Osbournby

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Osbournby

The village of Osbournby is situated in the wapentake of Aveland in the Kesteven division of Lincolnshire. Straddling the fen-edge, the area is one of the most distinctive in the whole of the county. Some thirteen miles by seven, it encompassed at least 39 communities in the High Middle Ages, of which 37 are recorded by name in Domesday Book, and its rich resources of upland, skirt, and fenland supported a large population until the advent of factory farming in the present century. Despite such wealth and consequent early exploitation, the study of the origins and development of settlement in the region is not a simple task for the history of Lincolnshire is poorly documented before 1086. The paucity of evidence has long been attributed to the destruction of monasteries in the Danish conquest and colonisation of the Northern Danelaw in the ninth and tenth centuries. This is clearly an over-simplification. Foundations like Peterborough were undoubtedly extinguished in the 870's. But religious life did continue. There was evidently a community at Bardney in 909 when Edward raided the site and removed the relics of St Oswald to Gloucester, and small, probably secular, colleges of priests, such as Winghale and Bourne, may have been common in the tenth and early eleventh centuries. But foundations of this type were not rich, for the relative freedom of society in the North did not provide the resources for, or encourage the endowment of, large houses. As largely family monasteries or collegiate eigenkirchen, they left little documentation relating to their own estates and failed to become the repositories of local record. Thus, there are only some twenty or so references to fen-edge estates in the Anglo-Saxon period, and merely two authentic charters survive from before 971.

None of these refers to Osbournby. The first notice of the settlement in the sources is to be found in Domesday Book. In 1086 Osbournby was divided between two tenants-in-chief. Gilbert de Gant, in succession to Ulf Fensic, held 4 carucates of land, 16 sokemen, 8 bordars, and a church in the soke of his manor of Folkingham. The remaining two carucates of the vill formed a separate manor which had passed from a certain Alfric to Guy de Craon by the time of the survey. There were 5 villeins, 3 bordars and a sokeman there, and Guy as lord enjoyed the soke of a further 6 bovates in Dembleby, 4 carucates and a church in Haydour, and half a church and a priest in Scot Willoughby 'who belonged to Osbournby'. Neither entry provides unequivocal evidence for the form of settlement in the eleventh century, much less that of an earlier period, and the later history of the village does little to elucidate the problem, although the fact that the church of today belonged to the Gant fee throughout the Middle Ages may suggest that there was already a settlement cluster on the site of the present village in 1086. As a survey of estates and their issues, Domesday Book is of little use for the reconstruction of local topography. Its description of estate structure, however, is unparalleled. The complex patterns of tenure that it preserves frequently retains vestiges of earlier territorial organisations. It is the inter-relation between the two holdings in Osbournby and the surrounding estates that provides the clue to the development of the settlement

Text courtesy of D.R.Roffe from his excellent History site




Lay Subsidy 1332 of Osbournby

Simon Broun 4s-2d
William de Yerdeborn 4s-0d
Nicholas Faber 4s-6d
Sarah de halle 4s-8d
John de Asceby 3s-5d
Adam de Pykworth 5s-3d
Anger filius Thome 5s-4d
William le Mazoun 2s-0d
Geoffrey Turpyn 2s-1d
Robert Aunger 3s-2d
John de Lindesay 4s-6d
Agnes de la More 4s-2d
William Crok 2s-6d
Lambert le Mazoun 3s-0d
Thomas de la More 1s-7d
Eleanor de la More 4s-4d
Thomas de Folkyngham 2s-0d
William de Tymberlond 1s-0d
Gilbert de Stowe 3s-0d
Robert de Northop 1s-6d
John le Taylour 1s-4d
Isolda de la More 3s-0d
Roger Chapman 3s-1d
William de Northop 2s-0d
Richard filius Ricardi prepositi 3s-2d
Robert de Somercotes 2s-0d
Richard filius Henrici 5s-2d
Thomas atte portam ecclesie 1s-8d
Thomas Gregorii 1s-2d
William filius Eue 2s-0d
Thomas Corueiser 1s-6d
Adam de Lindesey 1s-0d
Robert Maris 3s-0d
John Coueyser 2s-0d
Alice Gunnild 4s-0d
Walter de Dichyrche 3s-6d
Robert Corueiser 1s-0d
Robert Geffray 8d
Geoffrey de Eglsthorp 8d


A description of Osbournby from Kelly's directory 1872

Osbournby is a large and pleasant village on the Sleaford Road 3 miles N of Folkingham, 2.1/2 from scredington railway station, and 6 miles S of Sleaford and has in its parish 606 souls and 1260 acres of land. Sir Thomas Whichcote, Bart, is lord of the manor, impropriator, and owner of a great part of the soil., and the rest belongs to the CAPP, CRAGG, CHAMBERS, HOLMES and other families. The Church is a handsome structure with some fine architecture, of the age of Edward III, consists of a nave with aisles, a chancel, south porch and a west tower, in which are three bells. Nearly all the old open seats remain and are richly carved examples of perpendicular work. The font is Anglo-Norman ornamented with pillars and interlaced semicircular arches. The church contains 276 sittings, 69 of which are free. The old singing loft was taken down and the church repaired in 1871 at a cost of £70. The vicarage, valued in K B at £7-0s-5d, and now at £250 is in the gift of Hulmes Trustees, and incumbency of the Rev Thomas Molineux Jackson,M A. The vicarage is a handsome brick residence with stone facings, rebuilt in 1864 by the present incumbent and the patrons, ata cost of £900. The benefice has 32cres of land at Donington, purchased with an augmentation from Queen Ann's Bounty and private benefaction. The old glebe is 18 acres, to which 98 acres was added at the enclosure, when all tithes were commuted for allotments. The wesleyans have a neat chapel here, built in 1871 at an outlay of £450, in lieu of the old one erected in 1839. The site was presented by Mr HOLMES. here is a school for boys, girls and infants, endowed with £35 a year by Sir Thomas Whichcote. The poor have a yearly rent-charge of £1, out of land at Manthorpe left by Joseph MILNER in 1666 and the interest of £100 left by the late Mrs Emma CAPP. The school was built by the lord of the manor in 1846.



History and Gazeteer 1856 for

ANDREWS Thomas -grocer & drapers BURCHNALL Wm -saddler &c BRIGGS Richard -farmer BYCROFT Wm -farmer & baker CANT Richard - mole & rat catcher CASSWELL John Cuthbert -miller & maltster CAPP Mr John CASWELL Mrs CASSWELL Thomas -farmer CHAMBERS Mary -farmer CLAY Richard -vict. Horse & Jockey COLLINGWOOD Wm -grocer & draper FIELDS John -cattle dealer GRAY George -Tailor & draper GREEN Thomas -tailor & draper GREGORY Francis -joiner & wheelwright GRICE John -joiner & wheelwright HALL Robert -farmer HALSTEAD Rev O P -curate, Scot-Willoughby HANDLEY John -mason HANDLEY James -boot &shoe maker HANDLEY Thomas -parish clerk, boot maker HANDLEY Wm HANDLEY Wm -grocer & draper HOLMES James -blacksmith HOLMES Saml -farmer & brickmaker HOLMES S. Jun -farmer HOUGH Richard -farmer JOHNSON John -butcher LUMB Geo -plumber & glazier MARVIN Emanuel - joiner & wheelwright MILLINGTON James -gardener MONEY Henry -joiner & wheelwright MOWBRAY Joseph -farmer PARKER Jno Fras -tailor & draper PARNELL Thos -grocer, draper & beerhouse PAWLEY Robt -miller & baker PEARSON Rev John -vicar PRITCHETT James L -surgeon RAWDON John -boot & shoe maker ROE Wm & Mrs -school SHORT Henry -machine owner SKAITH Samuel -gardener SPENCER Thomas -butcher THOMPSON Thos. George -farmer WHICHCOTE George Esq WRIGHT John -vict, Coach & Horses WRIGHT Wm -blacksmith



	Whites's Directory 1872 for Osbournby

	ANDREW John -tailor & woolen drapers BAKER Mrs Catherine BIRD Dixon -shopkeeper BRIGGS Mrs Charlotte -farmer BRIGGS Jacob -farmer BROCKLESBY Richard, surgeon Etc BYCROFT Wm -farmer & baker CAPPS Mr John CASSWELL Mrs CASSWELL Thomas -farmer CHAMBERS Mary -farmer CHEW Matthew James -plumber & glazier CLAY Richard -farmer CROSDIL Thos Hickin & Mrs S -school FRUDD Francis -farmer & grazier GILBY William -saddler GRICE John -carpenter HANDLEY Robert -boot & shoe maker HANDLEY Mrs -boot & shoe maker HANDLEY Thomas -parish clerk, boot maker HANDLEY Robert -boot & shoe maker HANDLEY Wm -grocer & draper HOLMES Mrs HOLMES Saml -farmer & brickmaker JACKSON Rev Thomas Molineux M A JOHNSON John -butcher & farmer LENTON William -police constable MARVIN Emanuel - joiner & builder MILLINGTON James -market gardener PACEY Mrs Eliz -milliner & dressmaker PARKER Jno Fras -tailor & draper PARNELL Thos -shopkeeper, milliner & beerhouse PICKWORTH William -grocer draper & gen dealer RAWDON John -boot & shoe maker REDSHAW John Storey -carrier ROBINSON Tennant -wheelwright SINGLETON John -baker & corn dealer SCAITH Samuel -gardener SPENCER Thomas -butcher & farmer SWIFT John -tailor WOODS John -farmer & cowkeeper WOODS Joseph -farmer WRIGHT John -farmer & cowkeeper WRIGHT Wm -blacksmithP