Osgodby is a village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

in the

West Lindsey West Lindsey is a local government district in Lincolnshire, England. Its council is based in Gainsborough. History The district was formed on 1 April 1974, from the urban districts of Gainsborough, Market Rasen, along with Caistor Rural Dis ...

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Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-west, Leicestershire ...

, England. The population of the civil parish, including Kingerby, Kirkby and

Usselby Usselby is a hamlet in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is approximately north-west from the town of Market Rasen. Usselby, a former civil parish, is part of Osgodby civil parish. The parish church is dedicated to Saint ...

, and West Rasen in its own civil parish, was 660 at the 2011 census. Osgodby is close to the A1103 and A46 roads, and north-west from the

market town A market town is a settlement most common in Europe that obtained by custom or royal charter, in the Middle Ages, a market right, which allowed it to host a regular market; this distinguished it from a village or city. In Britain, small rural ...

Market Rasen Market Rasen ( ) is a town and civil parish within the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The River Rase runs through it east to west, approximately north-east from Lincoln, east from Gainsborough, 14 miles (23 km) west of Lo ...

. The parish contains the small villages of

Kingerby Kingerby is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Osgodby, in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated north west from the town of Market Rasen. The hamlet of Bishop Bridge lies about to the south-w ...

, Kirkby cum Osgodby, Osgodby itself,

and the hamlet of Bishopbridge. To the north is

North Owersby North Owersby is a village in the civil parish of Owersby in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, and about north from the town of Market Rasen. North Owersby was a separate civil parish from 1866 to 1936. The parish church is ...

. Nearby to the west is the north–south

River Ancholme The River Ancholme is a river in Lincolnshire, England, and a tributary of the Humber. It rises at Ancholme Head, a spring just north of the village of Ingham and immediately west of the Roman Road, Ermine Street. It flows east and then north ...

. The population of the parish is 646.

History

At the time of ''

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'' the village consisted of 41 households. There are medieval settlement remains, including a moat, visible as

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and thought to be part of Tournay Manor which was established during the 14th century. In 1424 John Tournay was given as a gift land on the south side of Osgodby, but the principal residence of the family was at Caenby. During the Second World War there was an army camp at Osgodby, and 60 accommodation huts were dispersed within nearby woodland. One building remains at the junction of the A46 - A1103, function unknown, and where the woods border the A1103, Westwards from the A46, many of the foundations are still visible.

Bishopbridge

Bishopbridge is a hamlet at the western limit of the parish of Osgodby, on the A631 and is named after the bridge that crosses the River Ancholme at this point. The hamlet consists of a public house and a few farms and houses. The settlement marks the upper limit of the navigation of the Ancholme, which was created by an Act of Parliament in 1767, which records the location as Bishop Brigys, in a later Act of 1802 it has changed to Bishop Briggs. The navigation ends where there is a measurement

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at the

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that records the flow of the river. On the adjacent

River Rase The River Rase is 16 mile (25 km) long tributary of the River Ancholme that flows through Lincolnshire, in the east of England. Course The source of the river is a series of springs known as Churn Water Heads, that occur on Bully Hill nor ...

, another weir and gauging station measures the flow of that river. Both sites are listed as Bishopbridge.

References

External links

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Osgodby Parish Council

Osgodby Primary School

"Expressions in Osgodby"

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