Community
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St James' church
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The former School
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The Castle Inn
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The Fox and Hounds
Castle Bytham's community supports several events each year in the Village Hall. The annual Midsummer Fair has raised over £40,000 for local causes including a Christmas lunch for pensioners and a children's party, and village infrastructure improvements. Efforts are currently being made to improve the village recreation ground for the benefit of local young people and a 2010 Parish Plan suggested wider improvements.
The former RAF Coningsby station commander (1974-60) and Commandant of the Central Flying School (1979–83) lives in the village, and a former resident on Glen Road was Harold Wilson's press secretary, Sir Trevor Lloyd-Hughes.
There is a village shop on Pinfold Road. Castle Bytham Post Office was closed in 2008 despite local opposition. It had served Creeton, Swinstead, Swayfield, Little Bytham and Clipsham, and other nearby small villages – it has now been replaced by a mobile 'outreach' service.
There are two remaining pubs in the village: the Fox & Hounds and the Castle Inn. Others, such as the New Inn on Station Road, were converted to housing in the 1960s.
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