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Branston is a large village in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. The village is situated approximately south-east from the city and county town of Lincoln. It is the principal settlement in the civil parish of Branston and Mere.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk/BranstonandMere/ )〕 In the 2001 Census the population of the parish was recorded as 4019. ==History== The 1086 ''Domesday Book'' records a village population as 350, a figure which stayed relatively stable until the beginning of the 20th century when the population began to quickly increase to the current total. The character of the village has changed much over the second half of the 20th Century but the village has retained much of its historic centre – where the majority of buildings are constructed from local limestone.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.branstonhistorygroup.org.uk/ )〕 The village's most notable buildings are Branston Hall and Branston All Saints' Church. There is a rectory house, built in 1765. A now redundant Methodist chapel, built in 1847, is of Gothic style and previously seated 300. A Methodist chapel with seating for 110 was built to the north-east of the village at Branston Moor in 1911.〔''Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire'' 1933, p.103〕〔("Branston Chapel (Wesleyan Methodist)" ), Lincolnshire Archives. Retrieved 6 July 2014〕 A war memorial to men of the parish killed in the First World War was erected on the village green in 1920.〔 The village used to have a railway station which was in the parish of Heighington. The civil parish of Branston was merged in 1931, with that of Mere, to form the present unit. In the early 1930s parish occupations included twenty-one farmers and one smallholder, two poultry breeders, a horse dealer, a haulage contractor, two coal dealers, a motor bus proprietor, a cycle dealer, a fried fish dealer, three blacksmiths, a wheelwright, a plumber, two carpenters, a boot maker, two butchers, two grocers, three shopkeepers, two tailors, one of whom ran the post office, and landlords of the Waggon and Horses, Plough and Horses, Green Tree, and Anchor public houses.〔 In July 1977 more than fifty children from the junior school had to go to Lincoln County Hospital after a crop spraying aircraft inadvertently sprayed their playground. The insecticide was a mixture of meta-systox and aphox; organophosphate and carbamate compounds designed to clear crops of aphids. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Branston, Lincolnshire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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