Coningsby, Lincolnshire - St Michaels Church - postcard c.1993

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  St. Michael's Church, Coningsby, Lincolnshire
• Publisher:  The Postcard Co. Ltd., ('Great Lincolnshire Postcards') / photo CFE Smedley, 1993
• Postally used:  yes
• Stamp:  1st class gold
• Postmark(s):  [place uncertain], 2011
• Sent to:  Yelverton, Devon
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Coningsby /'k?n??zb?/ is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.

Taking its name from the Old Norse 'konungr' meaning 'King' with an Old Norse suffix 'by' meaning 'the settlement of' which gives Coningsby the meaning 'The Settlement of the King'. Coningsby lies approximately 7 miles (11 km) south from Horncastle, and on the A153 Horncastle to Sleaford road, with the Lincolnshire Wolds to the west and the Fens to the east. The B1192 Kirton to Woodhall Spa road passes through the town. At its western end it meets the village of Tattershall, demarcated by the River Bain. A railway line, which once passed through the village, opened on 1 July 1913 and closed on 5 July 1970. The Coldham Road Industrial Estate now occupies the site of the former Coningsby railway station. The Line was officially known as the Kirkstead and Little Steeping Railway though it was universally known by the local people and the railway workers as 'The New Line'.^{[citation needed]}

Coningsby St Michael's C of E Primary School is on School Lane. The secondary modern school, the Gartree Community School, is just outside the Coningsby boundary in Tattershall, near the A153. Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Horncastle provides sixth form education with enrollment open to pupils graduating from both Gartree and other Secondary Modern Schools. Pupils may also choose to attend school in nearby Tattershall and other towns.^{[citation needed]}

The nearest further education college is in Boston. In late March 2008, renovation on the Tattershall/Coningsby Library included a small learning centre provided by Boston College.^{[citation needed]}

Coningsby is overseen by the tower of its 15th-century parish church, St Michael's, with its one-handed clock face. One of the few in the country (there is another at St Andrew's in Holt, Norfolk), it is stated by Coningsby Parish Council to be the largest of its kind in the world.^{[citation needed]} The face is painted directly onto the wall of the tower and was probably installed in the 17th century. It is 16.5 feet in diameter and its hand is nearly 9 feet long. The driving weights are large stones and its pendulum swings once every two seconds. The pendulum is not attached to the clock but some distance away, linked by a connecting rod. There are three wheels in the timekeeping mechanism which needs winding once a day. The tower on which the clock face is painted is on the outside of the building. There is an arched passage under the tower which is part of a public footpath from the A153 High Street to the School on School lane, through the churchyard.^{[citation needed]}

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period=post-war (1945-present)

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