High Toynton

High Toynton
Church of St John the Baptist, High Toynton
High Toynton
High Toynton shown within Lincolnshire
OS grid reference	TF284699
• London	115 mi (185 km) S
District	East Lindsey
Shire county	Lincolnshire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	HORNCASTLE
Postcode district	LN9
Dialling code	01507
Police	Lincolnshire
Fire	Lincolnshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
EU Parliament	East Midlands
UK Parliament	Louth and Horncastle
List of places UK England Lincolnshire 53°12′39″N 0°04′43″W / 53.210760°N 0.07873°W / 53.210760; -0.07873Coordinates: 53°12′39″N 0°04′43″W / 53.210760°N 0.07873°W / 53.210760; -0.07873

High Toynton is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) east from the town of Horncastle, and in the Lincolnshire Wolds, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

High Toynton is one of the Thankful Villages that did not suffer fatalities during the First World War.

Around the village has been found evidence of Medieval, Roman or earlier Neolithic and Bronze Age occupation.

In 1885 Kelly's noted the existence of a Wesleyan chapel, built in 1840. The Lord of the Manor was James Banks Stanhope DL JP of Revesby Abbey. High Toynton covered an area of 1,054 acres (4.27 km²) with chief agricultural production of wheat, barley, oats, seeds and turnips, and an 1881 population of 133.

The parish church, dedicated to St John the Baptist, was rebuilt in 1872 of greenstone by Ewan Christian, who reused 12th-century fragments from the previous church erected in 1779. It is a Grade II listed building.

There are two Grade II listed thatched dwellings in High Toynton: an 18th-century mud and stud cottage, and a similar red-brick-encased house.

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