Hemingby

{{Short description|Dispersed village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England}}

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

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

{{Infobox UK place

|country= England

|coordinates= {{coord|53.252698|-0.145719|display=inline,title}}

|official_name= Hemingby

|map_alt=

|static_image_name= St.Margaret's church, Hemingby, Lincs. - geograph.org.uk - 113122.jpg

|static_image_alt=

|static_image_caption= St Margaret's Church, Hemingby

|population= 232

|population_ref= (2011){{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11124461&c=Hemingby&d=16&e=62&g=6446263&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1494117596778&enc=1 |title=Hemingby (Parish): Key Figures for 2011 Census |work=Neighbourhood Statistics |publisher=Office for National Statistics |access-date=7 May 2017}}

|civil_parish= Hemingby

|shire_district= East Lindsey

|shire_county= Lincolnshire

|region= East Midlands

|constituency_westminster= Louth and Horncastle

|post_town= HORNCASTLE

|postcode_district= LN9

|postcode_area= LN

|dial_code= 01507

|os_grid_reference= TF238744

|london_distance_mi= 120

|london_direction= S

}}

Hemingby is a dispersed village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately {{convert|3|mi|km|0}} north from the market town of Horncastle and just west from the junction of the B1225 and A158 roads. It is surrounded by the villages of Baumber, Goulceby and West Ashby. The River Bain and its tributary, the Hemingby Beck, flow through the village.

Hemingby Grade II listed Anglican parish church is dedicated to St. Margaret.{{NHLE|num=1307152 |desc=Church of St Margaret|access-date= 14 October 2011}} Originating in the 14th century it was rebuilt in 1764, and again in 1895.Pevsner, Nikolaus; Harris, John; The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire pp. 272,273; Penguin, (1964); revised by Nicholas Antram in 1989, Yale University Press. {{ISBN|0-300-09620-8}}

File:The Coach and Horses, Hemingby, Lincolnshire. - geograph.org.uk - 193017.jpg

In 1885 Kelly's noted that one of the principal landowners was Earl Manvers. The parish was of {{convert|2527|acre|km2|0}} and chief agricultural production was of barley and turnips. A then reported 1859 Wesleyan Methodist chapel building still exists.{{NHLE|num=1360002 |desc=Methodist Chapel|access-date= 14 October 2011}} A free school was founded in 1727 by Jane Lady Dymoke; her endowment provided for the employment of a school master and mistress, and for the clothing and apprenticeship of school children. She also established four almshouses for poor widows;Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull 1885, p. 474 these are today listed buildings.{{NHLE|num=1062997 |desc=Almshouses|access-date= 14 October 2011}} Further listed buildings are the late 18th-century Rookery cottage,{{NHLE|num=1307116 |desc=The Rookery|access-date= 14 October 2011}} and the mid-18th-century Old Rectory{{NHLE|num=1262362 |desc=The Old Rectory|access-date= 14 October 2011}} with its early 19th-century coach house.{{NHLE|num=1252288 |desc=The Coach House at The Old Rectory|access-date= 14 October 2011}}

The Methodist chapel existed as such until 1978, the building being converted to a private house in 2007.{{Citation needed|date=October 2011}}

The village Coach and Horses public house is a former coaching inn on the old Louth to Lincoln coaching route.{{Citation needed|date=October 2011}}

On 18 April 2007 Radio Lincolnshire briefly changed its name to BBC Radio Hemingby for a day, and broadcast from the village.[https://www.bbc.co.uk/lincolnshire/content/articles/2007/04/18/radio_hemingby_feature.shtml BBC Radio Hemingby], BBC Lincolnshire. Retrieved 14 October 2011