Carlton Scroop is a small village and

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in the

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, England. The population of the civil parish (including Normanton) at the 2011 census was 304. It is situated north-east from the

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Grantham Grantham () is a market town and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, situated on the banks of the River Witham and bounded to the west by the A1 road (Great Britain), A1 road. It lies south of Lincoln, England ...

and east from the village of Hougham. The A607 road to Lincoln passes through the centre of the village.

History

The village is listed in the ''

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'' survey as "Carletune". Carlton Scroop

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listed

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church is dedicated to St Nicholas. Parts of the fabric are Norman, although the most obvious features are Decorated. The east window, depicting two kneeling figures each holding a shield, is an example of 14th-century medieval

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. Called the Newmarch window it dates from 1310. The base of the tower is 12th-century and the upper part from 1632, constructed after the former

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collapsed. Following the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the parish subscribed to the Grantham

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. The village was once split in two by the Honington and Lincoln railway, opened in 1867, later part of the Great Northern Railway. The railway was closed during the

Beeching cuts The Beeching cuts, also colloquially referred to as the Beeching Axe, were a major series of route closures and service changes made as part of the restructuring of the nationalised railway system in Great Britain in the 1960s. They are named ...

of 1965. A microwave tower formed part of a cold war emergency microwave communications system, 'Backbone'. A

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era bunker of the Royal Observer Corps was built in 1965 and abandoned in 1968, and is now demolished.

Village

Carlton Scroop is situated below the Lincoln Cliff, an escarpment edge that separates the Lincolnshire Wolds from the Vale of Trent. On the Cliff, to the north, is the village of Normanton on Cliffe. The village is part of the

ecclesiastical parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christianity, Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest#Christianity, priest, often termed a parish pries ...

of Carlton Scroop and Normanton on Cliffe, itself part of the Caythorpe Group of parishes in the Loveden

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of the

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 Leice ...

. The civil parish has the same boundaries. The church is dedicated to

Saint Nicholas Saint Nicholas of Myra (traditionally 15 March 270 – 6 December 343), also known as Nicholas of Bari, was an early Christian bishop of Greeks, Greek descent from the maritime city of Patara (Lycia), Patara in Anatolia (in modern-day Antalya ...

; the 2013 incumbent is the Rev'd Ali Healy., Diocese of Lincoln. Retrieved 21 July 2013 The Viking Way long-distance footpath passes through the village. A mast is situated just outside the village, part of the microwave telephone link from London to Scotland.

References

External links

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"Carlton-Scroop (St. Nicholas)"''A Topographical Dictionary of England''
p. 522, 1848. Retrieved 25 June 2010
Viking Way
Long Distance Walkers Association {{authority control Villages in Lincolnshire Civil parishes in Lincolnshire South Kesteven District