Ketsby is a hamlet in the
civil parish
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of
South Ormsby
South Ormsby, sometimes called South Ormesby, is a village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated west from the A16 road, south from Louth and 7 miles north-east from Horncastle. With the nearby hamlet of Ketsby ...
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 ...
district
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of
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. It is situated west from the town of
Alford. The population of the hamlet is included in the civil parish of
Brinkhill.
Ketsby is listed in the ''
Domesday
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 ...
'' account with 18 households, a meadow of and a mill.
An early
medieval
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cresset lamp, with a
maltese cross
The Maltese cross is a cross symbol, consisting of four " V" or arrowhead shaped concave quadrilaterals converging at a central vertex at right angles, two tips pointing outward symmetrically.
It is a heraldic cross variant which develope ...
carved on the base, was found at Ketsby and is now in
Lincoln City and County Museum.
Ketsby
water mill
A watermill or water mill is a mill that uses hydropower. It is a structure that uses a water wheel or water turbine to drive a mechanical process such as milling (grinding), rolling, or hammering. Such processes are needed in the production ...
and mill house are built in yellow brick, date from 1864, and are Grade II
listed building
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s. The mill is no longer in operation.
The
Greenwich Prime Zero meridian line passes through the hamlet.
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Hamlets in Lincolnshire
East Lindsey District