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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.

 

 

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