Brattleby
| Brattleby | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 St Cuthbert's Church, Brattleby | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SK948808 |
| Location: | 53°18’57"N, -0°34’40"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 111 (2011) |
| Post town: | Lincoln |
| Postcode: | LN1 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | West Lindsey |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Gainsborough |
Brattleby is a village in the Lindsey, the northern part of Lincolnshire. It is five miles north of Lincoln, standing to the west of the A15 near RAF Scampton.
The population of the parish at the 2011 census was 111
In 1981 the village was designated a conservation area.
The name of the village appears to be from the Old Norse for 'Brot-Ulfr's farmstead (or a village)", after an otherwise unknown Danish or Norse landowner.[1]
Parish church
The parish church is dedicated to St. Cuthbert.[2] It was established in the late 11th century with later additions in the 14th,[2] and was heavily restored in 1858 by James Fowler.[3]
Pevsner notes a late Anglo-Saxon cross shaft at the south of the churchyard.[4] Kellys described the church of St Cuthbert as:
a stone edifice in the Early English style rebuilt with the exception of the lower stage of the tower, and the arcade, in 1858, under the direction of Mr. James Fowler, of Louth: it consists of chancel, nave, north aisle and a western tower, surmounted by a small spire, containing 3 bells: there is a reredos of alabaster to the memory of the two elder sons of S. W. Wright esq. of Brattleby Hall, also in the chancel an ancient credence table. The east stained window is in memory of Miss Mary Wright and another in the south side of chancel, to Henrietta de Coetlogon. The register dates from the year 1686.[5]
The churchyard contains one Commonwealth War Graves Commission grave, that of Flying Officer Clare Connor, RAF, the Canadian pilot of the aircraft on the mission for which John Hannah received the Victoria Cross. Connor was presented with the DFC by King George VI at Buckingham Palace when Hannah received the VC. Connor was based at nearby RAF Scampton, and he and his wife attended services at St. Cuthbert's. He was killed on a subsequent mission, and his body recovered from the North Sea.[6]
History
In the 1086 Domesday Book, Brattleby is mentioned three times as "Brotulbi", in the Lawress Wapentake in the West Riding of Lindsey. The manor held 19.5 households, 2 smallholders 5 freemen, 3 ploughlands and a meadow of 8 acres. It reports that before the Conquest the owner of the manor was Ulf Fenman, but by 1086 it was held by Gilbert of Ghent, who also became Tenant-in-chief.[7]
Brattleby became a Barony after the Norman conquest. In 1169 the Barony of Brattleby was inherited by Nicola de la Haye, who became Sheriff of Lincolnshire, and, in 1216 after the death of her husband Gerard de Camville, castellan of Lincoln Castle, where she was involved in the 1217 Battle of Lincoln and the defence against various sieges during the First Barons' War.[8][9]
Brattleby Hall, established about 1780, with 1838-39 alterations by William Nicholson,[10] was owned by the De La Haye family during the reign of Henry I. Pevsner describes the hall as early Victorian and notes stables dated 1813;[4] the stable block is Grade II listed.[11]
In 1885 Kelly's Directory recorded that the rectory was in the gift of Samuel W. Wright DL, JP, of Brattleby Hall, a "modern mansion", who was also principal landowner and lord of the manor. The chief crops within a parish area of 1,238 acres were wheat, barley, turnips and clover. Parish population in 1881 was 148. There was a mixed parochial school for 40 pupils, built in 1871 and supported by Samuel Wright. Kelly's also noted three farmers, a wool merchant, farm bailiff, shopkeeper, blacksmith and a wheelwright.[5]
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References
- ↑ Mills, Anthony David: 'A Dictionary of British Place-Names' (Oxford University Press, 2003) ISBN 978-0-19-852758-9
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 National Heritage List 1063378: Church of St Cuthbert
- ↑ Cox, J. Charles (1916) Lincolnshire p. 349; Methuen & Co. Ltd
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, 1964; 1989 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09620-0page 2197
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull 1885, p. 335
- ↑ Peggy Curran, "The unknown Canadian: Hudson widow alerts British village to heroic pilot's grave," Montreal Gazette 11 November 2010; see also "War widow travels 3,000 miles to visit the county grave of her airman husband," Lincolnshire Echo http://parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Files/Parish/51/ConnorLincsecho.pdf
- ↑ Brattleby in the Domesday Book
- ↑ "Making History - Nicholaa de la Haye"; series 12, programme 5, BBC Radio 4, 15 November 2005. Retrieved 9 July 2012
- ↑ Wilkinson, Linda (2007) Women in Thirteenth-Century Lincolnshire, pp. 13-26 (Royal Historical Society; Boydell Press) ISBN 0861932854
- ↑ National Heritage List 1063335: Brattleby Hall
- ↑ National Heritage List 1063336: Stable Block at Brattleby Hall, Brattleby