Monument record MLI88854 - Addlethorpe settlement

Summary

The settlement of Addlethorpe is first documented in the Domesday Book and survives to the present.

Type and Period (5)

  • (Early Medieval/Dark Age to Modern - 1000 AD to 2050 AD)
  • (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
  • (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
  • (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1450 AD? to 1900 AD?)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Full Description

PRN 46581 [This record includes content previously found in records PRN 43853, 43927 and 43928, now deleted.] Addlethorpe is first documented in the Domesday Book, where it is referred to as Herdetorp. It belonged to 7 lords, and had a minimum population of 34 villeins, 37 sokemen and Eudo, Count Alan's man. There were also 2 churches in the parish. {1} The name Addlethorpe derives from an Old English personal name and the Old Danish element 'thorp', a secondary settlement (in this case probably in relation to Ingoldmells). {2} Addlethorpe is not listed in the Lay Subsidy of 1334. {3} It is also absent from the 1377 Poll Tax returns. {4} However, it is listed in the Diocesan Returns of 1563. 44 households are recorded. {5} By the late 17th-early 18th century there were 28 families in the parish, rising to 32. {6} In 1801 the population of the parish was listed as 190, rising to 302 in 1861 before falling back to 210 by 1901. {7} Earthworks visible on aerial photographs show probable medieval ridge and furrow with field boundaries to the north-east (TF 5524 6932, PRN 46581a) and south east (TF 5518 6900, PRN 46581b) of the current village. Probable tofts are also visible to the east of the current village (TF 5535 6914, PRN 46581c). {13} A watching brief on foundation trenches and a service trench at Church Lane (TF 551 691, PRN46581d) identified a 16th/17th century ditch that probably represented a former property boundary, and a backfilled pit/depression containing 18th century and earlier pottery as well as animal bone. The ditch was aligned north-south and was 4m wide and 0.9m deep. The pit, 14m in length and 1.1m deep, was filled with dumped builders refuse and considered to be modern. {8} {9} A scatter of Toynton All Saints ware, thought to be a manuring scatter, was found during fieldwalking on the northern by-pass route (TF5502 6927, PRN 46581e). {10} During the same fieldwalking event, a scatter of late medieval pottery, post-medieval brick and tile, along with bone and cobbles, was recorded but not collected. A distinct dark soilmark was also present. This evidence was taken to indicate the site of a dwelling (TF 5495 6921, PRN 46581f). {10} Another watching brief at Church Lane (TF 555 691, PRN 46581g) uncovered medieval and post medieval ditches and pottery, suggesting continuous agricultural land use at this site. {11}{12} An earthwork survey along the route of the northern bypass surveyed two areas of ridge and furrow to the north (PRN 46581a) and north west (PRN 46581h) of the village. {14}{15}

Sources/Archives (15)

  •  Bibliographic Reference: C.W. Foster and T. Longley. 1924. Lincolnshire Domesday and Lindsey Survey. 2/19; 3/46; 12/79, 80; 29/17, 19, 23; 38/8; 68/10.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: Kenneth Cameron. 1998. A Dictionary of Lincolnshire Place-Names. p.1.
  •  Article in Serial: R.E. Glasscock. 1964. 'The Lay Subsidy of 1334 for Lincolnshire' in Lincolnshire Architectural and Archaeological Society Reports and Papers. -.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: Graham Platts. 1985. Land and People in Medieval Lincolnshire. Appendix II.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: Gerald A.J. Hodgett. 1975. Tudor Lincolnshire. p.194.
  •  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.1.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: William Page (ed). 1906. The Victoria County History: Lincolnshire - Volume 2. p.368.
  •  Report: Archaeological Project Services. March 2000. Report on a watching brief at Church Lane, Addlethorpe. CLA99.
  •  Archive: Archaeological Project Services. March 2000. Archive of a watching brief at Church Lane, Addlethorpe.. LCNCC 163.99.
  •  Report: Archaeological Project Services. Oct 1998. Proposed Northern Bypass, Addlethorpe. ANB98.
  •  Report: Archaeological Project Services. 2006. Watching Brief on land at Church Lane, Addlethorpe. CLA03.
  •  Archive: Archaeological Project Services. 2006. Watching Brief on land at Church Lane, Addlethorpe. LCNCC 163.99.
  •  Map: Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. 1992-1996. National Mapping Programme. TF5569 LI 448.1-6.
  •  Report: Archaeological Project Services. 2006. Archaeological Watching Brief and Earthwork Survey along the route of the Northern Bypass, Addlethorpe. ANBA01.
  •  Archive: Archaeological Project Services. 2006. Archaeological Watching Brief and Earthwork Survey along the route of the Northern Bypass, Addlethorpe. LCNCC 2001.76.

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Grid reference Centred TF 55074 69126 (894m by 821m)
Civil Parish ADDLETHORPE, EAST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE

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