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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.

 

 

Tag: History.

May 31, 2018May 27, 2020

A Tale of Two Villages

Returning to the Bluestone Heath Road turn left and take the gradual climb out of South Ormsby with the grand hall and park with its many trees to your left. The road eventually levels briefly where a lane drops away steeply down to Campaign Farm. From the top of this lane the view reveals to […]

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May 1, 2018May 27, 2020

Calceby & the Domesday Book

  The Heritage Gateway website describes Calceby in detail – Calceby is mentioned separately in Domesday and assessed in medieval tax records. In 1377 60 people paid poll tax and by 1563 18 families remained. A priest was last instituted in St Andrew’s church in 1540-70. The Norman church now survives as a ruin to […]

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April 29, 2018May 27, 2020

The Bluestone Heath Ridgeway.

  The exit from the roundabout opposite the entrance to Gunby Hall is the A1028, which climbs steadily onto Long Rigg. This is confirmed when the road takes a sharp right after passing the entrance to a chalk quarry and then at a sharp left turn it joins up with the course of the old […]

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April 26, 2018May 27, 2020

Gunby Hall & Beyond.

The original site for Spilsby aerodrome might have been on the Gunby estate but at the time its owner was Field Marshal Sir Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd who persuaded the RAF to relocate it a little to the south. Even so the shorter north south runway ended only just short of the park a kilometre from the […]

Posted in Uncategorized. Tagged Flowers., Gunby Hall., History., Lymndale. Leave a comment
April 26, 2018May 27, 2020

Candlesby and other Sokes.

  Candlesby, in a sheltered spot on Lowgate at the foot of the Wolds overlooking the flood plain of the Lymn, was an important village in a small parish at the time of the DB. As its name implies it was probably close to the meeting place of the Candleshoe Wapentake but it was also […]

Posted in Uncategorized. Tagged Bluestone Heath Road., Churches., Danelaw., History., Wapentake.. Leave a comment
April 25, 2018May 27, 2020

Halton Holegate & East Fen.

The parish of Halton forms a rough keyhole shape just over six kilometres long. The northern half is an irregular circle bounded by the River Lymn to the east and Spilsby to the west with a narrow northerly extension to Northorpe Bridge. It covers the eastern limit of the Spilsby sandstone ridge, which here only […]

Posted in Uncategorized. Tagged Canon Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley., Churches., Coast., Fens., History.. 1 Comment
April 6, 2018May 27, 2020

What’s in a name?

Monksthorpe’s name immediately demands answers. Thorpe is a Danish word usually referring to a minor settlement but during the time of the Danelaw for two centuries before and for fifty years after the Norman conquest there were no monasteries in this part of the South Riding of Lindsey. So who were these monks? It turns […]

Posted in Uncategorized. Tagged Danelaw., Domesday Book., History., Wapentake.. Leave a comment
April 3, 2018May 27, 2020

Monksthorpe Chapel

Monksthorpe Chapel must be one of the loneliest National Trust sites, relative to other trust sites, in England, which tend to come in clusters. There are only two other sites in the whole of Lindsey and none at all just to the south in the district of Holland. It may seem that it would be […]

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