Barlings

{{Short description|Hamlet in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2021}} {{Use British English|date=October 2014}} {{Infobox UK place |country = England |static_image_name = Barlings Farm Cottage - geograph.org.uk - 458053.jpg |static_image_caption =Farm cottage, Barlings |coordinates = {{coord|53.258500|-0.39045|display=inline,title}} |label_position = top |official_name = Barlings |population = 460 |population_ref = ( Including Langworth. 2011) |shire_district = West Lindsey |shire_county = Lincolnshire |metropolitan_borough = | metropolitan_county = |region= East Midlands |constituency_westminster = Gainsborough (UK Parliament constituency) |post_town = Lincoln |postcode_district =LN3 |postcode_area = LN |dial_code = |os_grid_reference = TF074747 | london_distance_mi= 120 | london_direction= S }} '''Barlings''' and '''Low Barlings''' are two small hamlets lying south off the A158 road at Langworth, about {{convert|7|mi|km|0}} east of Lincoln in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. Low Barlings is a scattered collection of homes, situated along a trackway south from Barlings towards boggy ground near the River Witham. Both hamlets are in the civil parish of Barlings. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 460.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11120382&c=Barlings&d=16&e=62&g=6447659&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1461261162141&enc=1|title=Civil parish population 2011|accessdate=21 April 2016|publisher=Office for National Statistics|work=Neighbourhood Statistics}}</ref>

==History== Barlings is listed in the Domesday Book as "Berlinge".<ref>{{OpenDomesday|TF0774|barlings|Barlings}}</ref>

Barlings includes the Grade II listed church of St Edward the Confessor,<ref>{{NHLE|num=1064015|desc=St Edwards's church|grade=II|accessdate=25 March 2013}}</ref> and Grade I listed Barlings Abbey ruins.<ref>{{NHLE|num=1064016|desc=Fragment of Barlings Abbey|grade=II|accessdate=25 March 2013| fewer-links=x}}</ref><ref>{{NHLE|num=1064017|desc=Fragment of abbey church|grade=I|accessdate=25 March 2013| fewer-links=x}}</ref> Other listed buildings include a hall, house and farm house.<ref>{{NHLE|num=1147705|desc=Barlings Hall, Low Barlings|grade=II|accessdate=25 March 2013| fewer-links=x}}</ref><ref>[http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/england/lincolnshire/barlings "Barlings"], British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 25 June 2011</ref> Part of the parish was once a medieval deer park.<ref>{{cite PastScape |mnumber=893446 |mname=Barlings deer park |accessdate=25 March 2013| fewer-links=x}}</ref> thumb|left|Barlings Abbey 1726 {{clear left}} There are no standing remains of Barlings Abbey but the main building outside the monastic church has been interpreted as a detached monastic household such as the abbot's lodging. This building was reformed as a post-dissolution secular residence of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, who used it as a vice-regal palace. Brandon was King Henry VIII's vice-regent in Lincolnshire in the wake of the Lincolnshire Rising.<ref>Everson, P and Stocker, D 2003. 'The archaeology of vice-regality: Charles Brandon’s brief rule in Lincolnshire' in eds David Gaimster and Roberta Gilchrist, The Archaeology of Reformation c 1480-1580, Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology monograph 1, 145-58.</ref>

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==External links== * {{Commons category-inline|Barlings}} * [http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?client=public&X=508000&Y=374000&scale=25000&width=700&height=400&gride=507660.249462269&gridn=374609.463969902&lang=&db=freegaz Aerial view of Barlings]

Category:Villages in Lincolnshire Category:Civil parishes in Lincolnshire Category:West Lindsey District