Branston, Lincolnshire
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 All Saints' Church in April 2005 |
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| Branston shown within Lincolnshire | |
| Population | 4,019 (2001 Census) |
| OS grid reference | TF021673 |
| • London | 120 mi (190 km) S |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | LINCOLN |
| Postcode district | LN4 |
| Dialling code | 01522 |
| Police | Lincolnshire |
| Fire | Lincolnshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| EU Parliament | East Midlands |
| UK Parliament | |
Branston is a large village in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. The village is situated approximately 4 miles (6 km) south-east from the city and county town of Lincoln. It is the principal settlement in the civil parish of Branston and Mere (where is population is currently recorded).
In the 2001 Census the population of the parish was recorded as 4019.
The 1086 Domesday Book records a village population as 350, a figure which stayed relatively stable until the beginning of the 20th century when the population began to quickly increase to the current total. The character of the village has changed much over the second half of the 20th Century but the village has retained much of its historic centre – where the majority of buildings are constructed from local limestone.
The village's most notable buildings are Branston Hall and Branston All Saints' Church. There is a rectory house, built in 1765. A now redundant Methodist chapel, built in 1847, is of Gothic style and previously seated 300. A Methodist chapel with seating for 110 was built to the north-east of the village at Branston Moor in 1911.
A war memorial to men of the parish killed in the First World War was erected on the village green in 1920.
The village used to have a railway station which was in the parish of Heighington.
The civil parish of Branston was merged in 1931, with that of Mere, to form the present unit. In the early 1930s parish occupations included twenty-one farmers and one smallholder, two poultry breeders, a horse dealer, a haulage contractor, two coal dealers, a motor bus proprietor, a cycle dealer, a fried fish dealer, three blacksmiths, a wheelwright, a plumber, two carpenters, a boot maker, two butchers, two grocers, three shopkeepers, two tailors, one of whom ran the post office, and landlords of the Waggon and Horses, Plough and Horses, Green Tree, and Anchor public houses.
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