Haconby

The village name means Haakon's village.[https://books.google.com/books?id=fxQLAAAAQAAJ&dq=haconby+etymology&pg=PA134 Taylor, Isaac; Words and places: or, Etymological illustrations of history, ethnology...] The village church is dedicated to St Andrew. On 27 February 2008 the parish church spire was damaged by the 2008 Lincolnshire earthquake.{{Citation needed|date=August 2011}}

A former railway line passed north to south close to the east of the village – the Sleaford branch of the Great Northern Railway, which closed to passengers in 1930 and to freight in 1964. A Roman road, King Street, (from Bourne to just south of Ancaster) passes through the western part of the parish, just west of Stainfield. There was an Iron Age or Roman town near Stainfield.{{cite web|title=Iron age settlement at Stainfield|url=http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MLI34920&resourceID=1006|work=Lincolnshire HER|publisher=English Heritage|accessdate=8 September 2013|quote=work carried out in advance of a gas pipeline identified iron age field boundaries, ditches and a storage pit. it is suggested that Stainfield Roman settlement was established in the late iron age before the Roman road of King Street was constructed}}{{cite web|title=The Coritani|url=http://www.roman-britain.org/tribes/coritani.htm|work=The Celtic Tribes of Britain|publisher=Roman-britain.org|access-date=8 September 2013|quote=Stainfield, nr. Hacconby (Lincolnshire) – Suspected posting station or small settlement on King Street between Sapperton and Bourne|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131106030324/http://www.roman-britain.org/tribes/coritani.htm|archive-date=6 November 2013}}{{cite web|last=Holtom|first=Chris|title=Stainfield|url=http://parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk/HacconbyandStainfield/section.asp?docId=62616|work=Hacconby and Stainfield Parish Council|publisher=Lincolnshire.gov.uk|accessdate=8 September 2013}}

Stainfield Spa, {{convert|1.5|mi|km|1}} to the west of the village, is a chalybeate spring discovered in 1720 by Edward Greathead of Lincoln.

File:Car Dyke at Haconby - geograph.org.uk - 144745.jpg at Haconby]]

Haconby is situated just off the A15. {{convert|2|mi|km|spell=In}} to the west is Stainfield, part of the civil parish. To the south of the village is Hacconby Hall.

File:Stainfield Spa from the footpath access - geograph.org.uk - 312144.jpg

The civil parish extends northwards to just north of the A15-B1177 junction, skirting the southern edge of Dunsby Hall Farm. The parish boundary extends due east, along the Hacconby Lode drain over Hacconby Fen, following Hacconby Drove to the south. To the north is the parish of Dunsby and Dunsby Fen. It reaches the South Forty-Foot Drain. The parish boundary (also with Pinchbeck and South Holland) follows this drain for just under a mile south. It then follows Lane Dike due west which crosses the Car Dyke just north of Cardyke Farm. The parish boundary crosses the A15 next to a transmitter and extends westwards to reach the north of Spring Wood, where it meets the large parish of Edenham. Just south of Thorny Wood it meets the parish of Dunsby. The parish boundary follows the southern edge of Dunsby Wood, crossing the Stainfield–Kirkby Underwood road just north of Stainfield Spa.{{cite map |publisher=Ordnance survey of Great Britain |title=Bourne & Heckington:Billingborough & Morton |date=3 January 2006 |scale=1:25 000 |series=OS Explorer |section=248 |edition=A1 |isbn=9780319238110}}

There are no amenities in the village other than the local public house, the Hare and Hounds on West Road. The nearest post office and shops are in the adjacent village of Morton to the south.

The primary school closed in the 1970s.{{Citation needed|date=August 2011}}

The civil parish covers the villages of Haconby and Stainfield. It is part of the Ringstone in Aveland group of the Deanery of Beltisloe, Diocese of Lincoln. The vicar was the Rev Dr Lynda Pugh between 2012 and 2018. The incumbent is the Revd Neil Bullen. Local democracy is provided by Haconby and Stainfield Parish Council.{{cite web|title=Haconby and Stainfield parish council|url=http://parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk/HacconbyandStainfield/index.asp?catId=15367|publisher=Lincolnshire.gov.uk|accessdate=8 September 2013}}

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• {{Commons category-inline|Haconby}}
• [http://parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk/HacconbyandStainfield "Hacconby and Stainfield Parish Council"], Lincolnshire.gov.uk
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20080313102050/http://homepages.which.net/~rex/bourne/haconby.htm "Haconby"], The villages around Bourne, Lincolnshire, England, Homepages.which.net
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20090227061134/http://homepages.which.net/~rex/bourne/stainfield.htm "Stainfield"], The villages around Bourne, Lincolnshire, England, Homepages.which.net
• {{cite web|publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth|title=Hacconby Lincolnshire|work=A Vision of Britain through Time. |url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/12483 |accessdate=8 September 2013}}

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