Kelstern

Kelstern

St Faith’s Church, Kelstern
Kelstern
Kelstern shown within Lincolnshire
OS grid reference TF252903
• London 135 mi (217 km) S
Civil parish
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Louth
Postcode district LN11
Police Lincolnshire
Fire Lincolnshire
Ambulance East Midlands
EU Parliament East Midlands
UK Parliament

Kelstern is a hamlet in the civil parish of Calcethorpe with Kelstern, in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.

The village is situated north from the A631 road, 5 miles (8.0 km) north-west from Louth and 4 miles (6 km) south-east from Binbrook. The parish includes the hamlets of Calcethorpe to the south of Kelstern, and Lambcroft to the north.[1]

Kelstern Grade II listed parish church[2] is dedicated to St Faith and is Early English in origin, but was restored in 1886.[3] The Calcethorpe with Kelstern ecclesiastical parish is now incorporated into the larger grouping of the Binbrook Group of Parishes.[4]

Calcethorpe, with South Cadeby, immediately to its south, is the site of lost medieval villages of the same names, managed by Defra to preserve wildlife.[5]

To the east of the village are Bronze Age barrows.[1]

In 1917 RAF Kelstern was established adjacent to the village as a First World War airfield,[6] and in 1942 became the Second World War home to No. 625 Squadron RAF.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 Kelly’s Directory of Lincolnshire with the Port of Hull, 1885, p. 500
  2. ↑ Church of St Faith, Calcethorpe With Kelstern, British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 22 June 2011
  3. ↑ Kelstern, Genuki.org.uk Retrieved 22 June 2011
  4. ↑ Kelstern Archived 28 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine., binbrook.org.uk. Retrieved 22 June 2011
  5. ↑ Calcethorpe and South Cadeby, defra.gov.uk. Retrieved 22 June 2011
  6. ↑ RAF Kelstern, raf-lincolnshire.info. Retrieved 22 June 2011
  7. ↑ Kelstern – Bomber Command. Retrieved 22 June 2011
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