Cadney cum Howsham
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Cadney cum Howsham is a civil parish
Civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation and, where they are found, the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties...

 in North Lincolnshire
North Lincolnshire
North Lincolnshire is a unitary authority area in the region of Yorkshire and the Humber in England. For ceremonial purposes it is part of Lincolnshire....

, England, that consists of the small villages of Cadney
Cadney
Cadney is a village in the civil parish of Cadney cum Howsham in North Lincolnshire, England. It lies 3 mile south of Brigg...

 and Howsham
Howsham, Lincolnshire
Howsham is a village in the civil parish of Cadney cum Howsham in North Lincolnshire, England....

, several farms, and mainly arable farmland
Arable land
In geography and agriculture, arable land is land that can be used for growing crops. It includes all land under temporary crops , temporary meadows for mowing or pasture, land under market and kitchen gardens and land temporarily fallow...

.

The parish boundary is defined by water on all sides, by the Old River Ancholme
River Ancholme
The River Ancholme is a river in North Lincolnshire, England, and a tributary of the Humber estuary.It rises south of Bishopbridge and passes through many Lincolnshire villages and the market town of Brigg before flowing north into the Humber at South Ferriby.North of Bishopbridge, where the River...

, Kettleby Beck and North Kelsey Beck.

Within the parish, at Newstead on the River Ancholme, lies the site of the Gilbertine
Gilbertine Order
The Gilbertine Order of Canons Regular was founded around 1130 by Saint Gilbert in Sempringham, Lincolnshire, where Gilbert was the parish priest...

 Holy Trinity Priory, founded by Henry II
Henry II of England
Henry II ruled as King of England , Count of Anjou, Count of Maine, Duke of Normandy, Duke of Aquitaine, Duke of Gascony, Count of Nantes, Lord of Ireland and, at various times, controlled parts of Wales, Scotland and western France. Henry, the great-grandson of William the Conqueror, was the...

 in 1171, and endowed with the island of Ancholme, and lands around Cadney
Cadney
Cadney is a village in the civil parish of Cadney cum Howsham in North Lincolnshire, England. It lies 3 mile south of Brigg...

 and Hardwick. The priory was limited to 13 canon
Canon (priest)
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s and lay brother
Lay brother
In the most common usage, lay brothers are those members of Catholic religious orders, particularly of monastic orders, occupied primarily with manual labour and with the secular affairs of a monastery or friary, in contrast to the choir monks of the same monastery who are devoted mainly to the...

s. It was surrendered in 1538 under the act of suppression
Dissolution of the Monasteries
The Dissolution of the Monasteries, sometimes referred to as the Suppression of the Monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541 by which Henry VIII disbanded monasteries, priories, convents and friaries in England, Wales and Ireland; appropriated their...

. On the site of the priory stands Newstead Priory Farmhouse, which retains the remains of a Norman
Norman architecture
About|Romanesque architecture, primarily English|other buildings in Normandy|Architecture of Normandy.File:Durham Cathedral. Nave by James Valentine c.1890.jpg|thumb|200px|The nave of Durham Cathedral demonstrates the characteristic round arched style, though use of shallow pointed arches above the...

 vaulted room and a Perpendicular window. The farm is Grade I listed.

In 2011 the Parish Council launched its own website.

External links

  • "Cadney (Cadney with Housham"), Genuki
    GENUKI
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    .org.uk
    . Retrieved 14 November 2011
  • Cadney cum Howsham, Parish website. Retrieved 14 November 2011
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