Brattleby

Coordinates: 53°18′57″N 0°34′40″W / 53.315920°N 0.577695°W / 53.315920; -0.577695
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Brattleby
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townLincoln
Postcode districtLN1
PoliceLincolnshire
FireLincolnshire
AmbulanceEast Midlands
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UK
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Lincolnshire
53°18′57″N 0°34′40″W / 53.315920°N 0.577695°W / 53.315920; -0.577695

Brattleby is a village and

A15, and near to RAF Scampton
.

In 1981 the village was designated a

conservation area.[2]

History

According to A Dictionary of British Place Names, Brattleby is defined as "a farmstead or a village of a man called Brot-Ulfr", an Old Scandinavian person name, with 'by', a "farmstead, village or settlement".[3]

In the 1086

Lord of the Manor, this transferred in 1086 to Gilbert of Ghent, who also became Tenant-in-chief.[5]

Brattleby became a

Gerard de Camville, castellan of Lincoln Castle, where she was involved in the 1217 Battle of Lincoln and the defence against various sieges during the First Barons' War.[6][7]

Brattleby Hall, established about 1780, with 1838-39 alterations by William Nicholson,[8] was owned by the De La Haye family during the reign of Henry I.[citation needed] Pevsner describes the hall as early Victorian and notes stables dated 1813;[9] the stable block is Grade II listed.[10]

In 1885

JP, of Brattleby Hall, a "modern mansion", who was also principal landowner and lord of the manor. The chief crops within a parish area of 1,238 acres (5 km2) were wheat, barley, turnips and clover. The parish population in 1881 was 148. There was a mixed parochial school for 40 pupils, built in 1871 and supported by Samuel Wright. Kelly's also noted three farmers, a wool merchant, farm bailiff, shopkeeper, blacksmith and a wheelwright.[12]

Brattleby

St. Cuthbert.[13] It was established in the late 11th century with later additions in the 14th,[13] and was heavily restored in 1858 by James Fowler.[14] Pevsner notes a late Anglo-Saxon shaft of a cross at the south of the churchyard.[9] Kellys described the church of St Cuthbert as:

a stone edifice in the Early English style rebuilt with the exception of the lower stage of the tower, and the arcade, in 1858, under the direction of Mr. James Fowler, of Louth: it consists of chancel, nave, north aisle and a western tower, surmounted by a small spire, containing 3 bells: there is a reredos of alabaster to the memory of the two elder sons of S W Wright esq of Brattleby Hall, also in the chancel an ancient credence table. The east stained window is in memory of Miss Mary Wright and another in the south side of the chancel, to Henrietta de Coetlogon. The register dates from the year 1686.[12]

The churchyard contains one

King George VI at Buckingham Palace when Hannah received the VC. Connor was based at nearby RAF Scampton, and he and his wife attended services at St. Cuthbert's. He was killed on a subsequent mission, and his body recovered from the North Sea.[15]

Notable people

References

  1. ^ "Civil parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
  2. ^ Clay, Alan (September 1981). "Brattleby Conservation Area Appraisal" (PDF). West Lindsey District Council. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
  3. ISBN 019960908X
  4. ^ "Documents Online: Brattleby, Lincolnshire", Great Domesday Book, Folios: 340v, 354v, 356v; The National Archives. Retrieved 9 July 2012
  5. ^ Brattleby in the Domesday Book. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
  6. ^ "Making History - Nicholaa de la Haye"; series 12, programme 5, BBC Radio 4, 15 November 2005. Retrieved 9 July 2012
  7. ISBN 0861932854
  8. ^ Historic England. "Brattleby Hall (1063335)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 1 July 2011.
  9. ^
    ISBN 0300096208
  10. ^ Historic England. "Stable Block at Brattleby Hall, Brattleby (1063336)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
  11. ^ "Norfolk-L Archives"; Ancestry.com. Retrieved 9 July 2012
  12. ^ a b Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull 1885, p. 335
  13. ^ a b Historic England. "Church of St Cuthbert (1063378)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 1 July 2011.
  14. ^ Cox, J. Charles (1916) Lincolnshire p. 349; Methuen & Co. Ltd
  15. ^ Peggy Curran, "The unknown Canadian: Hudson widow alerts British village  to heroic pilot's grave," Montreal Gazette 11 November 2010; see also "War widow travels 3,000 miles to visit the county grave of her airman husband," Lincolnshire Echo http://parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Files/Parish/51/ConnorLincsecho.pdf

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