Quarrington, Lincolnshire

Quarrington

St Botolph, Quarrington
Quarrington

 Quarrington shown within Lincolnshire
Population 242 (2001)
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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History

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.

Amenities

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]

References

  1. ^ Dickinson, Tania M. (2004). "An early Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Quarrington, near Sleaford, Lincolnshire: Report on excavations, 2000-2001". Lincolnshire History and Archaeology (Lincoln, England, United Kingdom: Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology) (39): 24–45. http://ruby.wheal.net/SLHA/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/39Journal2004. Retrieved 7 December 2010. "The early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries in the Kesteven part of Lincolnshire form two distinctive distribution patterns: a north-south line along, or just to the west of, the former Roman towns of Lincoln and Ancaster, of which the best known is an outlier near its southern tip, a large mixed-rite site at Loveden Hill; and a cluster in the south-east, of which the best known are Ruskington and Sleaford, essentially inhumation cemeteries but with a handful of cremations each. This paper reports on the excavation of a small inhumation burial site just 2.5 km west-south-west of the Sleaford cemetery in the parish of Quarrington. A detailed illustrated catalogue of graves and grave goods forms a large part of the report; relevant references to both specific field work reports and general texts are included." 
  2. ^ "Quarrington Walk". Sleaford, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom: North Kesteven District Council. http://www.n-kesteven.gov.uk/section.asp?docId=3165. Retrieved 7 December 2010. "Quarrington is a small village approximately one and a quarter miles south west of Sleaford, although the parish extends as far as the railway line, (the old boundary was Nags Head Passage). It is mentioned in the Domesday Survey of 1086 as both Corninctune and Corninctone and was said to have two churches and a mill although no documented or archaeological evidence has been found for the mill. The presence of a mill is reflected in the name Quarrington which is a derivation of the Old English word 'cweorn' meaning mill and 'tun' meaning homestead - the miller's homestead. The area through which the walk passes is used for both agriculture and suburban housing. Much of the urban spread from Sleaford took place with the coming of the railway - the line from Barkston to Sleaford opening in 1857, and the extension through to Boston in 1859. In 1824 however, a Saxon cemetery was discovered in the area of the station. Evidence of more burials was found in 1852 prior to the Boston extension and again in 1858 when the station was widened." 
  3. ^ "About Our School". Quarrington, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom: St Botolph's Church of England Primary School. http://www.quarrington.lincs.sch.uk/about_our_school/index.html. Retrieved 7 December 2010. 
  4. ^ Quarrington and Old Sleaford Parochial Church Council (March 2009) (PDF). Benefice Profile and Statement of Need: Quarrington, Cranwell and Silk Willoughby in the Deanery of Lafford and the Diocese of Lincoln. Diocese of Lincoln. p. 5. http://www.lincoln.anglican.org/pdf_view.php?id=406. Retrieved 7 December 2010. 

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