Quarrington | |
St Botolph, Quarrington |
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Quarrington
Quarrington shown within Lincolnshire |
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Population | 242 (2001) |
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OS grid reference | TF054444 |
District | North Kesteven |
Shire county | Lincolnshire |
Region | East Midlands |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Postcode district | NG34 8UL |
Police | Lincolnshire |
Fire | Lincolnshire |
Ambulance | East Midlands |
EU Parliament | East Midlands |
UK Parliament | Sleaford and North Hykeham |
List of places: UK • England • Lincolnshire |
Quarrington is a suburb of the market town of Sleaford, in England. Its origins can be traced back to Anglo-Saxon times[1] when it was a hamlet of c.1,500 acres.
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Quarrington Parish Church was mentioned in the Domesday Book.[2] The present church building, which dates back to the early 13th century and is dedicated to St. Botolph, is built of Ancaster stone.
The ancient parish of Quarrington lay within Kesteven's Aswardhurn wapentake and is now served by North Kesteven District Council. The Ecclesiastical Parish of Quarrington merged with that of Old Sleaford (part of the ancient manor of Eslaforde) following the destruction of St Giles Church, however it was not until March 1888 that the Civil Parish of Quarrington gained a portion of Old Sleaford Civil Parish.
Quarrington has been included in the Sleaford sub-district of the Sleaford Registration District since Civil Registration started in July 1837.
The Kesteven County Asylum was erected here, near the parish's north western border with South Rauceby, at the end of the 19th century. After the hospital closed in 1998, a large housing development has taken its place with the whole site and its adjoining Rauceby railway station renamed as Greylees.
Quarrington's Public Elementary School on Grantham Road was built in 1868 and later enlarged to hold 190 children. Now known as St Botolph's Church of England Primary School, the school moved to its present site in 2002. It is a two form entry primary school with a capacity for 420 girls and boys ranging from 4 to 11 years old.[3]
In the early 1900s a large additional church was designed and planned to be built on donated land in the parish but closer to Sleaford town. The First World War and the changing of the parish boundary from the River Slea to the railway line in 1928 scuppered these plans. The money that had been raised was instead used to purchase a prime site on Grantham Road and to build a large church hall in 1932. Whilst owned and managed by the PCC, this hall is very heavily used, largely by non-church community activities.[4]