History
Stalingeburg or Stalinburg is recorded in the Domesday Book. Its amenities are: a public house, The Green Man, a Post Office, newsagent, hairdresser, a dressmaker and a railway station. The village also has a large village hall, Church of England primary school plus a Montessori nursery and primary school, two retirement homes as well as the church of St Peter & St Paul. The church is in the Haverstoe Deanery and is in The Keelby Group, currently administered by Immingham's vicar. To the west of the church lies a scheduled monument, comprising the earthworks of a medieval settlement and a post-medieval manor house and formal gardens. Just outside the village to the south on the A1173 is a hotel and restaurant, The Stallingborough Grange. Close by is a windmill, now converted into a residential property, and a 65 MWe biomass-fired (rape seed and cereal residues) power station is scheduled for construction by RWE NPower (bought from Helius Energy in September 2008 for £28 million). Helius has an office on the nearby Europarc industrial estate. There is a farm shop at Little London.
Major Sir Ernest Sleight (Baron Sleight of Weelsby), son of Sir George Sleight, lived in the village. Jessie Boucherett owned land in the village (and North Willingham). The title Viscount Addison of Stallingborough was created in 1945 for Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison. He was a Liberal MP from 1910–8 for Hoxton and from 1918–22 for Shoreditch. He became Labour MP from 1929–31 and 1934-5 for Swindon. The current holder of the title since 1992 is William Addison, 4th Viscount Addison (born 1945). Anne Askew,(1520/1521–1546) poet, Protestant martyr and the only woman on record to have been tortured in the Tower of London before being burnt at the stake. Sir Charles Hanbury Williams's mother, Bridget Ayscough – the daughter of Sir Edward Ayscough, came from the village. Saint Erkenwald is thought to have been born in the village, or a place called Stallington. Tom Sutcliffe was High Sheriff of Lincolnshire from 1929–30, and Conservative MP from 1922–4 for Grimsby.
On 14 June 1966, an RAF Vickers Varsity trainer from RAF Lindholme collided with a Cessna 337A aircraft at about 6,500 ft close to the village, killing two people. Five people survived the accident. The Varsity, with three crew and three student navigators, landed in a field, with its nose and wing ripped off by a tree as it circumnavigated the agricultural land. The Cessna broke up in the air following the collision.
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