Loveden

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| name = Loveden

| settlement_type = Deanery

| image_skyline = Geograph-391716-Loveden-Hill-by-Ken-Brockway.jpg

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| image_caption = Loveden Hill, alleged meeting place of the wapentake

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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Lincolnshire, north of Grantham and west of Sleaford

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| subdivision_name = England

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| subdivision_name1 = Lincolnshire

| subdivision_type2 = Diocese

| subdivision_name2 = Diocese of Lincoln

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Loveden is a deanery of the Diocese of Lincoln, England,{{cite web|url=http://www.lincoln.anglican.org/deanery.php?id=23|title=Deanery details on Diocese web site|access-date=2010-07-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090801034405/http://www.lincoln.anglican.org/deanery.php?id=23|archive-date=2009-08-01|url-status=dead}} and a former wapentake.{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53616#s15|title=Notes about the wapentake from 'Introduction: Lost vills and other forgotten places', Final Concords of the County of Lincoln: 1244-1272 (1920), ed:C.W. Foster, pp. L-LXV.}}

Loveden is located broadly to the North of Grantham and includes the villages from Long Bennington in the west to Culverthorpe in the east, and from Welby in the south as far north as Welbourn. Brandon is roughly in the centre.

Loveden Hill is locally supposed{{cite web|url=http://old.loveden.org.uk/history.html|title=old.loveden.org.uk, mentioning use of Loveden Hill}} to be the meeting place for the early Wapentake summons, and is the site of both Roman and extensive Anglo-Saxon archaeology. {{cite web|url=http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=325833|title=National Monument record for urn burials etc. on Loveden Hill}}

The name is used for an STD telephone exchange, code 01400.