Ashby by Partney is a hamlet in the East Lindsey

East Lindsey

East Lindsey is a local government district in Lincolnshire, England. The council is based in Manby near Louth, and other major settlements in the district include Alford, Spilsby, Mablethorpe, Skegness, Horncastle and Chapel St Leonards....

 district of Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...

, England. It is located to the south of the A158

A158 road

The A158 road is a major tourist route that heads from Lincoln in the west to Skegness on the east coast. The road is located entirely in the county of Lincolnshire and is single carriageway for almost its entirety. The road is approximately long...

, 2 miles (3.2 km) east of the town of Spilsby

Spilsby

Spilsby is a market town and civil parish in Lincolnshire. England. The town is situated adjacent to the main A16 Trunk Road at the southern edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds north of the Fenlands, east of the county town of Lincoln, north east of Boston and north west from Skegness.The town has...

. It neighbours the village of Partney

Partney

Partney is a small village, around 3 miles north of Spilsby in the Lincolnshire Wolds. This village was the birth place of Henry Stubbe, the noted seventeenth century thinker.-Transport links:...

, and forms part of the civil parish

Civil parish

In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation and, where they are found, the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties...

 of Ashby with Scremby

Ashby with Scremby

Ashby with Scremby is a civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, with a population of 147 . The parish includes the villages of Ashby by Partney and Scremby, along with Grebby....

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The settlement is recorded in the Domesday Book

Domesday Book

Domesday Book , now held at The National Archives, Kew, Richmond upon Thames in South West London, is the record of the great survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086...

 as consisting of 26 households, with Earl Hugh of Chester as Lord of the Manor.

The church, dedicated to Saint Helen, was built of pale orange brick in 1841, on the site of an earlier church. In 1892 C Hodgson Fowler restored the interior, retaining the 14th-century font

Baptismal font

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. It is a Grade II listed building.