Fotherby is a village and
civil parish in the
East Lindsey
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district of
Lincolnshire, England. It is situated just east from the
A16 road
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, east from
Market Rasen, and south from
Cleethorpes
Cleethorpes () is a seaside town on the estuary of the Humber in North East Lincolnshire, England with a population of 38,372 in 2020. It has been permanently occupied since the 6th century, with fishing as its original industry, then develo ...
.
In the ''
Domesday
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'' account Fotherby is written as "Fodrebi". Before the
Conquest
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Military history provides many examples of conquest: the Roman conquest of Britain, the Mauryan conquest of Afghanistan and of vast areas of the Indian subcontinent, t ...
lordship was held by Thorgot Lag, and after, Berengar of Tosny, with
Robert of Tosny as
Tenant-in-chief.
In 1885 ''
Kelly's'' noted six
almshouse
An almshouse (also known as a bede-house, poorhouse, or hospital) was charitable housing provided to people in a particular community, especially during the medieval era. They were often targeted at the poor of a locality, at those from certain ...
s, built in 1866 for the benefit of six poor people by
James Fowler, on the site of an older
glebe house. Parish area was with chief agricultural production of wheat, barley, oats, turnips, seeds and beans, and an 1881 population of 1881.
[''Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull'' 1885, p. 396]
Fotherby
Grade II
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listed
Anglican
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church is dedicated to
St Mary
Mary; arc, ܡܪܝܡ, translit=Mariam; ar, مريم, translit=Maryam; grc, Μαρία, translit=María; la, Maria; cop, Ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ, translit=Maria was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of ...
. It was entirely rebuilt by James Fowler in 1863, in
Early English style with
chancel,
nave, south
porch, and western
tower with a
broach spire
A broach spire is a type of spire (tall pyramidal structure), which usually sits atop a tower or turret of a church. It starts on a square base and is carried up to a tapering octagonal spire by means of triangular faces.
File:Leicester Cathedral ...
containing three bells originally cast in 1608.
Pevsner, Nikolaus
Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, ''The Buildings of England'' (19 ...
; Harris, John; ''The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire'' p. 238; Penguin, (1964); revised by Nicholas Antram (1989), Yale University Press.
References
External links
*
"Fotherby"
Genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 5 November 2011
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Villages in Lincolnshire
Civil parishes in Lincolnshire
East Lindsey District