Hatcliffe
| Hatcliffe | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 Hatcliffe village | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TA213006 |
| Location: | 53°29’20"N, 0°10’20"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 118 (2011) |
| Post town: | Grimsby |
| Postcode: | DN37 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | North East Lincolnshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Cleethorpes |
Hatcliffe is a small village in rural Lincolnshire, in the north of Lindsey, the county's northern part. The village is to be found six miles south-west of Grimsby and a mile and a half west of the A18. Less than a mile to the north is the neighbouring village of Beelsby.
Hatcliffe sits in the Lincolnshire Wolds.
History
It has been suggested that the name 'Hatcliffe' reflects a personal name and a geographic feature to mean 'Hadda's cliff (or bank)'.[1]
In the Domesday Book of 1086, Hatcliffe had 9 smallholders and 9 freemen recorded, in 18 households (which is considered a medium sized village for the age).[2] The lord of the manor in 1066 was Ralph the Staller (or 'Ralp the Constable') and, in 1086, the lord and tenant-in-chief was Alan Rufus.[2]
The manor was long held by the family who bore the Hatcliffe name, including William Hatcliffe who served Henry VI of England and Edward IV of England, as court physician in the 15th century.[3]
In the late 1500s, Thomas Hatcliffe, was a Member of Parliament for Grimsby.[4] He was rumoured to be cursed for rebuilding his new manor house in the village from the stones of a demolished church.[5] In the 1960s, American academic John Leslie Hotson, then at Yale University, published his theory that Thomas's son, William Hatcliffe, was the 'Mr W.H.' to whom William Shakespeare dedicated his sonnets in 1609;[6][7] not a view widely taken seriously.
About the village
The parish church of St Mary's dates from the 13th century,[8] and contains memorials dedicated to the Hatcliffe family dating to 1525.
The former post office in the centre of the village has been converted to a house, and stands by a small stream with stone bridge crossings.
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
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Hatcliffe in the Domesday Book
- ↑ The House of Commons, 1509-1558. Boydell & Brewer. 1982. p. 318. ISBN 978-0-436-04282-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=u_eIrJpc_T0C&pg=PA318.
- ↑ "HATCLIFFE, Thomas (c.1550-1610), of Hatcliffe, near Grimsby, Lincs.". History of Parliament. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/hatcliffe-thomas-1550-1610. Retrieved 14 December 2014.
- ↑ Nick Bunker (1 April 2011). Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World - A New History. Random House. p. 194. ISBN 978-1-84595-118-4. https://books.google.com/books?id=R72GjVgLYeUC&pg=PA194.
- ↑ "New Issue Raised on Shakespeare". The New York Times. 24 April 1964. https://www.nytimes.com/1964/04/24/new-issue-raised-on-shakespeare.html?_r=0. Retrieved 14 December 2014.
- ↑ Alan Palmer; Veronica Palmer (1 May 1999). Who's Who in Shakespeare's England: Over 700 Concise Biographies of Shakespeare's Contemporaries. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 108. ISBN 978-0-312-22086-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=6BK1Vu6pw84C&pg=PA108.
- ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner; John Harris; Nicholas Antram (January 1989). Lincolnshire. Yale University Press. pp. 370–371. ISBN 978-0-300-09620-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=tQqV7kdX1Y0C&pg=PA370.