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Baston

  • "Historia Brittonum" tells us that King Arthur fought his first battle in the area to stop the spread of the Angles and Saxons. A large Anglo-Saxon burial plot has been found near King Street and was in use up to about the year 500, which corresponds with the start of Arthur's exploits.
     
  • Gravel extraction has historically been an active occupation here.
     
  • Ancient Saxon pottery has been found in a field near the village.
     
  • Baston suffered heavily from the Plague that devistated much of Europe in the early 1600s.
     
  • The booklet "Baston Through The Ages" was published in 1999, delivered to 500 houses for free, and published in 2000 in colour by the Baston Environmental group. It is 90 pages and covers 6000 years. Thank you, Peter RAYNER, 2010.
     
  • Richard CROFT has a photograph of The Spinning Wheel Pub. in Church Street on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2008.
     
  • The Spinning Wheel, opened in the 18th century, closed a few years back, but is now (2013) operating as the White Horse. The name was changed to White Horse prior to 1840.
     
  • The Spinning Wheel was a popular conversation spot. These are the names associated with the place in various directories:
Year Person
1840Robert STEVENS, vict.
1856Henry ROSLIN
1868Richard BERRIDGE, builder & stone mason
1872Wiliam COOPER, vict.
1882John PERCIVAL, vict.
1900Joseph STANTON, thrashing machine owner
1905Joseph STANTON, thrashing machine owner
1913Daniel STANTON
1930Daniel STANTON
2013Mark RICHARDSON
  • Tim HEATON has a photograph of the Black Horse on geo-graph, taken in August, 2020.
     
  • Marathon has another photograph of the Village Sign on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2011. He also notes that a time capsule is buried beneath the sign. Wonder what's in there?

Lincolnshire

  • You may want to find the book "The History of the County of Lincoln" by ALLEN, publ. 1834. Found online at Archive.Org.
     
  • Here's a handy website of British history which you can search by location.
     
  • The Black Death or Plague swept through Lincolnshire (and all of western Europe) in 1680 through 1690.
     
  • All of England suffered from a "monster" storm in November of 1703 that killed a reported 8,000 people. Seaside villages suffered greatly and their church and civil records may have been lost.
     
  • In a similar storm in early 1953 flooding occurred from Mablethorpe to Skegness, reaching as far as 2 miles inland.
     
  • Liz DAVIES offers a list of names from the Agricultural Workers Revolt of 1872 and a list of Farmers against the Unions of 1874. Her Great Grandfather had an employer who found him reading a newspaper one day. He was asked "Can you read then, Pennell?" "Yes, sir," was the reply. "Then you can pack your bags and be off. We don't want your sort here."
     
  • For reasons that are buried in ancient history, folks who were born in Lincolnshire are called Yellow Bellies. No one knows for sure, but come find a list of possibilities.
     
  • What was life like back in the "good old days"? You might try to find a copy of "Illustrated Journeys of Celia Fiennes," written in 1698. Part 3 covers her trip through East Anglia. Another source is H. E. Bates, who began to write a regular column for "Country Life" (published by Penguin) just before WW2. Beware the authors who paint rosy pictures of the landed gentry and their great estates.
     
  • The book "Life As We Have Known It," Margaret Llewelyn DAVIES, reprinted by Virago in 1977 is a selection of notes written by women around WW1, describing their lives. The chapter by Mrs. Burrows - "A childhood in the Fens 1850-1860", would shatter all of one's illusions about how life in the country really was. She left school at 8 years of age, unable to read or write. She worked 14 hours in the fields with other children younger than her. The ganger had a whip, which "he did not forget to use". They were required to walk at least 2 miles and sometimes around five miles to reach a particular field, and then home again in the evening. (Thank you, Adrian HEDGECOY)
     
  • The Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516 might have your village listed in its Lincolnshire section.
     
  • The "big invention" of the 1800s was the steam engine and the impact it had on agriculture that century. It not only brought the railways, but also steam engines now replaced "ag labs" in the fields and replaced windmills for draining the Fens and pumping water. Oddly, many men found work in the coal mines to supply fuel for these "beasts", while others worked in the iron pits around Scunthorpe because of the demand for iron and steel.
     
  • "The Lincolnshire Poacher" is a traditional English folk song associated with the county of Lincolnshire, and dealing with the joys of poaching. It is considered to be the unofficial county anthem of Lincolnshire and it is the quick march of the Royal Air Force College Cranwell. Find out more at Wikipedia
     

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