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All Saints' church, Canwick |
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Canwick
Canwick shown within Lincolnshire |
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| OS grid reference | SK 98454 69519 |
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| District | North Kesteven |
| Shire county | Lincolnshire |
| Region | East Midlands |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Lincoln |
| Postcode district | LN4 |
| Police | Lincolnshire |
| Fire | Lincolnshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| EU Parliament | East Midlands |
| UK Parliament | Sleaford and North Hykeham |
| List of places: UK • England • Lincolnshire | |
Canwick is village and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies two miles south of the city of Lincoln. The village, with commanding views of Lincoln, overlooks the Witham Valley, where the River Witham follows an ice-age cut through the jurassic limestone ridge which forms the spine of the county.
Canwick has been continuously occupied since Saxon times (the name derives from Canna’s Farm or Canna’s Place in Anglo-Saxon), but there was a significant villa here in the Roman period.
Canwick Grade I listed Anglican church is dedicated to All Saints.[1] It is a Saxon-era foundation, but was significantly improved by the same Norman bishops who built Lincoln Cathedral. Subsequent enlargement and restoration has not harmed the original fabric.[says who?] The church is built on a Roman tesselated pavement, and a coin of the first Christian Emperor Constantine has been found in the churchyard. The church patronage is held by the Mercers’ Company, oldest of the London city Livery Companies.
Canwick Hall was the seat of the Sibthorp family from the 17thC – 20thC, with the present structure being erected in 1810. Family members included the botanist John Sibthorp and several MPs, most notably the eccentric Colonel Sibthorp. Having already angered Queen Victoria by his vocal opposition to an allowance for her consort Prince Albert, he went on to declare that the Prince's Great Exhibition project would bring the plague to England. The Hall was later home of Arthur Foljambe, 2nd Earl of Liverpool from 1939 to his death there in 1941.
Significant new housing development took place in Canwick during the 1960s and the United Kingdom Census 2001 records 339 inhabitants and 150 households. Canwick is a civil as well as an ecclesiastical parish.