Kingerby Castle was in the small settlement of Kingerby some five miles north-west of Market Rasen

Market Rasen

Market Rasen is a town and civil parish within the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies on the River Rase northeast of Lincoln, east of Gainsborough and southwest of Grimsby. According to the 2001 census, it has a population of 3,200....

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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...

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It was a motte and bailey castle which was burnt down in 1216. The motte was then altered to form a platform for a manor house

Manor house

A manor house is a country house that historically formed the administrative centre of a manor, the lowest unit of territorial organisation in the feudal system in Europe. The term is applied to country houses that belonged to the gentry and other grand stately homes...

 which was built on the site. In 1812 the manor house was demolished and replaced by Kingerby Hall, which still stands on the site.

See also

• St Peter's Church, Kingerby
  St Peter's Church, Kingerby
  St Peter's Church, Kingerby, is a redundant Anglican church in Kingerby, Lincolnshire, England. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust...