Hemswell Cliff is a village

Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

 and civil parish

Civil parish

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 in the West Lindsey

West Lindsey

West Lindsey is a local government district in Lincolnshire, England.-History:The district was formed on 1 April 1974, from the urban districts of Gainsborough, Market Rasen, along with Caistor Rural District, Gainsborough Rural District and Welton Rural District...

 district of Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...

, England. It lies on the A631

A631 road

The A631 is a road running from Sheffield, South Yorkshire to Louth, Lincolnshire in England. It passes through the counties of South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire. The road has many towns on its route including Rotherham, Maltby, Gainsborough and Market Rasen. It is mostly single...

 between Caenby Corner

Caenby Corner

Caenby Corner is a small settlement in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies at the junction of the A15 and A631, 10 miles north of Lincoln....

 and Gainsborough

Gainsborough, Lincolnshire

Gainsborough is a town 15 miles north-west of Lincoln on the River Trent within the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. At one time it served as an important port with trade downstream to Hull, and was the most inland in England, being more than 55 miles from the North...

 and on the Lincoln Cliff

Lincoln Cliff

The Lincoln Cliff is the portion of a major escarpment that runs north-south through Lindsey and Kesteven, in central Lincolnshire and is a prominent landscape feature in a generally flat portion of the county...

 escarpment. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 683.

RAF Hemswell

RAF Hemswell

RAF Hemswell was an airfield used by RAF Bomber Command for 20 years between 1937 and 1957 and saw most of its operational life during World War II. Later used by RAF Fighter Command as a nuclear ballistic missile base during the Cold War it closed to military use in 1967...

 was located on the site from 1937 until it closed in 1967. The airfield site was subsequently redeveloped into a private trading estate and the RAF married quarters into a Residential area

Residential area

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 which became a newly created civil parish of Hemswell Cliff. The old village of Hemswell

Hemswell

Hemswell is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies just north of the A631 on the Lincoln Cliff escarpment, west from Caenby Corner and east from Gainsborough...

 remains as a separate parish.

By mid 2008 there was no longer any RAF presence on the site and it is now all civilian

Civilian

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. The RAF sold the community centre in 2009 and since then the new owners, an educational charity have spent considerable money refurbishing it with a view to reopening the facility in 2010 for use by the local community.

The old H Block buildings on the site have now become home to one of the Europe's largest antique centres and there are also various shops, a garden centre

Garden centre

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, hairdresser

Hairdresser

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, used book

Used book

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 shop and several cafés

Coffeehouse

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. On Sundays there is a very large Sunday market and car boot sale

Car boot sale

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.

Hemswell Cliff Primary School is in the village.