Aswardby

Aswardby
Aswardby
	Church of St Helen, Aswardby
	Aswardby Location within Lincolnshire
OS grid reference	TF377703
• London	115 mi (185 km) S
District	East Lindsey;
Shire county	Lincolnshire;
Region	East Midlands;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Spilsby
Postcode district	PE23
Police	Lincolnshire
Fire	Lincolnshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
UK Parliament	Louth and Horncastle;
	List of places UK England Lincolnshire 53°12′45″N 0°03′42″E / 53.2126°N 0.06163°E

Aswardby (pronounced "as-ard-bee") is a village situated 4 miles (6 km) north-west from Spilsby,^[1] in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.

Geography

It lies north of the A158 and west of the A16 roads. It is in the civil parish of Sausthorpe.

Aswardby should not be confused with Aswarby, which is also in Lincolnshire, but about 35 miles (56 km) south-west of Aswardby.

History

Fr T. Pelham Dale, SSC, prosecuted and imprisoned for Ritualist practices in 1876 and 1880, and regarded a martyr by Anglo-Catholics, was the parish priest from 1881 to 1892.^{[citation needed]}

Aswardby Hall was built approximately 1845, with further building works completed around 1910.

World War II

A Luftwaffe squadron 'Küstenfliegergruppe 106' at Dinard–Pleurtuit, now Dinard–Pleurtuit–Saint-Malo Airport planned to bomb a De Havilland Propellers plant at Lostock in Lancashire, but bombed north-west Derbyshire and machine-gunned Chatsworth House, instead. The Luftwaffe squadron had taken off from Lanvéoc-Poulmic, which is now the Lanvéoc-Poulmic Naval Air Base.

On the south-eastern return leg of the journey in early July 1942 at 8.20pm, the two Ju 88 aircraft were attacked by Spitfires of 303 Sqn of RAF Kirton in Lindsey. Ju 88 'M2-KK' was hit by Tadeusz Kolecki and Aleksandrr Rokitnicki, and crash landed at 8.30pm, towards Harrington, Lincolnshire.^[2] The Germans spoke excellent English, were smartly dressed, and said 'your Spitfires are too good for us'. The Germans liked the local scenery as well, and were taken to Skegness. The other Ju 88 crashed at Baumber, but all four Germans were killed.

References

↑ "A Vision of Britain through Time: Aswardby, Lincolnshire". www.visionofbritain.org.uk. Vision of Britain. Retrieved 24 August 2012.
↑ Horncastle News Saturday 11 July 1942, page 4

External links

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[1] "A Vision of Britain through Time: Aswardby, Lincolnshire". www.visionofbritain.org.uk. Vision of Britain. Retrieved 24 August 2012.

[2] Horncastle News Saturday 11 July 1942, page 4

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