Monument record MLI88720 - Welton le Marsh settlement

Summary

The settlement of Welton le Marsh is first documented in the Domesday Book and survives to the present.

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Full Description

PRN 46511 [This record includes information formerly in records 44028 and 44542.] Welton le Marsh is first documented in the Domesday Book where it has three entries. It was known at that time as 'Waletone', and in each entry is combined with Boothby ('Bodebi'). It had, with Boothby, a minimum population of 21 sokemen, 2 villeins, 5 bordars and 'Raynar, Gocelin's man'. It also had a mill. {1} The name Welton is derived from Old English meaning 'farmstead/village with a spring'. The affix 'le Marsh' does not appear in records until the 19th century. {2} The Lay Subsidy of 1334 lists the parish's wealth as £2 17s 6d, one of the poorer parishes in its wapentake.{3} The Poll Tax returns of 1377 records that 121(?) people were paying tax. {4} There were 34 households recorded in the Diocesan Returns of 1563. {5} By the late 17th-early 18th century there were 39 families, rising to 42. {6} In 1801 the population of the parish of Welton le Marsh was listed at 184, peaking at 468 in 1861 before falling back to 265 by 1901. {7} Earthworks and cropmarks are visible on aerial photographs. These form four main groups - cropmarks and earthworks possibly representing late medieval crofts around the north-west of the village (TF 4706 6898, PRN 46511a); cropmarks and earthworks possibly representing late medieval enclosures, boundaries and field systems to the south-east of the village (TF 4748 6851, PRN 46511b); cropmarks and earthworks possibly representing late medieval tofts to the south of the village (TF 4714 6867, PRN 46511c); and cropmarks and earthworks possibly representing late medieval enclosures to the far south west of the village (TF 4764 6864, PRN 46511d). All of these represent the possible former extent of the shrunken village. {8} During a watching brief on Rea Lane, a ditch was recorded, thought to be a property boundary dating to the 13th-15th centuries (TF 4727 6864, PRN 46511e). Medieval pottery sherds and brick were also recovered. {9}{10} During a watching brief at Beck Cottage two sherds of Toynton All Saints 13th-15th century pottery were recovered (TF 4760 6875, PRN 46511f). {11}{12} A cluster of cropmarks are located on the eastern side of Welton le Marsh at TF477687. The features may date from the prehistoric or Roman periods. {13} Interpretation of aerial photographs was undertaken in December 2011 in order to determine the best possible location for a wind farm substation. Aerial photograph site 6 was recorded as medieval fields and boundaries south of Welton le Marsh [TF 4750 6848]. Eroded and buried areas of ridge and furrow and former ditch boundaries were visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. Aerial photograph site 7 was recorded as possible enclosures south of Welton le Marsh [TF 4849 6875]. Cropmarks show the possible enclosures and a double ditched zig-zag feature which may be associated with Second World War defences. {14}

Sources/Archives (14)

  •  Bibliographic Reference: C.W. Foster and T. Longley. 1924. Lincolnshire Domesday and Lindsey Survey. 14/100, 24/60, 28/43.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: Kenneth Cameron. 1998. A Dictionary of Lincolnshire Place-Names. p.136.
  •  Article in Serial: R.E. Glasscock. 1964. 'The Lay Subsidy of 1334 for Lincolnshire' in Lincolnshire Architectural and Archaeological Society Reports and Papers. vol.10.2, p.128.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: Graham Platts. 1985. Land and People in Medieval Lincolnshire. p.308.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: Gerald A.J. Hodgett. 1975. Tudor Lincolnshire. p.195.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: R.E.G. Cole. 1913. Speculum Dioeceseos Lincolniensis sub Episcopis Gul: Wake et Edm: Gibson A.D.1705-1723. Part 1: Archdeaconries of Lincoln and Stow. p.138.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: William Page (ed). 1906. The Victoria County History: Lincolnshire - Volume 2. p.368.
  •  Map: Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. 1992-1996. National Mapping Programme. TF4768: LI.395.5.
  •  Report: Archaeological Project Services. July 2000. Rea Lane, Welton le Marsh. WRL00.
  •  Archive: Archaeological Project Services. July 2000. Rea Lane, Welton le Marsh. LCNCC 2000.146.
  •  Archive: Archaeological Project Services. 2003. Beck Cottage, Welton Le Marsh. LCNCC:2000.218.
  •  Report: Archaeological Project Services. 2003. Beck Cottage, Welton Le Marsh. WBC02.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: Stephen Ellis, Helen Fenwick, Malcolm Lillie and Robert Van de Noort. 2001. Wetland Heritage of the Lincolnshire Marsh. p.175.
  •  Report: Air Photo Services. 2010. Interpretation of Aerial Photographs for Triton Knoll Offshore Wind Farm Substation Options. -.

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Grid reference Centred TF 47319 68698 (980m by 714m)
Civil Parish WELTON LE MARSH, EAST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE

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