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Scopwick & Kirkby Green Twinning Association

Chair
Mrs Rosa Nelson
  Tel 01526 322292
    Secretary
Mr Rosa Nelson
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Scopwick and Kirkby Green are twinned with Sceaux-sur Huisne, Sarthe France.

Scopwick is a small village, mid way between Lincoln and Sleaford in Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, with a population of about 1000. It is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as having a church & 6 mills. The name derives from Old English and was originally Scapeuic meaning the sheep farm. The main village church, Holy Cross also contains the Commonwealth War Graves for the airmen from nearby RAF Digby, including that of the young World War II poet and aviator John Gillespie Magee. Just to the west of the village lies the brick tower of Scopwick Tower Mill, which was built in 1827 and fell into disuse around 1912. It has recently been renovated into a private dwelling.

Kirkby Green is a charming small village 12miles south east of Lincoln. Mentioned in the Doomsday Book of 1086 the area has been occupied over 1,500 years. The name Kirkby, common in the former Danelaw region of England, is derived from Old Scandanavian and Old English with kirkju (church) & by (village) and here translates literally as "village with a church on the green". Just beyond the Holy Cross church, which stands on the site of a much older church which was torn down in 1848, the road crosses Scopwick Beck by way of this shallow ford.

The twinning charter was signed at Sceaux-sur-Huisne on 30 April 1994.


Scopwick in springtime


Scopwick Church

The ford at Kirkby Green