There’s a lot to talk about here. Everywhere you look here there’s something that has a story or something of great interest. The place-name is Old English in origin, and means "island of a man called Bearda". It occurs in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, under the year 716, as "Bearddanig", and in Domesday Book as "Bardenai".

Once the site of a medieval abbey, ruined in Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries, agricultural improvement made this village prosperous in the 19th century, but its history goes back even further. Two Roman artefacts are known to have been found here, these being a gemstone and a coin.

One of its little quirks comes in the form of a saying which one would ask you if you leave a door open. The story behind it goes that when the bones of St Oswald were brought to the abbey, the monks refused to accept it. Locked outside during the night a beam of light appeared and shone from his bier reaching up into the heavens. The monks would remove the great doors to the abbey so that such a mistake could not occur again.

Here you’ll come across a Ryvita factory. It was formerly a British Sugar factory. The village also had a station which was a junction for the Branch Line to Louth via Wragby and the Lincolnshire Loop Line. Nowadays that railway is a cycle route and it’s known as the Water Rail Way. It also passes through Southrey – a village contained within these parish boundaries and one with the most gorgeous church you have ever seen.

Welcome to BARDNEY.

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Bardney Airfield:
http://www.bcar.org.uk/bardney-history

Chambers Farm Wood:
https://www.forestryengland.uk/chambe...

Bardney Lock:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

The Gateway Centre:
https://lincolnshire.fsd.org.uk/kb5/l...

The Lincolnshire Gun Shop:
https://lincolnshiregunshop.co.uk/

Jolly Sailor/Chippy:
https://www.closedpubs.co.uk/lincolns...

The Old Angel:
https://whatpub.com/pubs/LIN/275/old-...

The Black Horse:
https://www.lincolnshirelife.co.uk/he...

Smithsons and Sons:
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/557...

Churches:
http://www.churches-uk-ireland.org/to...

Heritage Centre:
http://explorelincolnshire.co.uk/bard...

Bardney Sugar Beet Factory:
https://heritage-explorer.lincolnshir...

Riverside Inn:
https://theriversideinnsouthrey.wordp...

St John the Divine:
https://www.explorechurches.org/churc...

Demographics:
http://citypopulation.de/en/uk/eastmi...

Zoopla:
https://www.zoopla.co.uk/house-prices...

Water Tower:
https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Ga...

St Lawrence:
https://www.explorechurches.org/churc...

Morell’s Canning Factory:
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/554...

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