Monument record MLI50512 - Gate Burton Settlement

Summary

SETTLEMENT REMAINS, GATE BURTON HALL

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The medieval settlement remains of Gate Burton are a classic instance of settlement shift and dispersal caused by emparking in the 18th century. Documented from Domesday onwards, there is little sign in the tax and other survey returns of any marked or permanent decline in population until the 18th century. No depopulation, enclosure or engrossment was reported in 1607. In the 17th and early 18th century the lordship of Gate Burton formed part of the Knaith estate of the Lords Willoughby of Parham. It was sold, perhaps as early as 1739, to the Hutton family, formerly of Treswell in Nottinghamshire who were presumably responsible for the removal of the village from its ancient site, perhaps in about 1747. Emparking by the Huttons evidently had a marked effect, and was perhaps linked with enclosure. Glebe land in 1724 still lay in strips in the open fields but by 1788 it was in closes. The population may have been recovering by 1801, by then it was no longer housed on the earlier village site but in cottages around the park, in a small estate nucleus at the park gates and in scattered farmsteads elsewhere in the parish. The field remains are characteristically poor as is often the case at villages recovered for late emparking. The most prominent earthworks are two hollow-ways: one runs approximately north to south (to just west of the Old Rectory) and, though its very broad and smooth profile may result from continued use as a carriage road within the park, it perhaps marks the former line of the Gainsborough Road before the creation of the parkland. It is named 'Town Street' in glebe terriers. The second hollow-way continues the direct east to west line of Clay Lane downhill off the higher land to the east. Both hollow-ways, therefore, indicate fundamental alteration to the road system in the 18th century. To the north and east of the church is a series of ditched earthwork closes that clearly once continued into the ploughland to the east, where traces of their extent are visible as soilmarks on aerial photographs. The closes may mark former village remains, or possibly an early manorial curia which might have encompassed both the church and the Old Rectory. This may have been split by a diagonal chain of ponds fed by a spring east of the church, if these are not solely 18th century features. The former limit of the village to the north-east is presumably indicated by the field-name 'Town End Close' immediately east of the kitchen garden of the hall. The hall outbuildings and gardens may have occupied much of the earlier village site. {1}

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  •  Bibliographic Reference: P.L. Everson, C.C. Taylor and C.J. Dunn. 1991. Change and Continuity: Rural Settlement in North-West Lincolnshire. pp 40,97;Fig 72;ARCHIVE.
  •  Aerial Photograph: J.K.S. St Joseph. 1945-79. Cambridge University Collection. OW 78,1954, .
  •  Aerial Photograph: Paul Everson. 1975-90. RCHM. 2969/30,1979, .
  •  Aerial Photograph: COLE, C.. 1993-2002. InnerVisions Business Presentations. GATE BURTON/A-F4,B-F27A93,1993, .
  •  Aerial Photograph: COLE, C.. 1993-2002. InnerVisions Business Presentations. 137/0896/112,1996, .
  •  Map: Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. 1992-1996. National Mapping Programme. SK8382:LI.672.3.1-7,1995, .

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Grid reference Centred SK 8392 8287 (425m by 508m) Centre
Civil Parish GATE BURTON, WEST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE

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Mar 21 2021 8:35PM

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