Kingerby is a village and former 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...

 about 5 miles (8 km) north west of the town of Market Rasen

Market Rasen

Market Rasen is a town and civil parish within the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies on the River Rase northeast of Lincoln, east of Gainsborough and southwest of Grimsby. According to the 2001 census, it has a population of 3,200....

, 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. In 1936 the parish became part of Osgodby

Osgodby, Lincolnshire

Osgodby is a village and civil parish in West Lindsey in the county of Lincolnshire, England.It is near to the A1103 and A46 two miles north-west of Market Rasen. The parish contains the small villages of Kingerby, Kirkby cum Osgodby, Osgodby itself, Usselby, and the hamlet of Bishop Bridge. To the...

 parish. The hamlet

Hamlet

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 of Bishop Bridge lies about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) to the south west.
The parish church is dedicated to Saint Peter

Saint Peter

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 and is a grade I listed building cared for by the Redundant Churches Fund.
It dates from the early 11th century and is built of Ironstone

Ironstone

Ironstone is a sedimentary rock, either deposited directly as a ferruginous sediment or created by chemical repacement, that contains a substantial proportion of an iron compound from which iron either can be or once was smelted commercially. This term is customarily restricted to hard coarsely...

.
There are three monuments in the church to 13th and 14th century knights. There are also several marble tablets to the Young family
of Kingerby Hall. The church became redundant in 1981 and is now cared for by the Redundant Churches Fund. To the north and east of the church are scheduled earthworks of an ecclesiastical enclosure in which Elsham Priory

Elsham Priory

Elsham Priory was an Augustinian monastery in Lincolnshire, England. The only surviving trace is a fishpond in the grounds of Elsham Hall. Beatrice d'Amundeville founded the monastery in the 12th century it was dissolved in 1536.-References:...

 was located.

Kingerby Hall, or Manor, is a grade II listed building dating from 1812. It is located on the scheduled site of a motte and bailey castle and a later moated manor house. The castle was built sometime prior to 1216, in which year it burned down. In the 12th and 13th centuries a village grew up around the castle, but in the 17th
century the village population declined.