "Canna’s Place" in Anglo-Saxon), but there was a significant

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here in the

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period. Canwick

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church is dedicated to

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. The fabric dates from the 12th, 14th and early 18th centuries, and the building was restored in the 19th century. It is a Saxon-era foundation, but was significantly improved by the same

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bishops who built

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. The church is built on a Roman tesselated pavement, parts of which were found in 1815, when a vault for the Sibthorp family was being dug in what is now the vestry, and it was also found below the floor of the tower in the early 20th century. A coin of the first

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has been found in the churchyard. The church patronage is held by the

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, oldest of the

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city

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. Canwick Hall was the seat of the Sibthorp family from the 17th to the 20th century, with the present structure being erected in 1810. Family members included the botanist

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and several MPs, including Colonel Sibthorp. Having already angered

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by his opposition to an allowance for her consort

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, he went on to declare that the Prince's

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project would bring the plague to England. The Hall was later home of

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from 1939 to his death there in 1941. New housing development took place in Canwick during the 1960s and the

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records 339 inhabitants and 150 households. Canwick is a civil and an

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Canwick Hill

Canwick Hill stands to the west of the village and forms a steep incline with a

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of roughly 14.2%. The hill is the site of the

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References

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