Candlesby
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Candlesby is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Candlesby with Gunby, in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated east from Spilsby. Gunby is a hamlet about east from Candlesby. In 1961 the parish had a population of 144.
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- East Lindsey
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- England
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- United Kingdom
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Candlesby is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Candlesby with Gunby, in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated east from Spilsby. Gunby is a hamlet about east from Candlesby. In 1961 the parish had a population of 144.
==History== Candleby appears in the Domesday Book as "Calnodesbi", in the Wapentake of Candleshoe. Although wapentakes were abandoned as local government units in the 1890s, the Candleshoe name lives on as the local Deanery.
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