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Saint Andrew's Church, Boothby Pagnell |
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Boothby Pagnell
Boothby Pagnell shown within Lincolnshire |
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| OS grid reference | SK 97157 30894 |
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| Unitary authority | South Kesteven |
| Ceremonial county | Lincolnshire |
| Region | East Midlands |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Grantham |
| Postcode district | NG33 |
| Police | Lincolnshire |
| Fire | Lincolnshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| EU Parliament | East Midlands |
| UK Parliament | Grantham and Stamford |
| List of places: UK • England • Lincolnshire | |
Boothby Pagnell is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England.
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The local authority, and the Ordnance Survey, spell the village Boothby Pagnell.[1] The Diocese of Lincoln spells the PCC as Boothby Pagnall.[2] The ecclesiastical parish is part of The North Beltisloe Group of parishes in the Deanery of Beltisloe.[2] The Incumbent is The Rev'd Richard Ireson.[2]
Boothby Pagnell Grade I listed Anglican parish church is dedicated to St Andrew[3] Restored in 1896, it has a Norman tower, font and nave arcades.[4]
The village is just north of Bitchfield and south of Old Somerby on the B1176 and about six miles south-east of Grantham. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 150. Boothby Pagnell forms the most western point of The Ropsley Triangle, which denotes the general area between Ropsley, Boothby Pagnell and Ingoldsby
Boothby Pagnell has a Grade I listed[5] surviving fragment of a medieval manor house, in the Norman style, dating from around 1200 AD.[6][7] Boothby Pagnell was a small community, its population in 1086 being just 19. The village has archeological remains showing in the field known as 'Cooks Close', west of the church, mainly medieval housing, which seems to have fallen into disuse and dereliction by the fourteenth century, possibly as a result of the desertion of the workforce in the aftermath of the Black Death.
Although his uncle William Ayscough, the brother of Hannah Ayscough, was vicar of nearby Burton Coggles, during his time of discovery in 1666-7, Newton spent some time in the summer at the rectory of Boothby Pagnell, which had a considerable orchard. It is unknown whether Newton saw the apple fall at Boothby Pagnell or Woolsthorpe. The vicar was the Trinity College Fellow Humphrey Babington, the brother of Katherine Babington. She was a friend of Hannah Ayscough and the wife of William Clark, the owner of the house at which Newton lodged in Grantham whilst at school.
In his memoirs, Newton noted that he worked on Fluxions (what became differential calculus) at Babington's rectory, and also calculated the area under a hyperbola (involving integral calculus).