Monument record MLI50918 - POST MEDIEVAL SETTLEMENT OF KEXBY

Summary

POST MEDIEVAL SETTLEMENT OF KEXBY

Type and Period (1)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Full Description

TWO SMALL AREAS OF SETTLEMENT REMAINS RECORDED BY THE ROYAL COMMISSION FOR THE AIR PHOTOGRAPHIC UNIT'S MAPPING PROJECT. THREE SIDES OF FOUR OR FIVE ELONGATED RECTANGULAR DITCHED ENCLOSURES, PROBABLY PROPERTY BOUNDARIES, SEEN ON EARLY RAF VERTICAL APs. {1} THOUGH IN RECEIPT OF 50% RELIEF FOLLOWING THE BLACK DEATH, HAS APPARENTLY SUFFERED FROM SUBSTANTIAL LONG TERM DECLINE. IT HAS GROWN STEADILY SINCE THE BEGINNING OF C19. THE TRUNCATED STREET PATTERN WAS PROBABLY BASED ON A NORTH-SOUTH AXIS OF A WAY NORTH TO UPTON AND SOUTH TO WILLINGHAM AND EAST-WEST STREETS SERVING THE TOWNSHIP'S FIELDS. THE NEW ENCLOSURE ROAD FROM WILLINGHAM TO UPTON BY-PASSED THE SETTLEMENT'S OLD ENCLOSURES COMPLETELY. ENCLOSURE OCCURED IN 1776-78. {3}{4}

Sources/Archives (5)

  •  Map: Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. 1992-1996. National Mapping Programme. SK8785:LI.13.1.1,1992, .
  •  Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946-71. RAF POST WAR COLLECTION. CPE:UK 1880 6287.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: P.L. Everson, C.C. Taylor and C.J. Dunn. 1991. Change and Continuity: Rural Settlement in North-West Lincolnshire. ARCHIVE NOTES.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: RUSSELL, R.C. AND RUSSELL, E.. 1983. MAKING NEW LANDSCAPES IN LINCOLNSHIRE. -.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: RUSSELL, R.C. AND RUSSELL, E.. 1987. PARLIAMENTARY ENCLOSURE AND NEW LINCOLNSHIRE LANDSCAPES. PP33,211.

Map

Location

Grid reference SK 8735 8575 (point)
Civil Parish KEXBY, WEST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE

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Record last edited

Mar 21 2021 8:35PM

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