Great Limber is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 271. It is on the A18, west from Grimsby and 8 miles east from Brigg.
In 1885 Kelly's Directory noted a Wesleyan chapel, built in 1841. The parish of , including of woodland, was farmed on four and five field systems, and produced chiefly wheat, barley and turnips. Its population in 1881 was 489.Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull 1885, pp. 516, 517
Great Limber Grade I listed Anglican church is dedicated to St Peter. It is built in Norman and Decorated styles, consisting of chancel, nave, and aisles, with attached chapels and south porch, and a low crenellated west tower with three bells. The church was partly restored in 1873.Cox, J. Charles (1916) Lincolnshire pp. 195, 196; Methuen & Co. Ltd. Its chancel is mostly Victorian, although its arch is 13th-century as is the font. An 1890 stained glass window in the north aisle is by Kempe.Pevsner, Nikolaus; Harris, John; The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire p. 257; Penguin, (1964); revised by Nicholas Antram (1989), Yale University Press.
See also List of Templar sites in Lincolnshire
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"Great Limber", Genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 5 November 2011