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Description: | PRN 62297
'Kirkby' is derived from Old Danish meaning 'the village with a church', which is normally a name given to villages in which the Danes found a church on their arrival (or even founded by them), and it may have been an early church of some importance. It is suggested that the territory of Kirkby Green was carved out of Scopwick by the Danes. 'Green' refers to a village green (from Middle English). The village was known as Kirkby Green by 1409. {1}{2}{3}{4}
Kirkby Green and Scopwick were returned together for the purposes of the Domesday Survey. A church and a priest are mentioned, and it may have been the church suggested by the place-name evidence. Three manors and two holdings of sokeland are mentioned, and the population was comparatively high at that time (minimum population of about 65). One entry records a sokeman with an entire team and four acres of meadow which is unusually high. The men of Navenby were in dispute at the time of the Domesday Survey, and before, about money to be paid, possibly for use of land at Scopwick and Kirkby Green. {7}
22 households were recorded in the Diocesan Returns in 1563, which had fallen to between 10 and 16 families by the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century. {8}{9}
There are no separate population statistics for Kirkby Green recorded in the nineteenth century censuses. {10}
During a watching brief on a residential development, features dating from the 9th century to the 11th century were recorded in Plot 3 (TF 0849 5784 - PRN 62297a), close to Holy Cross Church and indicating previously unknown activity in the Late Saxon period. Three sherds of 13th to 14th century pottery were recovered from a gully in Plot 3. Two (or three) sherds of probable 16th century pottery were recovered from Plot 2. There is a possibility that these sherds may be Anglo-Saxon - see specialist report (formerly PRNs 62300 and 62301). {5}{6}
A possible medieval moat end enclosures are visible on aerial photographs (PRN 62297b). {11}{12} | Subjects: | General Archaeology | Temporal: | 800 - 999 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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