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The settlement of Donington on Bain is first documented in the Domesday Book, and was known at that time as 'Duninctune'. Sokeland was recorded there, belonging to a manor in Belchford of Ivo Taillebois. There was a minimum population of 34 at that time, comprising 28 sokemen and 6 bordars. Two mills are also mentioned (see 44722). The name probably means 'the farmstead, village associated with Dunn(a)' from the Old English personal name. {1}{2}
The Poll Tax returns of 1377 recorded 96 taxpayers. {3}
By 1563 there 31 households recorded in the Diocesan Returns, and by the early eighteenth century there were 40 households. {4}{5}
The population in 1801 was 188, and by 1901 this had risen to 343, peaking in the nineteenth century in 1861 at 552. {6}
There is an old enclosure to the north of Donington on Bain within which are signs of occupation (padstones, cobbles and floor areas). The area is regularly ploughed and a good range of pottery has been found; 13th to 15th century wares and post medieval sherds including a 19th century bellamine base and two sherds of flask. There are good earthworks found in the field to the west of Mill Road and it is possible that the medieval village extended to the mill. {7}
Surviving earthworks are present in the field to the west of Mill Lane (in the field centred at TF 23378 83186) and to the north of the present Donington on Bain village. This is part of the medieval settlement of Donington on Bain. {8}
Further earthworks recorded in and around the village include boundaries, buildings, a pond, ridge and furrow and hollow ways. {9}
During an excavation and a watching brief, a scatter of fourteenth to sixteenth century pottery was recorded (formerly 43963). {10}{11}
Trial trenching at land adjacent to Croft House (TF 23493 82955) revealed pits containing early medieval pottery (PRN 40728a) and the course of a palaeochannel which silted up during medieval or post medieval times and was then used as a trackway (PRN 40728b). {12}{13} | Subjects: | General Archaeology | Temporal: | 1000 - 1539 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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