Glentham
| Glentham | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 Church of SS Peter and Paul, Glentham | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF000907 |
| Location: | 53°24’16"N, 0°29’48"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 508 (2011) |
| Post town: | Market Rasen |
| Postcode: | LN8 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | West Lindsey |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Gainsborough |
Glentham is a village in the West Riding of Lindsey, the northern part of Lincolnshire. It is on the A631, six miles west of Market Rasen, and two miles east of Caenby Corner and the A15. The village includes the hamlet of Caenby.
The Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names gives the derivation of the name 'Glentham' as glente ham, meaning either 'homestead frequented by birds of prey' or 'homestead at a lookout place'. Caenby is said to probably mean 'farmstead or village of a man called Cafna or Kafni'.[1]
Domesday Book
Glentham is listed in the Domesday Book. It had a total population of 64 households (very large for the time) with tax assessment of 8 geld units (again very large). Land in Glentham was held by four separate lords before the Norman conquest and three afterwards: The Bishop of Lincoln held land here before and after the Conquest; Thorgisl had been displaced by Rainfrid, with Ivo Tallboys as tenant in chief; Estan of Farningham and Wulfmer had been displaced by Wadard of Cogges, with Bishop Odo of Bayeux as tenant in chief.[2]
Churches
The parish church stands in Glentham; the Church of St Peter and St Paul. It is a Grade I listed building.[3]
Originating in the 13th century, the church has had additions and changes up to the 20th. It is mainly Perpendicular Gothic in style.[4] Pevsner dates the tower from 1756, and a stained glass window by Christopher Whall from 1915.[5] In the chancel and the north aisle are monuments and brasses to the Tourney family of Cavenby. Set within a niche over the south porch is an image of Pieta holding the dead Christ. At the west of the church is a mutilated 14th-century brass effigy of a female;[4] previously known as "Molly Grime", it was, up to 1832, washed every Good Friday by seven old maids.[6]
In 1885 Kelly's Directory recorded both a Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapel, and a nearby barrow.[7] At that time much land in the area was given over to pasture, while main crops grown were wheat, barley and beans.[8]
The ecclesiastical parish is part of the Owmby Group of parishes.[9]
Amenities
Glentham has a public house, The Crown Inn, a shop, a garden centre (with associated business units) and a village hall.
Outside links
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References
- ↑ Mills, Anthony David: 'A Dictionary of British Place-Names' (Oxford University Press, 2003) ISBN 978-0-19-852758-9
- ↑ OpenDomesday|TF0090|Glentham}}
- ↑ National Heritage List 1165045: Church of St Peter and St Paul (Grade I listing)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Cox, J. Charles (1916) Lincolnshire pp. 136, 137; Methuen & Co. Ltd
- ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, 1964; 1989 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09620-0page 248
- ↑ Gentleman's Magazine 1865; part 2, pp. 205-7
- ↑ National Heritage List 1017333: D-shaped barrow and enclosure east of New Close Plantation (Scheduled ancient monument entry)
- ↑ Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull 1885, p. 415
- ↑ "Glentham Village, Owmby Group of Parishes. Retrieved 7 August 2011