Dunsby

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{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2023}}

{{Use British English|date=October 2014}}

{{Infobox UK place

| static_image_name = All Saints' church, Dunsby, Lincs. - geograph.org.uk - 90714.jpg

| static_image_alt =

| static_image_caption = Church of All Saints, Dunsby

| country = England

| official_name = Dunsby

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| coordinates = {{coord|52.827819|-0.360946|display=inline,title}}

| population = 122

| population_ref = (2011)

| shire_district = South Kesteven

| shire_county = Lincolnshire

| region = East Midlands

| constituency_westminster = Grantham and Bourne

| post_town = Bourne

| postcode_district = PE10

| postcode_area = PE

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| os_grid_reference = TF105268

| london_distance_mi = 90

| london_direction = S

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Dunsby is a small village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of in Lincolnshire, England. It is {{convert|4|mi|km}} north from Bourne, just east off the A15, and on the western edge of the Lincolnshire Fens. In 2001 it had a population of 141,{{Cite web |url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=8&containerAreaId=790460 |title=census 2001 |access-date=8 February 2009 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303201805/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070 |url-status=dead }} reducing to 122 at the 2011 census.{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11122867&c=Dunsby&d=16&e=62&g=6447227&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1463318922117&enc=1|title=Civil parish population 2011|accessdate=15 May 2016|publisher=Office for National Statistics|work=Neighbourhood Statistics}}

The Grade I listed parish church is dedicated to All Saints. Built of ironstone and limestone, it dates from the 12th century, and was restored in 1857. The church is part of the Ringstone in Aveland group of the Deanery of Beltisloe, Diocese of Lincoln. The vicar was the Revd Dr Lynda Pugh between 2012 and 2018. The incumbent is the Revd Neil Bullen.{{National Heritage List for England |num=1165123 |desc=All Saints church, Dunsby|accessdate=4 April 2015}}

The village cross is a medieval scheduled monument sited at a road junction in the village, and consists of the base and {{convert|8|in|cm|0}} of shaft.{{National Heritage List for England |num=1009201 |desc=Village Cross, Dunsby|accessdate=4 April 2015}}{{PastScape|mname=Village Cross, Dunsby|mnumber=350589|accessdate=2 July 2011}}

Dunsby is mentioned in the Domesday Book under the name of Dunesbe.[http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/lincolnshire2.html#dunsbyhacconby Domesday Book]

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Literature

Honniball P (2021) HISTORY OF DUNSBY, a village in South Lincolnshire and of some of the people who have lived there. Privately published 340pp.