By Dr Avril Lumley Prior Fragments of two late tenth-/early eleventh century, wheel-head grave-markers, found during the re-construction of Helpston’s church tower in 1865, indicate that there has been a centre of Christian worship on the site for at least a thousand years. While we only may conjecture that the earliest church was a timber-framed [...]
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by Dr Avril Lumley Prior At Christmas 1085, the aging and obese William I [the Conqueror] (1066-87) ordered seven commissioners to visit all parts of his kingdom, except Durham and Northumberland, to make an inventory of every manor, its livestock, mills, ploughs and households and record their values, both at the end of Edward the [...]
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My family hold the proud accolade of being the first ever family to move into Websters close Glinton. The development was brand new and the year was 1976. These were the first houses to be built in the tiny village of Glinton for years. The fields to the back of our house were later to [...]
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By Avril Lumley Prior Bridget Hirst’s interesting article on Torpel Deer Park (‘Beyond the Pale’, Issue 59) has stirred me into retrieving some research on Robert de Torpel that has been hibernating inside my computer for several winters. Robert de Torpel had an illustrious yet bewildering pedigree. He was one of only two male heirs [...]
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In the eastern corner of Northborough parish on a headland between the medieval courses of the Welland and Follies Rivers lies an enigmatic collection of earthworks and a so-called pack-horse bridge, which represents all that remains above ground of Walderam Hall (Figure 1). Formerly in Maxey parish, Northamptonshire, and strategically positioned close to the river-crossing [...]
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A Brief History of the Langdyke Bush Meeting-Mound by Avril Lumley Prior ‘O Langley Bush! The shepherds’ sacred shade, Thy hollow trunk oft gain’d a look from me, Full many a journey o’er the heath I’ve made, For such like curious things I love to see, What truth the story of the swain allows, That [...]
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MYSTERIES OF SEVEN VILLAGE PUBS LOST IN THE MISTS OF TIME – OR WAS IT THE EXTRA STRONG ALE ?
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The 1922 advertisement for Hydrox Soda Water that illustrated Bob Randall’s article on ‘Helpston Groundwater Project’ (Issue 55) reminded me of nearly 30 years ago when my late father and I were excavating a tip to the rear of the Glinton Artesian Water Company (Sobrite and Hydrox), where we discovered a cache of broken [...]
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