Aswarby

Aswarby (pronounced 'as-r-bee') is a village in Lincolnshire, United Kingdom ([map sources]).

Aswarby lies beside the A15 road between Sleaford and the point where it crosses the A52 road, near Threekingham.

The English writer M.R. James (1862–1936), an antiquarian and academic widely regarded as one of the greatest practitioners of supernatural short fiction; his specialty was antiquarian ghost stories, one of which was set in Aswarby Hall. Most people who have read these stories do not realise that the Hall actually exists.

External links

Grid reference
[Map] and [aerial photo] of from Multimap.com
Other
[Aswarby St Denis Church]
[M.R.James website]

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