Lenton is a small hamlet

Hamlet (place)

A hamlet is usually a rural settlement which is too small to be considered a village, though sometimes the word is used for a different sort of community. Historically, when a hamlet became large enough to justify building a church, it was then classified as a village...

 in the district of South Kesteven

South Kesteven

South Kesteven is a local government district in Lincolnshire, England, forming part of the traditional Kesteven division of the county. It covers Grantham, Stamford, Bourne and Market Deeping.-History:...

, in 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 situated roughly 9.5 miles south east of Grantham

Grantham

Grantham is a market town within the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It bestrides the East Coast Main Line railway , the historic A1 main north-south road, and the River Witham. Grantham is located approximately south of the city of Lincoln, and approximately east of Nottingham...

, and is part of the Lenton, Keisby and Osgodby parish.

Village

The village is sometimes known as Lavington, and the name may have come from the Old English Lâfa, and the characteristic suffix -ton. The village was mentioned 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 Lavintone.

The Parish church of St Peter is in the heart of the village. The village erected a splendid new Lychgate

Lychgate

A lychgate, also spelled lichgate, lycugate, or as two separate words lych gate, is a gateway covered with a roof found at the entrance to a traditional English or English-style churchyard.-Name:...

 to mark the Millennium, which was also celebrated by an artistic exhibition in the church on the subject of Angels. The Angels exhibition has recently returned to the church, open to the public from Easter 2011. Lenton parish is part of the North Beltisloe Group of parishes in the Deanery

Deanery

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 of Beltisloe

Beltisloe

Beltisloe is a Deanery of the Diocese of Lincoln England, and a former Wapentake.The Wapentake of Beltisloe, was an old administrative division of the English county of Lincolnshire. In England a wapentake was the division of a shire for administrative, military and judicial purposes under the...

. The Incumbent was until recently The Revd Richard Ireson, but there is a Vacancy at present.

There are many other hamlets around the area such as Hanby

Hanby, Lincolnshire

Hanby is a hamlet in South Kesteven, Lincolnshire, England. It is located between Lenton and Ropsley Heath, on the line of the Roman Road King Street. The nearest large town is Grantham to the Northwest. Hanby is part of the civil parish of Lenton, Keisby and Osgodby.-Lost settlement:The hamlet...

, Keisby

Keisby

Keisby is a small hamlet in the district of South Kesteven, in Lincolnshire, England. It is situated roughly 7 or 8 miles north-west of Bourne, and is part of the Lenton, Keisby and Osgodby parish. Lenton parish is part of The North Beltisloe Group of parishes in the Deanery of Beltisloe. The...

 Osgodby and Pickworth. Larger villages close by include Ropsley

Ropsley

Ropsley is a village about east of Grantham, Lincolnshire, England.-Village:Ropsley has its own village hall which also within the ground has a basketball court, a football pitch and a cricket pitch. There is a golf course located on the outskirts of the village, it has 12 holes after undergoing...

, Folkingham

Folkingham

Folkingham is a village and civil parish at the northern edge of the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies on the A15 road of north of Bourne. The civil parish and ecclesiastical parish have the same boundaries. The 2001 census recorded a population of 729.-Village:The village...

 and Ingoldsby

Ingoldsby

Ingoldsby is a small village of approximately 121 households, located seven miles south east of Grantham, in South Kesteven, Lincolnshire.-Parish:...

.

The Lavington name is preserved in Lavington Lakes a fishing facility provided by a local farmer.http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/329791

Lost Villages

The village is associated with the site of the lost medieval settlement

Abandoned village

An abandoned village is a village that has, for some reason, been deserted. In many countries, and throughout history, thousands of villages were deserted for a variety of causes...

 of Little Lavington.

South of the village is the site of the lost settlement

Abandoned village

An abandoned village is a village that has, for some reason, been deserted. In many countries, and throughout history, thousands of villages were deserted for a variety of causes...

 of Osgodby. whose name survives in the name of the parish.

See also

• The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green
  The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green
  The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green is a novel by Cuthbert M. Bede, a pseudonym of Edward Bradley . It covers the exploits of Mr Verdant Green as an undergraduate freshman at Oxford University. Different editions have varying titles, including Mr Verdant Green: Adventures of an Oxford Freshman...
  
   Written and illustrated by Edward Bradley
  Edward Bradley (writer)
  Edward Bradley was an English novelist and clergyman. He was born in Kidderminster and educated at Durham University . He wrote under the name of Cuthbert M. Bede, B.A. a few novels and tales, Fairy Fables , Glencraggan , Fotheringhay , etc...
  
  , Vicar of Lenton in the 1870s

• Other places called Lenton