Wildmore is a civil

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in the

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district of

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, England. It is situated approximately north-west from the town of

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and south 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 no village called Wildmore; the village of

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lies within the parish boundaries as does the hamlet of Haven Bank.

History

The name Wildmore comes from the surrounding Wildmore Fen. It appears from a

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now in the

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, that it belonged after the

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to the baronies of Bolingbroke,

and

Scrivelsby Scrivelsby is a village and ecclesiastical parish in the East Lindsey district of the County of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated south of Horncastle and is on the B1183 road east from the A153 road. It is administered by the civil pari ...

. William Romara, who held Bolingbroke, gave his portion to

Kirkstead Abbey Kirkstead Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in Kirkstead, Lincolnshire, England. The monastery was founded in 1139 by Hugh Brito, (or Hugh son of Eudo), lord of Tattershall, and was originally colonised by an abbot and twelve monks from ...

during the reign of King Stephen.

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afforested the whole of the fenland area and these continued to be the Kings hunting grounds until 1230 in the reign of Henry III.

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gave Horncastle to Gerbald Skalls, Scrivelsby to Robert Marmion and Kirkstead Abbey the Hermitage of Wildmore. Skalls and Marmion gave the monks of Kirkstead right of common pasture in Wildmore. By 1222 the Abbot of Kirkstead, styled Lord of Wildmore, possessed the whole of Wildmore with the exception of Moorhouses which belonged to

Revesby Abbey Revesby Abbey was a Cistercian monastery near the village of Revesby in Lincolnshire, England. The abbey was founded in 1143 by William de Roumare, Earl of Lincoln, and the first monks came from Rievaulx Abbey. After the Dissolution of the Mon ...

. Wildmore Fen was not drained until 1802, being part of the drainage plans of the East, West, and Wildmore Fens. Wildmore was formed as a parish in 1880 from the fen allotments of

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Moorby Moorby is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Claxby with Moorby, in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The village is situated south-east from Horncastle and east from Wood Enderby. Moorby has a ...

, Roughton, Thimbleby, High Toynton, Low Toynton, and

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; and detached parts of Bolingbroke,

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, Haltham,

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Tattershall Thorpe Tattershall Thorpe is a hamlet and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately south from Woodhall Spa, and north-east from Tattershall. The hamlet is significant because of its Second Wor ...

, Thornton le Fen, Toynton All Saints, and

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Church

In 1816 the

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, known as Frog Hall, was built of red brick, sandstone and limestone. It was dedicated to

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and is a Grade II

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. Today Saint Peters Church is one of the

Brothertoft Brothertoft is a village in the Civil parishes in England, civil parish of Holland Fen with Brothertoft, in the Borough of Boston, Boston district, in the county of Lincolnshire, England. It is about northwest from the market town of Boston, L ...

Group in the Diocese of Lincoln, also known as "Five in the Fen", which also includes St Gilbert of Sempringham (

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(

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), Christ Church (

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) and St Margaret of Scotland (

Langrick Langrick is a small village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is in the civil parish of Langriville, and on the B1192 road, north-west from Boston. The village lies in the Lincolnshire Fens, and less than east from th ...

Windmill

Haven Bank

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was built in the early 19th century of red brick and is a Grade II

References

External links

* {{East Lindsey (district), state=collapsed Civil parishes in Lincolnshire East Lindsey District Windmills in Lincolnshire