Ancaster
Ancaster is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, on the site of a Roman town. The population of the civil parish was 1,317 at the 2001 census, increasing to 1,647 at the 2011 census.Photo: Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 1,290 residents
- Description: village of Lincolnshire, in England
- Also known as: “Ancaster, Lincolnshire”, “Ancaster, Lincolnshire, England”, “Ancaster, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom”, and “Cavsennae”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ancaster railway station and RAF Barkston Heath.
Ancaster railway station
Railway station
Photo: Shaun Ferguson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ancaster railway station serves the village of Ancaster, in Lincolnshire, England. The station lies 11.5 miles north of Grantham on the Nottingham to Skegness Line.
RAF Barkston Heath
Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Royal Air Force Barkston Heath or RAF Barkston Heath is a Royal Air Force Relief Landing Ground under the command of RAF Cranwell near Grantham, Lincolnshire, England. RAF Barkston Heath is situated 2 miles southwest of Ancaster.
Church of St Mary
Church
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Church of St Mary is situated 1½ miles southeast of Ancaster.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hough-on-the-Hill and Quarrington.
Hough-on-the-Hill
Hamlet
Photo: Acabashi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hough-on-the-Hill is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish including Brandon was 399 at the 2011 census. Hough-on-the-Hill is situated 4 miles west of Ancaster.
Quarrington
Village
Photo: Dave Hitchborne, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Quarrington is a village in the civil parish of Sleaford, in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. The old village and its church lie approximately 1 miles south-west from the centre of Sleaford. Quarrington is situated 4½ miles east of Ancaster.
Gelston
Hamlet
Photo: Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gelston is a village in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is 2 miles west from the A607 road, 5 miles north from Grantham, and in the civil parish of Hough-on-the-Hill, a village 1 mile to the north-east. Gelston is situated 4½ miles west of Ancaster.
Ancaster
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Ancaster, South Kesteven District, Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.98574° or 52° 59′ 9″ northLongitude
-0.53453° or 0° 32′ 4″ westPopulation
1,290Elevation
151 feet (46 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB AN2Open location code
9C4XXFP8+75OpenStreetMap ID
node 68329606OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Ancaster” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Ancaster (Lincolnshire)”
- Basque: “Ancaster”
- Cebuano: “Ancaster (parokya)”
- Cebuano: “Ancaster”
- Cornish: “Karanna”
- Dutch: “Ancaster”
- French: “Ancaster”
- Irish: “Ancaster”
- Ladin: “Ancaster”
- Polish: “Ancaster”
- Spanish: “Ancaster”
- Swedish: “Ancaster (parish)”
- Swedish: “Ancaster, England”
- Urdu: “اینکاسٹر، لنکن شائر”
- Welsh: “Ancaster, Swydd Lincoln”
- Welsh: “Ancaster”
- “Ancaster”
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