Temple Bruer with Temple High Grange is a civil parish and a former

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North Kesteven North Kesteven is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in Lincolnshire, England. The council is based in Sleaford. The district also contains the town of North Hykeham, which adjoins the neighbouring city of Lincoln, England, L ...

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, England which had in the

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been held by the

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and later by the

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of Temple Bruer Preceptory. By an Act of Parliament passed on 5 March 1879, Temple Bruer with Temple High Grange was constituted as a parish. At that time the parish was in Flaxwell

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, Sleaford Union and County Court district, and the ecclesiastical rural deanery of Longobody. The parish lies to the southeast of

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, southeast of Navenby and northwest of

Sleaford Sleaford is a market town and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. On the edge of the The Fens, Fenlands, it is north-east of Grantham, west of Boston, Lincolnshire, Boston, and sou ...

. Wellingore and Welbourn parishes lie to the west and Brauncewell to the south. The old Roman road,

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, passes through the western edge of the parish, which at this point is a bridleway not a modern road. Temple High Grange is part of the parish. The parish covered about . The parish is now within the electoral area of

Ashby de la Launde Ashby de la Launde is a small village, part of the civil parish of Ashby de la Launde and Bloxholm, in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. The village is situated just west of Digby, and east of the A15 and B1191 roads. In ...

and

Cranwell Cranwell is a village in the civil parish of Cranwell, Brauncewell and Byard's Leap, in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately north-west from Sleaford and south-east from Lincoln. The principal ...

Ward in North Kesteven District Council. It shares a parish council, the lowest tier of local government, with the adjacent parish of Ashby de la Launde and Bloxholm.

Notable buildings

The 13th-century church tower of Temple Bruer Preceptory is Grade 1 listed. There are three other listed buildings (two farmhouses and a stables), at grade II, in the parish. St John's Church, Temple Bruer was built to designs by James Fowler of Louth in 1874. The village school was built in 1873 with accommodation for 45 children.Kelly’s Directory of Lincolnshire, London. 1889, pg. 451.

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* {{Lincolnshire, state=collapsed Civil parishes in Lincolnshire North Kesteven District