Leadenham

Leadenham is a village in North Kesteven, Lincolnshire, bypassed to the south in 1995 by the A17. It is on the A607 between Welbourn and Fulbeck, on the beginnings of the Lincoln Cliff.

The Village
The church is St Swithun's. The ecclesiastical parish is part of the Loveden Deanery of the Diocese of Lincoln. The incumbent is The Revd Dr Alan Megahey.

The village pub is the Willoughby Arms, and there is the George Hotel on High Street (A607). Prince Charles, as a RAF officer cadets, often called in at the pub when at nearby RAF Cranwell.

Leadenham Players
The Leadenham Players are an amateur dramatics group based in Leadenham. They have been performing pantomimes and shows for 25 years. Apart from pantomimes such as Jack and the Beanstalk, more unusual seasonal shows are performed such as 'Dracula' and 'Up Pompeii'. Over the past two years they have performed plays specially written by two of the cast members, including "The Lion, The Witch and the Red Robe" performed in 2008. The most recent was "Peter's Pan-2-Mime".

The Leadenham Pantomime is performed at the village hall every year in the last weekend of January and the first weekend of February.

History
Traces of Bronze age, Roman and Romano-British, and Early medieval occupation denote long occupation.

The name of the village probably comes from the Old English Leodan+ham for "homestead or village of a man called Leoda." It appeared in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Ledenham.

St Swithun's church is of uncertain date, built in the Decorated style.

The Royal Flying Corps built an airfield nearby on the top of the hill to the east in 1916, but it closed in 1919.