St
Peters Church was restored / modified by Butterfield. Inside there is a monument to William Richardson (1850).
Above
the village of Great Limber, stands The Brocklesby
Mausoleum. The Architect was James Wyatt. The
mausoleum was built to commemorate Sophia Aufrere
who died as a young woman in 1786 and it was completed
in 1792.
The Pelhams - The Earls of Yarborough. The emblem of the family is a medieval belt buckle, and it can be seen virtually everywhere around Great Limber
Awarded to Sir John Pelham by the Black Prince (Edward), at the battle of Poitiers in 1356.
St
Peter
Playing
Field
Cabinet
Maker and Joiner
Village
Hall
1841
Wesleyan Chapel
Little
Brocklesby Care Home
Post
Office & General Store
Public
House
Great Limber was known as Lymburghe Magna in the Domesday book, a literal translation is "lime tree on the hill', and is named as such due to the burial site on mausoleum hill. In the middle ages, a small abbey was established around a knights templar and the village has its own market.
