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Somerby (Juxta Bigby), Lincolnshire

Somerby
Church of St. Margaret , Somerby - geograph.org.uk - 118715.jpg
St Margaret's Church, Somerby
Somerby is located in Lincolnshire
Somerby
Somerby
Somerby shown within Lincolnshire
OS grid reference TA061066
• London 145 mi (233 km) S
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District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Ulceby
Postcode district DN38
Police Lincolnshire
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Lincolnshire
53°32′45″N 0°24′01″W / 53.54575200°N 0.40017074°W / 53.54575200; -0.40017074Coordinates: 53°32′45″N 0°24′01″W / 53.54575200°N 0.40017074°W / 53.54575200; -0.40017074

Somerby is a hamlet in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately 4 miles (6 km) east from the town of Brigg, and is in the civil parish of Searby cum Owmby and the ecclesiastical parish of Somerby Somerby lies in the Lincolnshire Wolds, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, between the villages of Bigby and Searby.

The parish church, once described as a "small uninteresting edifice", is a Grade II* listed building. It is dedicated to Saint Margaret and dates from the 13th century with later additions. It was restored in 1884-85 by H. M. Townsend of Peterborough. An effigy of a knight dating from the late 13th century lies on the south side of the nave. In chancel niches are two marble urns dedicated to two sons of the Weston family who died in the service of the East India Company in 1762 and 1767, respectively. Another Weston, Edward, is commemorated by a large marble wall plaque on the north wall of the chancel. He died in 1770, and was a member of the Privy Council of Ireland.

About 1834 the value of the living, based at the rectory and in the grant of the Crown, was £7. 7s. 6d. A few years earlier, in 1821, the hamlet comprised 13 houses, with a population of 76.


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