Village history project
Postcard of Hanby Hall Hanby Hall was the manor house for the lost village of Hanby, mentioned as one of the three manors in the Domesday Book under the entries for Waletune (Modern Welton le Marsh in Lincolnshire). It was demolished in 1975 having stood derelict for a long period. (Villager Tim Broughton claims responsibility… Continue reading Hanby Hall
Account of Edmund Oldfield The following description of the village of Welton le Marsh in 1829 is taken from "Topographical and historical account of Wainfleet and the Wapentake of candle shoe, in the County of Lincoln." by Edmund Oldfield. The original text can be seen at https://archive.org/stream/atopographicala01oldfgoog/atopographicala01oldfgoog_djvu.txt The original text rambles between topics, so paragraphs… Continue reading Welton le Marsh in 1829
Aerial view of Hanby Hall and Welton Castle Hanby, a deserted mediaeval village Hanby was a village mentioned in the Domesday survey of 1086 associated as an outlying dependency of Welton le Marsh. The village disappeared in 1348 when the population perished from the Black Death or moved away as it was no longer a… Continue reading The lost village of Hanby
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