Ancaster, Lincolnshire
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Ancaster | |
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Grantham | |
Postcode district | NG32 |
Dialling code | 01400 |
Police | Lincolnshire |
Fire | Lincolnshire |
Ambulance | East Midlands |
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Ancaster is a village and
The village is related to the titles of
History
Ancaster was a Roman town at the junction of the Roman roads of Ermine Street[4][5] and King Street.[6]
During the
The place name Ancaster is first attested in a 12th-century Danelaw charter from the reign of Henry II, and in a legal document of 1196, where it appears as Anecastre. The name means "the Roman fort of 'Anna'."[8]
An excavation by the television programme Time Team in 2002 revealed a cist burial bearing an inscription to the god Viridius. The dig also uncovered Iron Age to 3rd-century pottery, a 1st-century brooch, and some of the Roman town wall.[9]
Ancaster Hall at the University of Nottingham was named after the parish, as was the extinct title of the Earl of Ancaster.[citation needed]
In 2005, the once widespread but now rare tall thrift plant was discovered in Ancaster churchyard, one of only two places in the country where the plant has been found to occur. A preservation regime for the plant was instituted by English Nature.[10]
The town of
Geography
The River Trent formerly flowed east from the Nottingham area towards the North Sea via the
Ancaster lies midway between
The
Amenities
Ancaster has a Church of England primary school,[14] a butcher and grocery shop, a small railway station on the Nottingham–Skegness line, and a post office and petrol station. Of two public houses in Ermine Street,[15] only the Railway Inn remains. A sports and social club is associated with the playing field, which hosts Ancaster Cricket Club. West of the village on Willoughby Moor is a holiday park.[16] There are also two nearby nature reserves, each a Site of Special Scientific Interest, where the tall thrift plant is found.[17]
Church
The village's
The ecclesiastical parish links to Wilsford as part of the Loveden Deanery of the Diocese of Lincoln.[20]
References
- ^ "2001 census". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
- ^ "Civil parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
- ^ "Civil Parish details".
- ^ Margary, Ivan D (1973). Roman roads in Britain. pp. 224–30.
- ^ Historic England. "Ermine Street in Lincolnshire (1031813)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 4 July 2010.
- ^ Historic England. "King Street (1035135)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 4 July 2010.
- ^ Historic England. "Roman remains (325933)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 4 July 2010.
- ^ Eilert Ekwall,The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p. 9.
- ^ "Romano-British cemetery site, west of Ancaster", HeritageGateway, English Heritage. Retrieved 13 January 2013
- ^ "Anger over wild flower graveyard", BBC News, 3 August 2005
- ^ "Historical Ancaster".
- ^ M. Posnansky, "The Pleistocene Succession in the Middle Trent Basin," Proc. Geologists' Assoc., 71 (1960), pp. 285–311.
- ^ "Ancaster Parish Council"., Lincolnshire.gov.uk. Retrieved 28 June 2013.
- ^ Ancaster CE Primary School. Retrieved 28 June 2013.
- ^ Ermine Street.
- ^ holiday park.
- ^ Armeria maritima elongata. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
- ^ Historic England. "Church of St Martin (1062422)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 9 July 2011.
- ^ Historic England. "Church of St Martin (325927)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 4 July 2010.
- ^ "Ancaster/Wilsford Group P C C". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Diocese of Lincoln. Retrieved 28 June 2013
External links
- Media related to Ancaster, Lincolnshire at Wikimedia Commons
- West Willoughby in the Domesday Book
- Time Team at Ancaster
- Ancaster: historical and genealogical information at GENUKI.
- Richard Stillwell, ed. Princeton Encyclopaedia of Classical Sites, 1976: "Ancaster (Causennae), Lincolnshire, England"
- Moor Closes Nature Reserve
- Ancaster Valley Nature Reserve