History Quarrington, Lincolnshire

1 history

1.1 early
1.2 medieval
1.3 , later modern

history
early

scattered palaeolithic , bronze age materials have been discovered in , around quarrington while nearby old sleaford known have been settled in iron age , occupied romans, there little evidence sustained pre-saxon settlement @ quarrington. between 1992 , 1995, archaeologists evaluating 34 trenches across 13 hectares of land around village uncovered 56 ditches or gullies, number of postholes, large collection of pottery sherds , extremely rare evidence of metalworking 6th–7th centuries. site has been dated 5th–9th centuries, representing , middle anglo-saxon settlement. although noted metalworking , size, archaeologists concluded displayed signs of typical rural community , reflecting how vast majority of anglo-saxon population lived. analysis of animal bones revealed sheep-farming increasingly replaced pig-rearing @ site during period. small anglo-saxon cemetery containing inhumations uncovered in parish in 2000.

medieval

ramsey abbey granted manor of quarrington jol of lincoln, monk, in c. 1051. domesday book of 1086 recorded abbey s manor consisted of 1 carucate , 6 bovates , had 2 churches. local historians christine mahany , david roffe concluded 1 of churches @ old sleaford, abbey held manor sokeland of quarrington. thegn, bardi, held manor in quarrington before conquest, had been granted bishop of lincoln 1086 , consisted of 9 carucates , 2 , half bovates plus 60 acres of meadow , 2 mills. separate village, millthorpe recorded, archaeologists fiona walker , tom lane suggest may have been alternative name quarrington. amongst bishop s tenants hugh de st vedasto or vedeto, held knight s fee in c. 1200–10. family prominent tenants in village; amicia, wife of hugh de st vedasto, died in possession of lands , tenements there in 1253, , alexander , william de st vedasto named in connection in other documents. henry selvein, knight, held quarrington of abbey , in c. 1166 granted lands haverholme priory.

quarrington s medieval name recorded in domesday book corninctune or cornunctone, old english cweorn ( mill ) , tun ( homestead ), meaning miller s homestead , reflecting importance of watermills built along river slea. bardi had owned 10 mills in sleaford , quarrington before domesday, , 11 or 12 in existence 1086 represents largest cluster of mills in lincolnshire. mahany , roffe suggest quarrington specialised part of compact estate, geared in particular milling. excavations have revealed medieval pits , pottery in village, ditches reflecting predominantly agricultural use of land. in lay subsidy of 1334, quarrington , millthorpe valued @ £4 10s. 4½d., below average wapentake.

early , later modern

the bishop of lincoln alienated lands @ quarrington crown in 1547; passed edward seymour, 1st duke of somerset , lord protector, reverted crown on attainder treason in 1549. mary granted them edward clinton, 9th baron clinton , later earl of lincoln, sold them robert carre of sleaford in 1559. carre acquired numerous manors, including old , new sleaford, during mid-16th century , passed through marriage male-line descendants earls (later marquesses) of bristol. 1563 diocesan return shows 17 families lived in village , 120 people took holy communion; 18th century, diocesan visitations edmund gibson show number of families had risen 35. local historian edward trollope recorded few changes in modern period, exception of fire burnt down rectory in 1760; rebuilt in c. 1845. 2 17th-century buildings still exist: bristol farmhouse , coursed rubble manor house, 1 widow timberland occupied in 1691.

northfield road, 2007

the town s fields enclosed in 1796 , map of village drawn @ same time, showing settlement along town road , townside road rector field , earl field north , north-east respectively. @ time, more 210 acres of land allotted rectory lord bristol in place of tithes had been entitled to. during mid , late-19th century, population of old village of quarrington declined (from 98 in 1851 72 in 1871). aside rectory , church, village included 2 large farms , cluster of labourers cottages around town road. 1872, parish spanned 1,620 acres , village contained 63 houses. same year, trollope wrote appearance of small village, lying around cared church, pleasing . sleaford expanded, houses built along london , station roads, pushing town inside quarrington parish boundaries in became new quarrington. sanitation in poorest parts of sleaford worsened during 19th century , local board of health charged improving living conditions. in 1879, lord bristol sold land on quarrington hill board, built pumping station transport clean fenland water east town.

most of land remained in possession of marquesses of bristol throughout 20th century, 1970s indebted 6th marquess , son, 7th marquess, sold of farmland around sleaford , quarrington. in 1989, bristol estates office in sleaford closed. result boom in house-building, in fields around quarrington. in 1980s, hundreds of houses constructed in southfields, , developments on quarrington hill followed in late 1990s. low house prices , crime rates, , educational facilities in sleaford made new homes attractive. local historian simon pawley wrote, quarrington ... began more suburb of sleaford village in own right . in july 2015 planning permission further 200 homes between northfield road , a15 granted north kesteven district council.

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