Kinoulton

infobox UK place
country = England
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latitude= 52.87
longitude=-0.99
official_name = Kinoulton
population =1037
shire_district=Rushcliffe
shire_county= Nottinghamshire
region= East Midlands
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post_town= NOTTINGHAM
postcode_district = NG12
postcode_area=NG
dial_code=
os_grid_reference= SK682310

Kinoulton is a village in Nottinghamshire, England. It is located 10 miles south east of the city of Nottingham. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 1,037 [ [http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=3&b=798505&c=NG12+3EG&d=16&e=15&g=479738&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1207468365220&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779 "Area: Kinoulton CP (Parish)"] ] . The original settlement was close to the Roman Fosse Way, now the A46 trunk road, just north of its junction with the present day A606 Nottingham to Melton Mowbray road. It was close to the site of a civil war battle. Around the time when the Grantham Canal was opened in 1797, connecting the town of Grantham in Lincolnshire with the River Trent at Nottingham, the centre of the village migrated eastwards, downhill into the Vale of Belvoir. A new parish church of St Luke was built for the Earl of Gainsborough in 1792-93, close to the canal, and is a relatively rare example of a village parish church from this period. It is built in red brick. The site of the village's pinfold is also adjacent to the church, now only remembered in street names.

A moat 1 mile south of the village may have been the site of a grange of Launde Abbey in Leicestershire or Swineshead in Lincolnshire [Pevsner, Nikolaus. 1979. "The Buildings of England:Nottinghamshire". page 156. Harmondsworth, Middx. Penguin.] .

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