Tinwell is a village and

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in the county of

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in the

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. The population at the 2001 census was 209, increasing to 234 at the 2011 census.

Village

The village's name origin is dubious. Possibly, 'spring/stream of the people of Tyni'. Alternatively, 'spring/stream of Tida' or 'spring/stream with

goat The goat or domestic goat (''Capra hircus'') is a species of Caprinae, goat-antelope that is mostly kept as livestock. It was domesticated from the wild goat (''C. aegagrus'') of Southwest Asia and Eastern Europe. The goat is a member of the ...

s'. The village is just west of the A1 and within walking distance of the town of Stamford in Lincolnshire. The village has a well-used

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, which provides a venue for parties and community events as well as regular special interest classes. Next door to the village hall is a football pitch which as well as providing a sports area is the venue for village parties. A recent major event on the field was the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in 2012 where hundreds of villagers and friends turned out for a sports day, barbeque and concert and the lighting of the jubilee beacon made at Tinwell

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. Also nearby on Crown Lane is the village

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"The Crown" which is currently closed but has plans for refurbishment. All Saints' Church, Tinwell has a distinctive tower with an unusual

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; these are rare in England and was added in about 1350. Archived page is 2015 visit, live page is 2022 visit. In 2023, members of the church congregation returned a crucifix to the village of Doingt in northern France. The vicar in the 1930s, Percy Hooson, in the

First World War World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...

had picked up the cross from the ruins of the church at Doingt following the

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. A local 16-year-old, on discovering its history, suggested it should be returned to Doingt which had been rebuilt. Opposite the church is The Old Rectory, birthplace of Thomas Laxton (1830-1893) who conducted plant-breeding research for

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and developed the Laxton Superb and Laxton Fortune apples and the Royal Sovereign strawberry. Other buildings of interest are Tinwell Forge and Bakery which are located on Main Street and were built in 1848. At the front of the forge is a stone surround to the village spring, which was built for the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria; there is also a Victorian post box. The bakery closed in 1948 but the forge continues to be in operation. By the riverside is Tinwell Mill, although it is now a private house a mill stood at the same site during the

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period. Walks can be taken from Tinwell south towards

Easton on the Hill Easton on the Hill is a village and civil parish at the extreme north eastern tip of North Northamptonshire, England. The village had a population at the 2011 census was 1,015. The village, sited on the A43 road, is compact in form, with the ...

, with its Norman church and the Priest's House; west around the

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quarry and along the rivers Chater and

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towards Ketton, Aldgate and Geeston; and east following the Jurassic Way towards Stamford, and the Macmillan and Hereward Ways to Wothorpe and

Burghley House Burghley House () is a grand sixteenth-century English country house near Stamford, Lincolnshire. It is a leading example of the Elizabethan prodigy house, built and still lived in by the senior (Exeter) branch of the Cecil family and is Grade ...

. There is a footpath map showing these routes in the churchyard.

World War II

On 8 July 1944, two C47s collided after taking-off from

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for an exercise. One crew member managed to parachute safely but eight others and 26 Polish paratroops of the

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perished in the crash. The American casualties from 315th Troop Carrier Group were taken to the Cambridge American Cemetery for burial and the Polish casualties were taken to the Polish Cemetery at Newark. All those killed are commemorated in the church.

Ingthorpe

The village is associated with the site of the lost or shrunken

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village of Ingthorpe, in the north of the parish, close to the

River Gwash The River Gwash, occasionally Guash, a tributary of the River Welland, flows through the Historic counties of England, English counties of Leicestershire, Rutland and Lincolnshire. It rises just outside the village of Knossington in Leicestersh ...

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