Hawthorpe, Lincolnshire
| Hawthorpe | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 Hawthorpe, from the south | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF048275 |
| Location: | 52°50’6"N, 0°26’43"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Bourne |
| Postcode: | PE10 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | South Kesteven |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Grantham and Stamford |
Hawthorpe is a hamlet in Kesteven, the south-western part of Lincolnshire, sitting to the west of the A15, east of the A1, and five miles north-west of the nearest town, Bourne.
Hawthorpe is in the Domesday Book of 1086 as "Awartorp", in the Beltisloe Hundred of Kesteven. It comprised 2 households, 2 villeins and 4 freemen, with 3 ploughlands, a meadow of 8 acres and woodland of 320 acres. In 1066 the Lord was Healfdene; by 1086 Lordship belonged to Alfred of Lincoln.[1][2]
In the 1872 White's Directory the two hamlets of Bulby and Hawthorpe were grouped as Bulby-cum-Hawthorpe forming the eastern side of Irnham parish, being a joint township with a population of 180 in 1,767 acres "of fertile land". An estate of about 1,000 acres in the villages was purchased by Rev. William Watson Smith in about 1840, who built on it his Elizabethan-style Bulby House and grounds. By 1872, Bulby House and 1,100 acres were owned by Gilbert Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 1st Earl of Ancaster (Lord Aveland), who was lord of the manor. A moated area evident at the time was said to be the site of Bulby Hall which is "supposed to have been burnt down in the Barons' wars".[3]
In the 1885 Kelly's Directory Hawthorpe is written as having an 1881 population of 70, and as a joint township with the hamlet of Bulby for the support of the poor. Hawthorpe belonged principally to Lord Aveland, who lived at Bulby House.[4]
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- Hawthorpe on Vision of Britain
- Information on Irnham from GENUKI
References
- ↑ Hawthorpe, Lincolnshire in the Domesday Book
- ↑ "Documents Online: "Hawthorpe, Lincolnshire", Folio: 358r, Great Domesday Book; The National Archives
- ↑ White, William (1872), Whites Directory of Lincolnshire, p.597
- ↑ Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull 1885, p. 496