Lincolnshire
South Kesteven District
Ancaster

Ancaster

Ancaster is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of , 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.
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Photo: Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0.
  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: village of Lincolnshire, in England
  • Also known as: “Ancaster village cross”, “Ancaster, Lincolnshire”, “Ancaster, Lincolnshire, England”, and “Ancaster, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Ancaster railway station and RAF Barkston Heath.

Railway station
Photo: Shaun Ferguson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
serves the village of Ancaster, in , . The station lies 11.5 miles north of on the Nottingham to Skegness Line. is situated 1,800 feet north of Ancaster.

Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Royal Air Force Barkston Heath or is a Royal Air Force Relief Landing Ground under the command of near , , England. is situated 1½ miles southwest of Ancaster.

Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is situated 1½ miles east of Ancaster.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hough-on-the-Hill and Quarrington.

Hamlet
Photo: Acabashi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of , England. The population of the civil parish including was 399 at the 2011 census. is situated 4 miles northwest of Ancaster.

Village
Photo: Dave Hitchborne, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in the civil parish of , in the district of , England. The old village and its church lie approximately 1 miles south-west from the centre of Sleaford. is situated 4½ miles east of Ancaster.

Hamlet
Photo: Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in the South Kesteven district of , England. It is 2 miles west from the A607 road, 5 miles north from , and in the civil parish of , a village 1 mile to the north-east. is situated 4½ miles west of Ancaster.

Ancaster

Latitude
52.9829° or 52° 58′ 59″ north
Longitude
-0.53572° or 0° 32′ 9″ west
Population
1,290
Elevation
151 feet (46 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB AN2
Open location code
9C4XXFM7+5P
Open­Street­Map ID
way 371313718
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Geo­Names ID
2657332
Wiki­data ID
Q2636096
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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”
  • Welsh: “Ancaster, Swydd Lincoln”
  • Welsh: “Ancaster”
  • “Ancaster”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Ancaster”. Photo: Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0.