Roxby, Lincolnshire

Coordinates: 53°38′26″N 0°36′44″W / 53.640645°N 0.612205°W / 53.640645; -0.612205
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Roxby
St Mary's Church, Roxby
Roxby is located in Lincolnshire
Roxby
Roxby
Location within Lincolnshire
OS grid referenceSE918169
• London150 mi (240 km) S
Civil parish
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townScunthorpe
Postcode districtDN15
Dialling code01724
PoliceHumberside
FireHumberside
AmbulanceEast Midlands
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Lincolnshire
53°38′26″N 0°36′44″W / 53.640645°N 0.612205°W / 53.640645; -0.612205

Roxby is a village in

Humber Estuary
.

Roxby has fewer than 500 inhabitants, and forms part of the civil parish of Roxby cum Risby (where population details are included),[1] which also includes the hamlet of Dragonby.[2]

Roxby

St Mary.[3] The church, of 12th century origin with 14th century additions,[3] is of Decorated style, and was restored and partly rebuilt in 1875 by James Fowler.[4]

In 1719

Scunthorpe Museum. Later excavations by the Humberside Archaeology Unit concluded that the mosaic was part of an aisled structure with the mosaic forming the flooring for a suite of rooms at one end of the villa which may have been up to 22 yards (20 m) wide and 55 yards (50 m) long.[citation needed
]

Although no railway line runs directly to Roxby, a major landfill site is situated a few miles away in a disused ironstone quarry. This is served by the remnants of the North Lindsey Light Railway over which trainloads of household rubbish were transported in containers from various locations in the Greater Manchester area.[5]


References

  1. ^ "Roxby cum Risby CP". Vision of Britain. University of Portsmouth. Archived from the original on 24 December 2012. Retrieved 30 June 2011.
  2. Genuki
    .org.uk. Retrieved 30 June 2011.
  3. ^ a b Historic England. "Church of St Mary (1260342)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 22 July 2011.
  4. ^ a b Cox, J. Charles (1916) Lincolnshire p. 254; Methuen & Co. Ltd
  5. ISBN 978-1-85794-299-6
    .

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