Gringley on the Hill,

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, is an English village and parish. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 699, increasing to 854 in 2021. It is on the highest part of the road from

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to Gainsborough, six miles east-southeast of the former, and the same distance west by north of the latter town.

Location

From its situation on the loftiest of the promontories which overlook the wide extent of Misson Carr and Misterton Carr, it commands such extensive prospects that

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can be seen from it on a clear day across the vale of the Trent, whilst in the nearer distance the

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appears emerging from the tunnel at Drakeholes, winding under the long ridge of hills which extends eastward to the

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Antiquities

The

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includes three sites located in the village, as well as the church. These are the site of a prehistoric

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at Beacon Hill, the stump of a medieval market cross, and a four-storey tower

windmill A windmill is a machine operated by the force of wind acting on vanes or sails to mill grain (gristmills), pump water, generate electricity, or drive other machinery. Windmills were used throughout the high medieval and early modern period ...

dating from 1830.

Church

The St Peter & St Paul's Church is of Norman construction, with a later

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tower. Of note is an Early English pillar

piscina A piscina is a shallow basin placed near the altar of a church, or else in the vestry or sacristy, used for washing the communion vessels. The sacrarium is the drain itself. Lutherans and Anglicans usually refer to the basin, calling it a pisci ...

, a free-standing bowl for washing the communion vessels.

Windmill

A brick tower windmill was built at Gringley c. 1830 by Jabez Wilkinson, replacing a post mill on the same site. The four-storey tower was derelict by 1977.

2022 temperature record

On 19 July 2022, a temperature of was recorded at Gringley on the Hill, which is the highest recorded temperature in Nottinghamshire and one of the highest recorded in the United Kingdom and also making Gringley on the Hill the northernmost place in the UK to exceed . It surpassed the Nottinghamshire record set only the day before (18 July) of , which was recorded at Sutton Bonington. The previous Nottinghamshire record was , recorded at the Nottingham Weather Centre.

References

External links

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* http://www.gringleyvillage.org.uk/ * http://www.oldnotts.co.uk/churches/gringley.htm

* ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHL7qfE4by8 YouTube video - parish visit journal {{DEFAULTSORT:Gringley on the Hill Villages in Nottinghamshire Civil parishes in Nottinghamshire Bassetlaw District