Hundleby is a village 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

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 ...

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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. The village is a

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of the

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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 ...

. Hundleby is listed 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 "Hundelbi", with Ivo Tallboys (Ivo Tallebois) as

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. This was long an agricultural area, a centre for

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production. The Anglican church, which is a Grade II

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, is dedicated to

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. The 14th-century medieval church was mostly torn down in 1854-55 and reconstructed using the original greenstone. Only the base of the tower and nave remain of the former church. Spilsby Union

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was built in Hundleby in 1837, to designs by

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. After 1930 it became a

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. In 1948 it was converted to the Gables Hospital providing

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care. It was eventually closed and demolished. An

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of the same name stretches north to

Swaby Swaby is a civil parish and village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, about north from Spilsby, and north-west from Alford. Whitepit is a hamlet half a mile west of the village. History Swaby is listed in the ''Domesday ...

, containing 2,107 people as of the 2011 Census.

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* {{authority control Villages in Lincolnshire East Lindsey District Civil parishes in Lincolnshire