Laceby, Healing & Stallingborough

Laceby, Healing and Stallingborough form a cluster of villages and small parishes in North East Lincolnshire on the inland side of the Humber estuary. The area combines village centres, arable fields and pockets of light industry that sit between residential streets and farm lanes. Laceby’s parish church sits on a slight rise and retains medieval fabric, while Healing contains a compact village core with allotments and community facilities. Local shops, a primary school and village halls serve everyday needs alongside agricultural activity.

Transport and industrial links shape the eastern edge of the area, where terminals and processing sites connect to the estuary’s port network and energy infrastructure. Road connections provide direct routes to nearby employment centres and to regional motorways. Laceby’s place-name records the area’s Viking-era origins: the -by suffix denotes a farmstead, visible in local field patterns and some surviving boundary lines. The result is an area where long-settled rural land use sits alongside modern logistical and industrial activity.