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Quarrington, Lincolnshire Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Quarrington, Lincolnshire

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Quarrington, Lincolnshire history

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Early

Palaeolithic and Bronze Age materials have been discovered in and around Quarrington. While nearby Old Sleaford is known to have been settled in the Iron Age and occupied by the Romans.

Medieval

Quarrington’s medieval name was recorded in the Domesday Book (1086) as Corninctune or Cornunctone, from the Old English cweorn (“mill”) and tun (“homestead”), meaning “miller’s homestead” Ramsey Abbey was granted a manor in the village by Jol of Lincoln, a monk, in c. 1051. A separate village, Millthorpe was also recorded, but the archaeologists Fiona Walker and Tom Lane suggest this may have been an alternative name for the village. In the Lay Subsidy of 1334 in 1334 the village was valued at £4 10½d., slightly below average for its wapentake.

Early and later modern

The Bishop of Lincoln alienated his lands at Quarrington to the Crown in 1547. They passed to Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset and Lord Protector, but reverted to Crown on attainder for treason in 1549. A 1563 diocesan return shows that 17 families lived in the village and 120 people took Holy Communion. By 1872, the parish spanned 1,620 acres and the village contained 63 houses.

Quarrington, Lincolnshire geography / climate

Topography

Quarrington is a market town in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire. It lies between approximately 15 and 25 meters above sea level, close to Lincoln Cliff, a limestone scarp running north–south through Lindsey. The bedrock is Cornbrash limestone belonging to the Great Oolite Group of Jurassic rocks formed 168−165 million years ago.

Climate

Lincolnshire’s position on the east of the Isles allows for a sunnier and warmer climate relative to the national average. The mean average temperature for the East of England is approximately 9 °C to 10.5 °C. The region experiences 30 days of rainfall in winter and 25 in summer, with 15 days of thunder and 6–8 days of hail per year.

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Best Quarrington, Lincolnshire places to visit

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Quarrington, Lincolnshire has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Quarrington, Lincolnshire’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Quarrington, Lincolnshire’s information audio spots:

Sleaford Castle Built by the Bishop of Lincoln in the early 1120s, Sleaford Castle was habitable as late as 1555. Two English monarchs are known to have stayed at the castle, King John and Henry VIII.

Rauceby Hospital Rauceby Hospital, originally called Kesteven County Asylum, is a now-defunct mental institution. Originally opened in 1902, the main hospital building was closed in 1997 and the site has since been redeveloped.

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