The Church is dedicated to St Andrew

Lay Subsidy 1334 of Asgarby and Broughton

1. Richard Nichol                     6s-0d
2. Henry filius prepositi         3s-0d
3. henry filius Johannis          3s-4d
4. Agnes relicta Ricardi          2s-6d
5. Robert filius Elye                 6s-8d
6. Robert de la More              3s-0d
7. John Knokel                        2s-0d
8. Amice de la More                 1s-2d
9. William filius Elye                2s-0d
10. Richard de Woluyf              2s-0d
11. peter Longi                          4s-0d
12. Adam filius Ricardi            2s-0d
13. John knokel                        4s-0d
14. Thomas Tulhous               2s-6d
15. William de Clyfton             6s-6d
16. Thomas Aungewyn          1s-0d
17. Elena Rold                           2s-0d
18. Marg Rold                            2s-0d
19. Richard molendarius        3s-0d
20. Thomas Kyng                    2s-4d
21. Henry Wlly                           2s-0d
22. Adam bate                          1s-0d
23. Richard del More               1s-0d
24. John filius Ricardi              2s-0d
25. John filius Johannis         2s-1d

The History & Gazeteer of 1856

Asgarby, a small village, 3 miles East of Sleaford, has in its parish only 91 souls and 838 acres of land, including the hamlet of Boughton.   The Marquis of Bristol is lord of the manor, owner of nearly all the soil, and patron of the Church, which is a neat gothic fabric with a handsome spire.   The chancel has lataely been newly roofed and new pinnacles put on the tower.    The rectory, valued in K.B. at £10-14s-4d is united with that of Kirkby-la-Thorpe, and the tithes here are commuted for £200 per annum.   The parish is entitled to send children to Ewerby free school, and a poor man to Sleaford Hospital.   The two farmers are Thos SNEATH of Boughton,  and Bruce TOMLINSON of Asgarby.

Whites Directory 1872 for Asgarby

1. ASGARBY.   A small village 3 miles E of Sleaford. has in its parish only 92 souls, and 838 acres of land, including the hamlet of Boughton.  The Marquis of Bristol is the lord of the manor, owner of nearly all the soil, and patron of the benefice   The church [St Andrew] is a neat gothic fabric, with a handsome tower and spire containing four bells.   The building was restored in 1870, when a handsome oak pulpit was presented by Captain Tomlinson, and new open benches substituted for the old pews.  The rectory, valued in K.B. at £10-14s-4d has been united with that of Kirkby la Thorpe since 1737, and the tithes here are commuted for £200 per annum. The parish is entitled to send two children toEwerby free school, and a poor man to Sleaford Hospital.          
2. The PRINCIPAL INHABITANTS are
4. Rev Henry ANDERS B A Rector; h Kirkby-la-Thorpe;       
5. John GREEN, farmer and grazier;     
6. Charles SHARP parish clerk;         
7. Frederick SNEATH, farmer and grazier,  Boughton;            
8. Captain Bruce TOMLINSON farmer and grazier.

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ASGARBY AND HOWELL: BOUGHTON                  TF 123455

Boughton, is now represented by Boughton House, a farm which appears to stand on the site of the medieval manor house (Fig 3 ). The vill is not mentioned by name in Domesday Book, but it is clear from later records that its land was included in the bishop of Lincoln's sokeland of Sleaford which was identified as Howell (1), and it is likely that it was already in existence in 1086. The first explicit notice of the settlement, however, is not found until the late twelfth century, and subsequently it was a hamlet of Asgarby (2). In 1258 Peter de Bukeden held one tenth of a knight's fee there by the enfeoffment of St Hugh, but the holding was probably ministerial, and most of the land seems to have been held by the bishop in demesne throughout the Middle Ages (3). After the Dissolution the estate was acquired by Robert Carre of Sleaford, and it subsequently passed to the Bristol family (4). Its extent was probably much the same as that of Boughton Manor Farm in an estate terrier of 1860 (5).

Owing to the considerable amount of permanent pasture which still exists in the area, the site has changed little in appearance since aerial photographs were taken in the 1960s (Pl 1) (6). This survival has provided a rare opportunity in Lincolnshire to plot the upstanding as well as the more recently ploughed ridge and furrow around the settlement (Fig 4), and thereby determine the maximum extent of the hamlet. Occupying an area of approximately 200 by 250 metres, Boughton was always small. Shrinkage probably began in the early to mid fourteenth century, and desertion may have been all but complete by the sixteenth (7).

1. Lincs DB, 7/46; QCO MS 366, f,ix. In Domesday Book the bishop's land in Howell is assessed at five carucates and three bovates. In 1258, however, there were only thirteen bovates of the bishop's fee in the settlement. The missing three carucates and six bovates must have been situated in Boughton and possibly Asgarby (RA no 377).

2. Templars, 8; FA iii, 189.

3. QCO, MS 366, f,ix; FA iii, 250.

4. Trollope, 330.

5. Bristol Estate Survey 1860, privately owned, Sleaford Museum, 1970s.

6. CCAP, CFK 054

7. M. W. Beresford, The Lost Villages of England, London 1954, 363.

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Kelly's Directory 1913 for Asgarby

1. FOOTTIT William -parish clerk
2. GODSON George -farmer, Cottage farm
3. POCKLINGTON James -farmer
4. SNEATH Fred John Newton(exors of) -farmers, Boughton
5. SNEATH Frederick William -farmer A