Healing, Lincolnshire

Coordinates: 53°34′26″N 0°09′50″W / 53.573923°N 0.164021°W / 53.573923; -0.164021

Healing is a village and civil parish in North East Lincolnshire, England. It lies between Stallingborough and Great Coates, and 3 miles (4.8 km) to the west from Grimsby. Its population at the 2001 census was 2,606.

The village has a post office, fish and chip shop and hairdressers, and is served by Healing railway station, on the Barton-Cleethorpes line, and a local bus service. Access to a payphone is also available.

It has two schools, Healing Primary School and Healing Comprehensive. A new housing estate was built around 2001.

There are two local men's football teams, and a junior football team, the Healing Hotspurs.

Healing Grade II listed Anglican parish church is of 13th century origin and dedicated to St Peter and St Paul. The upper parts of the tower are in Decorated style and ashlar-faced. It was partly rebuilt in 1840, and later heavily restored in 1876 by "Fowler of Louth", who added a new roof and windows and rebuilt its south side. Within the churchyard is a listed 14th or 15th century cross base. A further listed building at Healing is a late 18th or early 19th century farm range: a building typically containing stable, granary, dovecote and store.

Healing consisted of 29 households in two manors at the time of the Domesday Book, when it was known as "Hegelinge" "Hechelinge" or "Heghelinge", which probably came from Anglo-Saxon Hægelingas - "the sons or followers of a man named Hægel". One of the manors was the one to the south of the village, and the other is the moated site.

In 1885 Kelly's noted that the area of the parish was of 1,296 acres and farmed on the four field system.