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Bourne–Morton Canal
The Bourne–Morton Canal is a Roman-era former canal and archaeological feature located to the north-east of Bourne, Lincolnshire in the UK. In maps and documents, it is sometimes referred to as the Old Ea. It was a artificial waterway linking the dry ground at Bourne to either the coast near Pinchbeck or a navigable estuary in the area. Excavation at Cross Drove in the 1990s suggests that the canal was around deep at high tide, 6 m wide at the base, and 10 to 12 metres wide at the surface. It appears to date back to Roman times, although very little is known. Despite the extensive agricultural reworking of the area, the route can still be traced with cropmarks, which are straight between Bourne and Morton Fen. The path of the canal can be traced between the line of modern Spalding Road from near Queens Bridge to the bottom of Meadow Drove follows the southern bank of the alignment, which can then be observed across the fields as cropmarks. Several farm buildings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bourne, Lincolnshire
Bourne is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the South Kesteven Non-metropolitan district, district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies on the eastern slopes of the limestone Kesteven Uplands and the western edge of the The Fens, Fens, north-east of Stamford, Lincolnshire, Stamford, west of Spalding, Lincolnshire, Spalding and north of Peterborough. The population at the 2011 census was 14,456. A 2019 estimate put it at 16,780. History The ancient woodland of Bourne Woods is still extant, although much reduced. It originally formed part of the ancient Forest of Kesteven and is now managed by the Forestry Commission. The earliest documentary reference to ''Brunna'', meaning stream, is from a document of 960, and the town appeared in Domesday Book of 1086 as ''Brune''. Bourne Abbey, (charter 1138), formerly held and maintained land in Bourne and other parishes. In later times this was known as the manor of Bourne Abbots. Whether the canons knew that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austerby
Austerby is a suburb and street in Bourne, Lincolnshire, Bourne, Lincolnshire. While it was formerly a separate village, over the years it was absorbed into Bourne as the town grew. Today, Bourne Austerby is a local government ward, with a total population of 8,038 in the 2021 census. Name Austerby derives from the Old Norse 'austarrr', which means easterly, and the Old Danish 'by', which means village or farmstead. Austerby was mentioned in the Domesday Book, and it was later recorded in the Pipe rolls, Pipe Rolls of 1167 as 'Astrebi', in the Lincolnshire Assize Rolls of 1206 as Oustreby, and in the Calendar of Charter Rolls of 1327 as 'Oustirby'. History In its early history, Austerby was likely no more than a farmstead to the east of Bourne. In 1486 it was noted in a Feet of fines, Feet of Fines. During the railway age, Austerby hosted an inn called the Railway Tavern (however, as the building predates the railway, being built in 1720, it is likely it previously had anot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Sites In Lincolnshire
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Bourne Railway Station
Bourne was a railway station serving the town of Bourne in Lincolnshire, which opened in 1860 and closed to passengers in 1959. History The station was on the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway main line between the Midlands and the Norfolk Coast. It was finally closed in 1959 when the M&GN was closed. The line from Spalding and also the Sleaford branch as far as Billingborough remained in use for goods until 1964. The remaining station buildings were demolished in 2005 to make way for new residential development. The original station opened in 1860 as the terminus of the Bourn and Essendine Railway, which provided connecting services to the Great Northern main line, and the local Stamford and Essendine Railway. It was this company which took over the Red Hall rather than demolishing it. The line was operated by the GNR, and later owned by them. The line was closed in June 1951. The next development was the opening of the Bourne and Spalding Railway in 1866, co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bourne Abbey
Bourne Abbey and the Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul is a scheduled Grade I church in Bourne, Lincolnshire, England. The building remains in parochial use, despite the 16th-century Dissolution, as the nave was used by the parish, probably from the time of the foundation of the abbey in 1138. Monastic origins While the Domesday Book of 1086 makes it clear that there was a church in Bourne in 1066, and there is a suggestion that there was an Anglo-Saxon abbey, as far as is firmly known, the abbey was founded as a canonry, by a charter granted in 1138, by Baldwin fitz Gilbert de Clare (with the consent of Roger his son and Adelina his wife). He was a member of a post-conquest Norman family, settled in Suffolk, which later made its mark in Wales and Ireland. Adelina was a great-granddaughter of Hereward the Wake, though the connection with the Wake family was not made until the generation after Baldwin and Adelina, when their daughter Emma married Hugh Wake. The house ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bourne Castle
Bourne Castle was a castle in the market town of Bourne, Lincolnshire, Bourne in southern Lincolnshire (). A ringwork castle may have been established in Bourne soon after 1071 by Oger the Breton (largest landholder in Bourne in the 1086 Domesday account). The founding of a castle which may have been built on the old Saxon manor, or within the vicinity, may have came about from the rise and quashing of the Saxon rebellion led by the legendary Hereward ‘the Wake’. It is believed that the rebellion had been funded by the Saxon Earl Morcar. The manor of Bourne passed into the hands of Ralph, Son of Oger, thence onto William and Richard Du Rullos (c1114). At some point in its early life the castle transitioned into a motte and Bailey and built from timber. It is believed that the motte may have been added by Baldwin of Clare, Baldwin FitzGilbert (son of Gilbert Fitz Richard, of the De Clare family)(this Baldwin is not to be confused with the older Baldwin FitzGilbert aka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbey Lawn
The Abbey Lawn in Bourne, Lincolnshire, England, is a centrally located space used as the principal recreation ground in the town. The cricket, tennis, bowls, pétanque, and association football, football clubs play their home fixtures here. The Field hockey, hockey club practices here, though it now plays its fixtures on an AstroTurf, all-weather pitch elsewhere. "''The Lawn''" is the site of the Bourne Cricket Club (Lincolnshire) and its associated facilities. Origins Though all or most of the land once formed part of the estate of the canons of Bourne Abbey and the swimming pool originated as one of their fish ponds, the present form of the Abbey Lawn and its name derive from the 18th century development of a sheep lawn as an adjunct of the house built by George Pochin, the then lord of the manor of Bourne Abbots. His house was on the site of the Cloister, claustral buildings of the monastic abbey which had been Dissolution of the Monasteries, dissolved in 1536. A sheep law ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bourne Eau
Bourne Eau is a short river which rises from an artesian spring in the town of Bourne in Lincolnshire, England, and flows in an easterly direction to join the River Glen at Tongue End. Within the town, it once powered three water mills, one of which is now a heritage centre. At Eastgate, it becomes much wider as it was navigable in the 18th and 19th centuries, and this was the location of the terminal basin. Below the town it is an embanked river, as its normal level is higher than that of the surrounding Fens. Navigation ceased in the 1860s and the river now forms an important part of the drainage system that enables the surrounding fen land to be used for agriculture. The artesian spring is fed by a limestone aquifer, which has been extensively used to supply drinking water to the locality and to Spalding. After a period of low rainfall in the late 1980s, the spring and hence the upper river dried up completely. A remediation project was implemented in 1992/93 to repair wild ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Street (Roman Road)
King Street is the name of a modern road on the line of a Roman road. It runs on a straight course in eastern England, between the City of Peterborough and South Kesteven in Lincolnshire. This English name has long been applied to the part which is still in use and which lies between Ailsworth Heath, in the south and Kate's Bridge, in the north. The old road continued to Bourne thence north-westwards to join Ermine Street south of Ancaster. This part of Ermine Street is called High Dike. In the south, King Street joined Ermine Street close to the River Nene, north of '' Durobrivae''. The whole is I. D. Margary's Roman road number 26. (Margary pp. 232–234) Route Archaeological work has revealed more of its length than is in use nowadays. Its course is regarded as having run from the boundary between Ailsworth and Castor, at the north-west corner of Normangate Field, just north of the River Nene (TL113980). This is where it left the Roman Ermine Street, north-west of '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman-era
In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD. It encompasses the Roman Kingdom (753–509 BC), the Roman Republic (50927 BC), and the Roman Empire (27 BC476 AD) until the fall of the western empire. Ancient Rome began as an Italic settlement, traditionally dated to 753 BC, beside the River Tiber in the Italian peninsula. The settlement grew into the city and polity of Rome, and came to control its neighbours through a combination of treaties and military strength. It eventually controlled the Italian Peninsula, assimilating the Greek culture of southern Italy (Magna Graecia) and the Etruscan culture, and then became the dominant power in the Mediterranean region and parts of Europe. At its height it controlled the North African coast, Egypt, Southern Europe, and most of Western Europe, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Car Dyke
The Car Dyke was, and to a large extent still is, a long ditch which runs along the western edge of the Fens in eastern England for a distance of over . It is generally accepted as being a Roman invasion of Britain, Roman construction and was, for many centuries, considered to mark the western edge of the Fens. Its name derives from ''carr'', a fourteenth-century word for ''marsh'' or ''drained land''. History The Car Dyke is a ditch that runs through the counties of Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire. The main section starts close to the River Witham at Washingborough, near Lincoln, England, Lincoln and runs in a generally southerly direction to Fengate, Peterborough, Fengate on the River Nene, near Peterborough. A second artificial watercourse, also known as Car Dyke, runs for from Setchel Fen on the Old West River, part of the River Great Ouse system, southwards to Waterbeach on the River Cam. The northern section is around long, and is by far the longest artificial waterway co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cropmark
Cropmarks or crop marks are a means through which sub-surface archaeological, natural and recent features may be visible from the air or a vantage point on higher ground or a temporary platform. Such marks, along with parch marks, soil marks and frost marks, can reveal buried man-made structures that are not visible from the ground. Description Crop marks are due to the principle of differential growth. One of the factors controlling the growth of vegetation is the condition of the soil. A buried stone wall, for example, will affect crop growth above it, as its presence channels water away from its area and occupies the space of the more fertile soil. Conversely, a buried ditch, with a fill containing more organic matter than the natural earth, provides much more conducive conditions and water will naturally collect there, nourishing the plants growing above. The differences in conditions will cause some plants to grow more strongly and therefore taller, and others less st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
