Lenton is a hamlet in the district of South Kesteven, Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately 7 miles (11 km) south-east from Grantham, and is part of the Lenton, Keisby and Osgodby civil parish .

Lenton
St Peter's Church, Lenton
Lenton Location within Lincolnshire
OS grid reference	TF025305
• London	95 mi (153 km) S
Civil parish	Lenton, Keisby and Osgodby
District	South Kesteven
Shire county	Lincolnshire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	GRANTHAM
Postcode district	NG33
Dialling code	01476
Police	Lincolnshire
Fire	Lincolnshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
UK Parliament	Grantham and Stamford
List of places UK England Lincolnshire 52.859°N 0.479°W / 52.859; -0.479

Village

The village is sometimes known as Lavington, and the name may have come from the Old English Lâfa, and the characteristic suffix -ton.[1] The village is listed in the Domesday Book as "Lavintone".[2]

Lenton parish church is dedicated to St Peter.[3][4]

The ecclesiastical parish is part of the North Beltisloe Group of parishes[5] in the Deanery of Beltisloe in the Diocese of Lincoln.[6] From 2006 to 2011 the incumbent was The Revd Richard Ireson,[7] who was succeeded by The Revd Mike Doyle in 2012.[8]

The village erected a new Lychgate to mark the Millennium.[4] A previous exhibition to raise funds for the church, The Host of Angels Experience, returned in 2012.[4][8]

Lavington Lake is a local fishing facility.

Other hamlets in the area are Hanby, Keisby Osgodby and Pickworth. Larger villages close by include Ropsley, Folkingham and Ingoldsby.[9]

Lost villages

The village is associated with the site of the lost medieval settlement of Little Lavington, 0.5 miles (0.8 km) to the north-east.[10][11]

South of the village is the site of the lost settlement of Osgodby whose name survives in the name of the parish.[12]

Notable people

• Edward Bradley – vicar of Lenton in the 1870s; under the pen name Cuthbert Bede, writer and illustrator of The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, the story of an Oxford University undergraduate.
• The village is the burial place of the first and second baronets both called Sir William Armyne. They were both leading puritans in Lincolnshire and supporters of the Parliamentary cause in the Civil War.

References

External links

• Media related to Lenton, Lincolnshire at Wikimedia Commons
• "Lenton"; Homepages.which.net. Retrieved 21 April 2012