Welcome to the website of the Burton Pedwardine Parish Meeting.

Burton Pedwardine is a village and civil parish in the district of North Kesteven, Lincolnshire, England. The population at the 2021 census was 192. The village is situated approximately 4 miles (6 km) south-east from the market town of Sleaford and 2 miles (3 km) south-west of the village of Heckington.

Burton Pedwardine is named after a Herefordshire family, the Pedwardines, who acquired the hall and manor in the late 13C.

What is a Parish Meeting? A civil parish is both a geographic area and the smallest unit of local government. A Parish Meeting is a meeting that all the electors in an English civil parish are entitled to attend. Where a parish has fewer than 200 electors (Burton Pedwardine only has 85), a Parish Meeting takes on the role of a Parish Council and has similar statutory powers. Parish Meetings are a form of direct democracy where all registered electors in the parish can attend, speak, and vote, rather than the representative democracy of a Parish Council which has elected councillors. In a Parish Meeting, any elector can ask for items to be included or even add them during the meeting. The Meeting elects a chairman and a clerk to act on the meeting's behalf. Our meetings are held in the Church only because there is not another suitably sized venue.