Monument record MLI89072 - Settlement of Haconby

Summary

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

Type and Period (3)

  • (Early Medieval/Dark Age to Modern - 1000 AD to 2050 AD)
  • (Early Medieval/Dark Age to Medieval - 1001 AD to 1199 AD)
  • (Post Medieval to Edwardian - 1800 AD to 1905 AD)

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  • None recorded

Full Description

PRN 36762 [This record contains content previously found in record PRN 35646, now deleted.] The settlement of Haconby is first documented in the Domesday Book, where it is referred to as Hacunesbi or Haconesbi. It belonged to the Bishop of Lincoln, Oger the Breton, Robert of Stafford and Heppo the Arblaster and included parts of the nearby settlements of Stainfield and Morton. Ownership of the land was disputed in some cases. Haconby itself (with Stainfield) had a minimum population of 10 sokemen, 21 villeins, 7 bordars, a priest and Gulfer, Robert's man. There was also a mill and a church. {1} The name Haconby derives from the Old Danish 'by' for village or farmstead and the Old Danish personal name Hakon. {2} The Lay Subsidy of 1334 records the parish's wealth as £5 9s 8d, average for its wapentake. {3} Haconby had a regular market (on a Monday) by at least 1341, when a charter was granted to the lords of the settlement, Robert and Matilda Tissour. A fair was also held in late May/early June. {4} The Diocesan Returns of 1563 records the settlement's population as 26 households. {5} By the late late 17th-early 18th century, there were c. 60 families in the parish (including Stainfield). 14 of these were Anabaptists. Most of the houses and lands of the parish belonged to Lady Brownlow. {6} By 1801 the population was 260 people, rising to 454 in 1851 before falling to 322 by 1901. {7} During a watching brief at The Chase (TF 1060 2530) an early medieval rubbish pit was recorded (PRN 36762a). The fill of the pit yielded some animal bones and burnt limestone, thirty-six sherds of the same 11th-12th century Stamford ware spouted pitcher and two other sherds of medieval pottery.{8}{9} A watching brief at land off Main Street (TF 10477 25382) revealed two undated linear features, one of which may be natural in origin (PRN 36762b). Late medieval - early post medieval (15th-17th century) (PRN 36762c) and late post medieval (19th century) (PRN 36762d) pottery was also recovered. {10}{11} A watching brief on land to the rear of Fir Tree House (TF 1051 2534) uncovered a large pit of probable late post medieval-early modern date containing the almost complete semi-articulated remains of a cow (PRN 36762e). {12}{13}

Sources/Archives (13)

  •  Bibliographic Reference: C.W. Foster and T. Longley. 1924. Lincolnshire Domesday and Lindsey Survey. 7/31; 42/6, 14, 17, 18; 59/17; 61/1; 72/41-2, 44.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: Kenneth Cameron. 1998. A Dictionary of Lincolnshire Place-Names. p. 56.
  •  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.123.
  •  Report: Northamptonshire Archaeology. 2004. An Archaeological Trial Trench Evaluation at 5 Paddock Close, Ancaster. p. 299.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: Gerald A.J. Hodgett. 1975. Tudor Lincolnshire. p. 192.
  •  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. 57.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: William Page (ed). 1906. The Victoria County History: Lincolnshire - Volume 2. p. 360.
  •  Report: Archaeological Project Services. 2002. The Chase, Haconby. HTC01.
  •  Archive: Archaeological Project Services. 2002. The Chase, Haconby. LCNCC 2001.155.
  •  Report: Archaeological Project Services. 2006. Archaeological Watching Brief of Phase 2 Development at Main Street, Haconby. HMS05.
  •  Archive: Archaeological Project Services. 2006. Archaeological Watching Brief of Phase 2 Development at Main Street, Haconby. LCNCC 2003.231.
  •  Report: Allen Archaeological Associates. 2007. Archaeological Watching Brief: Land to the rear of Fir Tree House, Main Street, Haconby. HAFT07.
  •  Archive: Allen Archaeological Associates. 2007. Archaeological Watching Brief: Land to the rear of Fir Tree House, Main Street, Haconby. LCNCC 2007.119.

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Grid reference Centred TF 10566 25372 (627m by 386m)
Civil Parish HACONBY, SOUTH KESTEVEN, LINCOLNSHIRE

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Mar 21 2021 8:35PM

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