Usselby

Usselby
Church of St Margaret, Usselby
Usselby Location within Lincolnshire
OS grid reference	TF097936
• London	155 mi (249 km) S
Civil parish	Osgodby
District	West Lindsey
Shire county	Lincolnshire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Market Rasen
Postcode district	LN8
Police	Lincolnshire
Fire	Lincolnshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
UK Parliament	Gainsborough

Usselby is a hamlet in civil parish of Osgodby, in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is approximately 3 miles (5 km) north-west from the town of Market Rasen. In 1931 the parish had a population of 54.[1] On 1 April 1936 the parish was abolished to form Osgodby.[2][3]

The parish church is dedicated to Saint Margaret, and is a Grade II listed building dating from the 14th century and 1749, with 1889 alterations in ironstone with red brick by Hodgson Fowler of Sheffield. Over the west door is a tablet inscribed "Queen Ann's bounty fell to this church in MDCCXLIX."[4] The early 18th-century Queen Anne's Bounty acts of parliament provided extra income for poor incumbents.

Usselby Hall is a Grade II listed building dating from the mid-18th century with early 19th-century alterations and additions, and built with red brick. It was owned and lived in by Lord Tennyson's grandfather. During the Second World War it was used as a German Officer Prisoner of War Camp.[5] Usselby Hall now covers most of the site of Usselby deserted medieval village.[6]

Claxby and Usselby railway station opened here in 1848 and closed in 1960.[7]

References

1. "Population statistics Usselby Ch/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 22 November 2023.
2. "Relationships and changes Usselby Ch/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 22 November 2023.
3. "Kirkby cum Osgodby parish council". Parish Councils. Lincolnshire county council. Archived from the original on 3 November 2013. Retrieved 2 November 2013. The administrative civil parish of Osgodby is made up of four villages – Kirkby, Osgodby, Kingerby and Usselby.
4. "St Margarets Church". British Listed Buildings. English Heritage. Retrieved 6 July 2011.
5. "Usselby Hall". British Listed Buildings. English Heritage. Retrieved 6 July 2011.
6. Historic England. "Usselby DMV (892436)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 6 July 2011.
7. Historic England. "Claxby And Usselby railway station (506993)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 6 July 2011.

External links

• Media related to Usselby at Wikimedia Commons