Kelstern
Coordinates: 53°23′41″N 0°07′05″W / 53.394855°N 0.117945°W
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 2 Kelly’s Directory of Lincolnshire with the Port of Hull, 1885, p. 500
- ↑ Church of St Faith, Calcethorpe With Kelstern, British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 22 June 2011
- ↑ Kelstern, Genuki.org.uk Retrieved 22 June 2011
- ↑ Kelstern, binbrook.org.uk. Retrieved 22 June 2011
- ↑ Calcethorpe and South Cadeby, defra.gov.uk. Retrieved 22 June 2011
- ↑ RAF Kelstern, raf-lincolnshire.info. Retrieved 22 June 2011
- ↑ Kelstern – Bomber Command. Retrieved 22 June 2011
External links
Media related to Kelstern at Wikimedia Commons
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