Monument record MLI81756 - West Graby settlement.

Summary

West Graby medieval settlement was first mentioned in Domesday. The medieval settlements of East and West Graby now form the settlement of Graby which survives to the present day.

Type and Period (5)

  • (Early Medieval/Dark Age to Modern - 1000 AD? to 2050 AD)
  • (Early Medieval/Dark Age to Medieval - 1000 AD to 1539 AD)
  • (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • (Post Medieval - 1700 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Full Description

PRN 35386 The settlement of West Graby (East Graby is in Dowsby parish - see PRN 32920) is first mentioned in Domesday as land of Robert de Todeni, in the wapentake of Aveland. There was a manor, eleven acres of meadow, 209 acres of woodland for pannage, and at least six households.{1} By 1563, there were only five households.{2} The place-name Graby ('Greibi' in Domesday) may derive from the Old Norse 'grey', meaning 'bitch', or from the Old English 'graeg', meaning 'grey', combined with 'by', a village or farmstead.{3}{4} Aerial photographs and the National Mapping Programme overlay show earthwork ridge and furrow, tofts and crofts, boundaries and trackways of both East and West Graby.{6}{7} A possible spring line running north/south at circa TF 2985 2963 may indicate the extent of the settlement to the east.{8} A site visit to a development site centred on TF0985 2958 recorded hollows thought to result from small-scale quarrying, small mounds thought to be spoil or house platforms, and to the south of the site, ridge and furrow and a hollow way. A later geophysical survey recorded the above features and a possible earthwork bank along the lane to the north of the site.{8} Trial trenching, however, recorded only a medieval pit and ploughed out ridge and furrow.{9} An archaeological watching brief to a new residential development identified a post medieval subsoil and pit.{10}

Sources/Archives (11)

  •  Bibliographic Reference: C.W. Foster and T. Longley. 1924. Lincolnshire Domesday and Lindsey Survey. lxxiv; 18/17.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: Gerald A.J. Hodgett. 1975. Tudor Lincolnshire. Appendix I, p. 192.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: Ekwall, E.. 1960. Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names - Fourth Edition. p. 202.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: Kenneth Cameron. 1998. A Dictionary of Lincolnshire Place-Names. page 52.
  •  Index: OS CARD INDEX. DOWSBY. TF 12 NW: 23, 1965, DA.
  •  Aerial Photograph: 1945-84. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY COLLECTION. AKO20, 1065.
  •  Map: Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. 1992-1996. National Mapping Programme. TF0929: LI.818.1.1-14, 1996.
  •  Report: John Samuels Archaeological Consultants. April 1999. Land at Graby, Aslackby and Laughton.
  •  Report: John Samuels Archaeological Consultants. June 1999. Land in Graby (Part OS 3956) , Aslackby and Laughton. GRA99.
  •  Report: Archaeological Project Services. April 2003. Archaeological watching brief on land at Manor Farm, Graby. GMF03.
  •  Archive: Archaeological Project Services. April 2003. Archaeological watching brief on land at Manor Farm, Graby. LCNCC:2003.77.

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Grid reference Centred TF 0944 2933 (555m by 533m)
Civil Parish ASLACKBY AND LAUGHTON, SOUTH KESTEVEN, LINCOLNSHIRE

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Mar 21 2021 8:35PM

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