Aslackby and Laughton

Aslackby and Laughton is a civil parish[1] in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England.

Aslackby Grade I listed Anglican church is dedicated to St James.

[6][7] The ecclesiastical parish is Aslackby, part of The Billingborough Group of the Lafford Deanery[8] There is a dining club, The Templars, for long-term residents, and a local history society.

[9] There is documentary evidence for a settlement called Avethorpe, from the Domesday survey onwards, but no actual location is known.

[11][12][13] Until their disbandment in 1312, the Knights Templar were major landowners on the higher lands of Lincolnshire, where they had a number of preceptories on property which provided income, while Temple Bruer was an estate on the Lincoln Heath, believed to have been used also for military training.

Parish boundary within Lincolnshire