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__NOTOC__ Legsby (otherwise Legesby) is a small village and
civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...
in the
West Lindsey West Lindsey is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in Lincolnshire, England. Its council is based in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, Gainsborough, the district's largest town. The district also includes the towns of Caistor and M ...
district of
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, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 193. It is situated approximately north-east from the city of
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and south-east from the town of
Market Rasen Market Rasen ( ) is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish within the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The River Rase runs through it east to west, approximately north-east from Lincoln, England, Lincoln, eas ...
. The parish includes the settlements of Bleasby, Bleasby Moor, Collow, and East Torrington.


History

In the ''
Domesday Domesday Book ( ; the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of William the Conqueror. The manuscript was originally known by ...
'' account Legsby is recorded as "Lagesbi". "Documents Online: Legsby, Lincolnshire"
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It consisted of 6 villagers and 1
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, 2 ploughlands, a meadow and woodland of each and a mill. In 1066 Alsi son of Godram held the
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, transferred to Everard of Leathley in 1086, with
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becoming William of Percy. ''Domesday'' notes a now nonexistent village of Holtham in Legsby, named "Houten", to the east, with 4 villagers, 2 smallholders, 6 freemen, 2 ploughlands, a 30-acre meadow, and lord and tenantship as Legsby. Bleasby, "Belesbi", contained 2 villagers, 2 smallholders and 2 freemen, with 3 ploughlands, a meadow and woodland of each, and Aghmund son of Walraven as lord in 1066, becoming Herman, with Tenant-in Chief as Jocelyn son of Lambert, in 1086. To the north and south of St Thomas' church are
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and a
hollow way A sunken lane (also hollow way or holloway) is a road or track that is significantly lower than the land on either side, not formed by the (recent) engineering of a road cutting but possibly of much greater age. Holloways may have been formed i ...
, indicating Legsby medieval village. By 1187 the village and church had been granted to the
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priory of
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. At the 1541
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Legsby manor was given to Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, who sold it the same year. The estate was later bought by Richard Nelthorpe, and it remained in the Nettlethorpe family until the early 20th century. Bleasby, less than to the south, is the site of a
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and
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, defined by moat, croft, field and pond
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. '' Pevsner'' saw the moat as "surprisingly small but quite unmistakable".Pevsner, Nikolaus; Harris, John; ''The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire'' p. 296; Penguin, (1964); revised by Nicholas Antram (1989), Yale University Press. A windmill mound, The Mount, south of Bleasby at the end of Mount Lane, and now covered by trees, is the site of Bleasby Mill, documented in the 13th century. The mound probably existed before the 12th century establishment of the adjacent Collow
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. The settlement remains of the Legsby hamlet of Holtham, in the 16th century known as Howdome and comprising four families, is defined by crop mark evidence of a moated monastic or manor house, and a
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field system. Earthwork remains of a moat, paddocks, ditch,
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and trackways were visible in 1846, but were demolished in the 1960s. Collow, north-west from East Torrington, is a possible manorial or medieval site. Machinery finds could indicate a 16th- or 17th-century mill, and moat, pond, ditch, croft and field earthworks of a defensive homestead. East Torrington, south-east of Legsby, contains earthworks adjacent to the north-west of the church, with rectilinear ditches, a hollow way, and ridge and furrow field system, indicating a medieval village. The hamlet was conjoined with West Torrington in the 14th century. The present St Michael's church was designed by
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, and was built on, or close to, a previous church. '' Kelly's'' 1885 Directory records Major Robert Nassau Sutton JP as
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, and a principal landowner with Edward Heneage MP, DL, JP. The parish was of , with agricultural production comprising wheat, barley, oats and turnips. It held a
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chapel and a church school for 50 children. There were nine farms, one a
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farm, two shoe makers, a blacksmith, shopkeeper and
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. Bleasby hamlet held
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chapels, four farms and a wheelwright, and Collow hamlet, two farms.''Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull'' 1885, p. 514


Church

Legsby
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church is dedicated to St Thomas. It is originally 13th-century, and of Early English and Tudor styles, and includes a
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,
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, and
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style
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d
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containing one bell. A
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east window was inserted in memory of a mid-19th-century vicar. ''Pevsner'' records that the church was probably altered in the 18th century, with a shortening of the chancel, and has a
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, ''Kelly's'' giving it Romanesque attribution, and a
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and
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cover dated 1569. ''Cox'' believes that the font and chalice are the only thing of interest in the church.Cox, J. Charles (1916) ''Lincolnshire'' p. 195; Methuen & Co. Ltd.


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