Maidenwell
| Maidenwell | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 Maidenwell | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF321794 |
| Location: | 53°17’44"N, 0°1’6"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Louth |
| Postcode: | LN11 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | East Lindsey |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Louth and Horncastle |
Maidenwell is a village in Lindsey, the northern part of Lincolnshire. The village is six miles south of Louth. The wider parish includes the village of Ruckland, the hamlets of Oxcombe, Farforth, and Worlaby.
Churches
The village falls within the Parish of Ruckland with Farforth in The South Ormsby Group of the Deanery of Bolingbroke. The parish church is the tiny Church of St Olave at Ruckland. Further churches in the parish are All Saints' at Oxcombe and St Andrew's at Farforth.
History
A Prehistoric or Roman trackway and settlement has been identified through the village.[1][2] and several Neolithic burials, including a typical early long barrow.[3]
The village of Maidenwell, separately assessed in documents of 1334, was united with Farforth parish in 1450 or possibly 1592. Maidenwell was probably depopulated about 1400-28. Significant earthworks of the former mediæval settlement were still traceable in the 20th century.[4]
Worlaby, in the south-east of the parish, is today a farm and its farmland, but in 1872 Worlaby was described in White's Directory as former extra-parochial, and a parish of 490 acres with a population of 57, whose owner lived at Worlaby House. The estate had been purchased from the late Earl of Yarborough. A Church Mission Room, lacking parish status but supported by an external parish, was built at Worlaby in 1870, whose services were taken by the rector of Louth or his curate.[5]
Outside links
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- Maidenwell on Vision of Britain
References
- ↑ National Monuments Record: No. 1043074 – Prehistoric or Roman features
- ↑ National Monuments Record: No. 1043077 – Probable Roman settlement
- ↑ National Monuments Record: No. 1050248 – Long Barrow
- ↑ National Monuments Record: No. 354288 – Maidenwell
- ↑ White, William (1872), Whites Directory of Lincolnshire, p.349