Scamblesby
{{Short description|Village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district from Lincolnshire, England}}
{{Use British English|date=January 2014}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox UK place
| static_image_name= Scamblesby - geograph.org.uk - 44325.jpg
| static_image_alt=
| static_image_caption= Scamblesby village
| country = England
| official_name= Scamblesby
| map_alt=
| coordinates = {{coord|53.290771|-0.086484|display=inline,title}}
| population= 228
| population_ref= (Including Cawkwell. 2011 census){{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11128235&c=LN11+9SG&d=16&e=62&g=6446048&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1440150411076&enc=1|title=Parish population 2011|access-date=21 August 2015}}
| shire_district= East Lindsey
| shire_county = Lincolnshire
| region= East Midlands
| constituency_westminster= Gainsborough
| post_town= Louth
| postcode_district = LN11
| postcode_area= LN
| dial_code=
| os_grid_reference= TF276787
| london_distance_mi= 125
| london_direction= S
}}
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Scamblesby is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district from Lincolnshire, England. It is situated {{convert|6|mi|km|0}} south-west from Louth, on the A153 road, and within the Lincolnshire Wolds, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
History
In 1185, Roger de Maletoth gave a bovate, around 20 acres of land, at Scamblesby, to the Knights Templar.{{cite book|first=William |last=Farrer|title=Honors and Knights' Fees: Chester, Huntingdon|year=1924|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WfwUAAAAQAAJ|publisher=Printed for the author, by Spottiswoode, Ballntyne & co|page=172}}
In 1507, the prebend of Scamblesby was held by Polydore Vergil, an Italian historian and priest, who had moved to England in 1502.{{cite book|first=Catherine |last=Atkinson|title=Inventing Inventors in Renaissance Europe: Polydore Vergil's De Inventoribus Rerum|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E4tpcK2fZMcC&pg=PA291|year=2007|publisher=Mohr Siebeck|isbn=978-3-16-149187-0|page=291}} Vergil held the prebend until 1513 but lived mainly in London.{{cite journal | title = otes on the Work of Polydore Vergil "De Inventoribus Rerum" | journal = Isis | date = 1932 | first1 = John | last1 = Ferguson | first2= Elizabeth H. |last2=Alexander | volume = 17 | issue = 1 | pages = 71–93| jstor = 224628 | doi=10.1086/346638| s2cid = 143520469 }}
In 1672, Herbert Thorndike, Canon of Westminster Abbey, left the 'lands and tenements' he owned in Scamblesby, to be held in trust, to provide a 'perpetual vicarage' for the local church.{{cite book|first=White (bp. of Peterborough.)|last=Kennett|title=The case of impropriations, and of the augmentation of vicarages ... stated by history and law [by W. Kennett.]. [interleaved and with the author's MS. additions].|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UnJbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PT73|year=1704|pages=72–73}}
The village Anglican parish church is dedicated to St Martin. It was partially rebuilt in the 1890s and seats around 100.{{citation needed|date=May 2012}}
Education
In 2007 Scamblesby Church of England Primary School achieved examination grades higher than the local and the national average.{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/education/07/school_tables/primary_schools/html/925_3140.stm |title=Scamblesby Church of England Primary School |access-date=13 January 2008 |website=BBC News | date=6 December 2007}} Its 2012 Ofsted inspection judgements rated the school as Grade 2 (good) overall.[http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/inspection-reports/find-inspection-report/provider/ELS/120584 "Scamblesby Church of England Primary School"]; Ofsted report 2012. PDF download required. Retrieved 21 May 2012 The school has a website found [http://www.scamblesby.lincs.sch.uk/ here]
References
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External links
- {{Commons category-inline|Scamblesby}}
- [http://www.scamblesby.net/ Scamblesby Village website]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060427002503/http://www.e-lindsey.gov.uk/ East Lindsey District Council website]
- [http://www.scamblesby.lincs.sch.uk/ Scamblesby Church of England Primary School web site]
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{{Lincolnshire|state=collapsed}}
{{East Lindsey (district) |state=collapsed}}
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Category:Villages in Lincolnshire