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Heapham is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, and Шаблон:Convert south-east from Gainsborough.

According to A Dictionary of British Place Names, Heapham derives from the Old English for "homestead or enclosure where rose-hips or brambles grow", being hēope or hēopa with hām or hamm.[1]

Heapham is recorded in the 1872 White's Directory as a scattered village and parish with a population of 141, and of Шаблон:Convert of land in the Soke of Kirton. All Saints Church had been restored in 1869–70 at a cost of £400. The incumbency was a rectory valued at £361 and included a residence, under the patronage of Lieutenant-colonel Weston Cracroft Amcotts M.P. The Heapham entry included the small Wesleyan chapel, built 1842. Professions and trades listed in 1872 included the parish rector, a corn miller, a farm bailiff, and thirteen farmers, one of whom was a parish overseer, and another a carter and carrier; the carrier [transporting goods and occasionally people] operated between the village and Gainsborough.[2]

Heapham Anglican Grade II listed parish church is dedicated to All Saints. The church tower is of Saxon origin; the main body, Norman. The church was restored in 1868.[3][4] The churchyard contains the war grave of a Sherwood Foresters soldier of the First World War.[5]

Two chapels were built by Wesleyan Methodists, one in 1842 the other, Grade II listed, in 1897.[6] Other listed buildings[7] include Heapham Windmill, described as "The most complete windmill in West Lindsey".[8][9]

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  1. Mills, Anthony David (2003); A Dictionary of British Place Names, Oxford University Press, revised edition (2011), p.232. Шаблон:ISBN
  2. White, William (1872), Whites Directory of Lincolnshire, p.317
  3. Cox, J. Charles (1916) Lincolnshire pp. 162-163; Methuen & Co. Ltd
  4. Kelly’s Directory of Lincolnshire with the Port of Hull, 1885, p. 472
  5. CWGC Casualty Record.
  6. Heapham, genuki.org.uk; retrieved 22 June 2011
  7. "Listed Buildings in Heapham", British Listed Buildings; retrieved 22 June 2011
  8. Heapham Windmill, British Listed Buildings; retrieved 22 June 2011
  9. Heapham windmill, windmillworld.com; retrieved 22 June 2011