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The study of rural settlement occupies a significant place in geographical literature and the relationship between settlement patterns on the one hand and physical, economic and social conditions on the other has long been recognised. In eastern England the pattern of rural settlement is composed basically of nucleated villages established in pre-Conquest times and of dispersed settlement made at a much later date, mainly in the last two hundred years. While the pattern of this settlement is generally well-known, the conditions under which it came into being are not so well appreciated. This study has therefore been prepared as an attempt to assess and elucidate these conditions as they applied to an area of approximately fifteen miles radius around the City of Lincoln.1
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This article is based largely on the writer’s unpublished M.A. thesis, entitled Population and Settlement in Kesteven, circa 1775 — circa 1885, University of Nottingham, 1957 (1958). For an interpretation of township boundaries see D. R. Mills, ‘Regions of Kesteven devised for the purposes of agricultural history’ in Reports and Papers of the Lincs. Architectural and Archeological Society, 7 (1), 1957, pp. 60–82.
Monastic orders were often given grants of demesne land which could be enclosed without undue complications (see Victoria County History, County of Lincoln II, pp. 202–4, 206, 211, 212–13 and 239). Sites of monastic houses on figure 2.1 are based on Victoria County History, County of Lincoln II; Mrs F. L. Baker, History ofRiseholme (1956) pp. 18–20 and
C. W. Foster and T. Longley, The Lincolnshire Domesday Lincoln Record Society, Vol. 19 (1924) pp. xlvii—lxxii.
Lincs. Archives Office: information for Odder from Hathey Account Book of Bishop’s Possessions; for Branston Booths from inventory circa 1566.
Nos. 14–21 on figure 2.1 are depopulated settlements based on Foster and Longley, loc. cit., and M. Beresford, The Lost Villages of England (1954) pp. 361–4.
Information on Coates and other villages north of Lincoln from D. R. Mills, Settlement Patterns and Population in the Till Basin, unpublished B.A. dissertation, University of Nottingham, 1952; LAO, LD 71/4 and
T. M. Blagg, Somerton Castle, paper read to the Thoroton Society of Notts., 20 May 1933, p. 1.
Based on A. Armstrong’s One-Inch map of Lincs., 1776–8 and on many maps of individual townships.
Public Record Office, HO 107/2104–6. (See also below, chapter 10, for another example of the use of these records. Ed.)
Information for 1891 and 1901 from H. Green, Lincolnshire Town and Village Life Lincoln Public Library (1901–4) p. 23.
A. Demangeon, Problèmes de Géographie Humaine (Paris, 1952) pp. 199–200.
Major sources of information for this section are: Joan Thirsk, English Peasant Farming, the agrarian history of Lincolnshire from Tudor to recent times (1957);
T. Stone, General View of the Agriculture of Lincolnshire (1794);
D. R. Mills, ‘Enclosure in Kesteven’, Agricultural History Review vii (1959) 82–97.
K. Norgate and M. H. Footman, ‘Some notes for a history of Nocton’, Reports and Papers of the Associated Archeological Societies, 24 (II), 1897–8, p. 368.
A. R. Maddison, An Account of the Sibthorpe Family (Lincoln, 1896), p. 27.
D. R. Mills, ‘The poor laws and the distribution of population, circa 1600–1860, with special reference to Lincolnshire’, Trans. Inst. Brit. Geogrs. 26 (1959) 185–95. See also Chapter 8, below.
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Mills, D.R. (1973). The Development of Rural Settlement Around Lincoln. In: Mills, D.R. (eds) English Rural Communities. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15516-3_3
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