Gringley on the Hill

Gringley on the Hill, Nottinghamshire, is an English village and parish. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 699, increasing to 854 in 2021. It is on the highest part of the road from Bawtry to Gainsborough, six miles east-southeast of the former, and the same distance west by north of the latter town.

Location
From its situation on the loftiest of the promontories which overlook the wide extent of Misson Carr and Misterton Carr, it commands such extensive prospects that Lincoln Cathedral can be seen from it on a clear day across the vale of the Trent, whilst in the nearer distance the Chesterfield Canal appears emerging from the tunnel at Drakeholes, winding under the long ridge of hills which extends eastward to the River Trent.

Antiquities
The English Heritage Archive includes three sites located in the village, as well as the church. These are the site of a prehistoric hillfort at Beacon Hill, the stump of a medieval market cross, and a four-storey tower windmill dating from 1830.

Church
The St Peter & St Paul's Church is of Norman construction, with a later Perpendicular tower. Of note is an Early English pillar piscina, a free-standing bowl for washing the communion vessels.

Windmill
A brick tower windmill was built at Gringley c. 1830 by Jabez Wilkinson, replacing a post mill on the same site. The four-storey tower was derelict by 1977.

2022 temperature record
On 19 July 2022, a temperature of 40.1 C was recorded at Gringley on the Hill, which is the highest recorded temperature in Nottinghamshire and one of the highest recorded in the United Kingdom and also making Gringley on the Hill the northernmost place in the UK to exceed 40 C.

It surpassed the Nottinghamshire record set only the day before (18 July) of 36.7 C, which was recorded at Sutton Bonington. The previous Nottinghamshire record was 36.1 C, recorded at the Nottingham Weather Centre.