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Kirkstead
Sign in to saveKirkstead is a village and former civil parish now in the parish of Woodhall Spa, in the East Lindsey district, in Lincolnshire, England, on the River Witham. In 1961 the parish had a population of 85. It was merged with the civil parish of Woodhall Spa in 1987.
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- Locality
- East Lindsey
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 4,331
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Kirkstead is a village and former civil parish now in the parish of Woodhall Spa, in the East Lindsey district, in Lincolnshire, England, on the River Witham. In 1961 the parish had a population of 85. It was merged with the civil parish of Woodhall Spa in 1987.
==History== Kirkstead has its origins in a Cistercian monastery, Kirkstead Abbey (the name Kirkstead means "the site of a church") founded in 1139 by Hugh Brito, lord of Tattershall and originally colonised by an abbot and twelve monks from Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire. It was around this abbey that the little settlement of Kirkstead grew. The abbey remained in existence until 1537, when it was dissolved and Richard Harrison (the last Abbot) and three of his monks were executed by King Henry VIII following their implication (probably unjustly) in the Lincolnshire Rising of the previous year.
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