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Description: | Biscathorpe is first documented in the Domesday Book in 1086 when it is recorded as having three manors. Three villeins, seven bordars and nine sokemen are listed there giving a minimum population of nineteen people. There are also two mills recorded presumably on the Bain. {7}
The name Biscathorpe means 'Bishop's settlement', probably referring to the Bishop of Durham who holds the manors of the village in Domesday Book and in the Lindsey Survey of 1115. {7}{8}
In 1377 twenty-one people paid the Poll Tax. {3}
The settlement is recorded in the Diocesan returns of 1563 with 17 households. {9}
There were 12 families living in the parish in 1723. {10}
In 1856 Biscathorpe was a parish of 69 people with a church dedicated to St Helen. {2}
Surviving earthworks of medieval village, associated enclosures and strip fields lie under permanent pasture. Six house sites with crofts are visible at edge of flood plain. About 11 metres long by 6 metres wide. They show traces of rubble walling connected by paths and fieldways to surrounding enclosures. Average height of banks 1 metre. Earthworks are visible on an RAF aerial photograph. {4}{5} | Subjects: | General Archaeology | Temporal: | 1000 - 1539 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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