Revesby, Lincolnshire
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 Church of St Lawrence, Revesby |
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| Revesby shown within Lincolnshire | |
| Population | 243 (Including Miningsby, 2011) |
| OS grid reference | TF299613 |
| • London | 115 mi (185 km) S |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Boston |
| Postcode district | PE22 |
| Police | Lincolnshire |
| Fire | Lincolnshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| EU Parliament | East Midlands |
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Revesby is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated 7 miles (11 km) south-east from Horncastle, 8 miles (13 km) east from Woodhall Spa and 14 miles (23 km) north from Boston, and on the A155. The parish includes the hamlet of Moorhouses 3 miles (5 km) to the south of Revesby village.
The parish includes the site of the Cistercian abbey of SS Mary and Lawrence, founded in 1142 and colonised by monks from Rievaulx Abbey. The abbey was suppressed through the 1538 Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries Act. A post-restoration house was built close to the site of the abbey by Craven Howard. This house was rebuilt in 1849 as Revesby Abbey in Elizabethan style, to the 1843 design of William Burn, architect for Harlaxton Manor, with 330 acres (1 km2) of deer park.English Heritage styles the building Jacobean, with a build date of 1845. Revesby Abbey, with its stable yard, is Grade I listed. The deer park today holds an annual Revesby Country Fair.
The 1885 Kelly's Directory notes Sir Henry James Hawley and James Banks Stanhope DL JP, as principal landowners. Stanhope was Lord of the Manor. The parish is described as partly upland and partly fen, on which chief crops grown were wheat, oats, barley, turnips and mangolds. Parish area was 4,577 acres (18.5 km2), with an 1881 population of 565. Parish occupations in 1885 included twelve farmers, a farm bailiff, gamekeeper, head gardener, blacksmith, carpenter, land agent, surgeon, and the publican at the Red Lion public house. The parish post master was also a crocer and draper.
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