Stainton by Langworth is a hamlet and

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in the

West Lindsey West Lindsey is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in Lincolnshire, England. Its council is based in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, Gainsborough, the district's largest town. The district also includes the towns of Caistor and M ...

district 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 less than north-west from the

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, north-east from

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and north-west from

Horncastle Horncastle is a market town and civil parish in the East Lindsey district in Lincolnshire, England. It is east of Lincoln. Its population was 6,815 at the 2011 census and estimated at 7,123 in 2019. A section of the ancient Roman walls rema ...

. There is a war memorial in the

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, a Grade II

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constructed in 1795. An 1885 restoration incorporates earlier 14th-century material, including a

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Stainton War memorial
{{DEFAULTSORT:Stainton By Langworth Hamlets in Lincolnshire Civil parishes in Lincolnshire West Lindsey District