Graizelound is a hamlet in the

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, England. It is approximately to the north-west from the city and

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, and centred on the crossroad junction of Haxey Lane, Station Road, Akeferry Road and Ferry Road. The village of Haxey is less than to the north.

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on the

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is to the north-east. Graizelound forms part of the

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. According to ''A Dictionary of British Place Names'', the 'lound' in Graizelound derives from the Old Scandinavian 'lundr' for "a small wood or grove". Graizelound is recorded in the 1086 ''

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'' as "Lund", being a name for both the later

East Lound East Lound is a hamlet in the civil parish of Haxey in North Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately to the north-west from the city and county town of Lincoln, and on Brackenhill Road within the parish of Haxey, a village ...

and Graizelound, in the

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of Epworth and the

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. The settlement contained ten households, four villagers, four freemen, two tributaries, 0.6 ploughlands, 3.5 men's plough teams, and a fishery. The

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in 1066 were Alnoth and Ulf Fenman. Following ''Domesday'', lordship was given to Geoffrey de La Guerche who was also

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to King

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Graizelound is recorded in the 1872 '' White's Directory'' as a hamlet of Haxey parish with a list of occupations and residents that included thirty farmers, two of whom were also shopkeepers, a

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, a

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, a shoemaker, and an occupant of a day school. At Cumberworth Lodge lived Thomas Wharton Emerson, and at Sobraon Lodge, Captain William Henry Emerson, who were brothers, and nephews to

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. Cumberworth Lodge on Ferry Road (Main Street), is today a care home, and is a Grade II

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rendered brick building that dates to the mid-18th-century. Further Grade II listed buildings are the 18th-century red brick Lound House on Main Street, and on Graizelound Fields Roads, Manor House, of brown brick built in 1791, and the early 19th-century red brick Croft House.

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"Haxey"
includes Graizelound. The Isle of Axholme Family History Society. Retrieved 9 January 2019

Isleofaxholme.co.uk, includes Graizelound. Retrieved 9 January 2019 {{Authority control Hamlets in Lincolnshire Borough of North Lincolnshire