Bigby is a village and
civil parish in the
West Lindsey district of
Lincolnshire, England.
The village is situated about south from the
Humber Bridge, and east from the town of
Brigg. The village lies in the
Lincolnshire Wolds, a designated
Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and close to the administrative border with
North Lincolnshire. The hamlets of Kettleby and Kettleby Thorpe lie within the parish, and that of
Somerby almost immediately to the south.
According to the
2001 census Bigby had a population of 234, increasing to 347 at the 2011 census.
History
The name Bigby comes from an Old Norse personal name 'Bekki' + Old Norse 'býr', meaning "settlement" or "farmstead". Bigby is recorded in the ''
Domesday
Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...
'' account as "Bechebi", with the
Lord of the manor as William son of Nigel.
The local
Anglican
Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of th ...
parish church is a Grade I
listed building dedicated to
All Saints. It dates from the 12th century, with later additions and restorations in 1779 and 1878. On the north side of the
chancel is a large
alabaster tomb to
Sir Robert Tyrwhit of Kettleby hamlet, who died in 1581, and his wife. To the east is a monument to Sir Robert Tyrwhit of Kettleby, who died in 1617, and
Lady Bridget Manners his wife who died in 1604. Bigby is one of four
Thankful Villages in Lincolnshire, because it lost no men in the First World War. There is a war memorial in the parish churchyard in remembrance of a local man and his comrade shot down during the Second World War.
Pingley Farm, or Camp 81, was the site of a Second World War
Prisoner-of-war camp. Purpose-built to house 750 low-risk Italian prisoners, by May 1946 Pingley camp held 984. The camp has been demolished as of January 2009, and the site redeveloped as housing. The area is being developed with ten luxury executive houses. The first was started in July 2010.
Kettleby
The hamlet of Kettleby (sometimes spelled Kettelby) lies about west of Bigby village. The
deserted medieval village
In the United Kingdom, a deserted medieval village (DMV) is a former settlement which was abandoned during the Middle Ages, typically leaving no trace apart from earthworks or cropmarks. If there are fewer than three inhabited houses the convent ...
(DMV) of Kettleby was first recorded in a will of 1066. ''Domesday'' records two manors: Kettleby, whose Lord of the Manor was Ralph, nephew of Geoffrey Alselin, and Kettleby Thorpe, whose Lord was listed only as Gilbert.
[ Thereafter Kettleby merged with Kettleby Thorpe, also a deserted settlement.][ Kettleby Hall was reputedly a moated hunting lodge built in the reign of James I and later the chief seat of the Tyrwhitt family. The last male heir sold-up in 1648 because of debts, and the building was demolished in 1696–97. The present farmhouse on the site dates from the nineteenth century.]
References
External links
"Bigby"
Genuki.org.uk
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Villages in Lincolnshire
Civil parishes in Lincolnshire
West Lindsey District