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Abbreviations

The Domesday Book – DB

National Trust – NT

Heritage Gateway – HG

Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty – AONB

White’s 1892 History, Gazetteer & Directory of Lincolnshire – White’s 1892

Above mean sea level – asl

Ordnance Survey Maps – OS

Sites of Special Scientific Interest – SSSI

Timeline

1809 Alfred Tennyson born at Somersby Rectory. Charles Darwin born in the same year.

1827 Alfred & two of his brothers go down to Cambridge.

1831 Returns from university on the death of his father aged just 52.

1833 The death of his closest friend and due to be brother-in-law Arthur Hallam.

1832-6 Darwin’s round the world voyage on HMS Beagle.

1834-5 Relationship with Rosa Baring of nearby Harrington Hall.

1837 The family leave Somersby for Epping.

1848 Lincolnshire East Coast Railway built. Fens now successfully drained using steam powered pumps.

1848 In Memoriam A.H.H. published

1850 Alfred married to Emily Sellwood by his life long friend the Rev. Drummond Rawnsley.

1850 Succeeds William Wordsworth as poet laureate.

1859 Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.

1866 Britain and North America connected by first successful telegraph cable.

1884 Becomes Alfred Lord Tennyson on receiving a baronetcy.

1890 Tennyson recites Charge of the Light Brigade onto a wax cylinder.

1892 Tennyson dies at Aldworth

Lindsey Timeline.

47 AD Roman’s arrive. Roman Era c. 400 years.

410 Roman’s leave. Kingdom of Lindsey c. 200 years.

625 Christianity returns to Lincoln.

617 – 679 Northumbria and Mercia vie for Lindsey.

780 Mercia annexes Lindsey.

Mercian Lindsey c. 200 years.

680 – 825 Mercian ascendency.

865 Great Heathen Army.

872-3 Danes winter at Torksey.

874 Danes conquer Mercia. Danish Lindsey c. 50 years.

920 Saxons conquer Lindsey.

962 King Edgar grants the Danelaw legal autonomy.

Saxon Lindsey c. 100 years.

1014 Ethelred lays waste to Lindsey.

1016 – 42 Danes back in control under Cnut and his sons.

1016 – 1066 Rise of the House of Godwin.

1069 – 70 Harrying of the North.

Norman domination 400 years.

1086 Domesday Book completed.

1142 Revesby Abbey founded. Age of the abbeys 200/400 years.

1348 Black Death arrives in England.

1539 Dissolution of the monasteries.

1848 East Lincolnshire Railway built.

Category: Ice Age

March 3, 2023

The Bluestone Heath Ridgeway and Ancient Meridian.

It is indeed fortunate that this ancient landscape of the Ulceby Chalk Plateau was not singled out as an RAF base during the Second World War as happened with similar areas north of Louth. If it had become an airfield for bombers it would have suffered the same impact as Monksthorpe with the re-aligning or […]

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