Glentham 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 district of

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. It is situated on the A631, west from Market Rasen, and east from Caenby Corner and the A15. The village includes the hamlet of Caenby.

Etymology

The Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names gives the derivation of the name Glentham as glente + hām, meaning either 'homestead frequented by birds of prey' or 'homestead at a lookout place'. Caenby is said to probably mean 'farmstead or village of a man called Cāfna or Kafni'.

Domesday Book

Glentham was mentioned in the

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, as being in the Aslacoe hundred in the West Riding of

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. It had a total population of 64 households (very large for the time) with tax assessment of 8 geld units (again very large). Land in Glentham was held by four separate lords before the

Norman conquest The Norman Conquest (or the Conquest) was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army made up of thousands of Norman, Breton, Flemish, and French troops, all led by the Duke of Normandy, later styled William the Conque ...

and three afterwards: Lord in 1066: Lincoln St Mary, bishop of. Lord in 1086: Lincoln St Mary, bishop of. Tenant-in-chief in 1086: Lincoln St Mary, bishop of. Lord in 1066: Thorgisl. Lord in 1086: Rainfrid. Tenant-in-chief in 1086: Ivo Tallboys. Lords in 1066: Estan of Farningham; Wulfmer. Lord in 1086: Wadard of Cogges. Tenant-in-chief in 1086: Bishop Odo of Bayeux.

Religious Buildings

Glentham

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listed

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church is dedicated to

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and

St Paul Paul; grc, Παῦλος, translit=Paulos; cop, ⲡⲁⲩⲗⲟⲥ; hbo, פאולוס השליח (previously called Saul of Tarsus;; ar, بولس الطرسوسي; grc, Σαῦλος Ταρσεύς, Saũlos Tarseús; tr, Tarsuslu Pavlus; ...

. Originating in the 13th century, it has had additions and changes up to the 20th. It is mainly

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in style.Cox, J. Charles (1916) ''Lincolnshire'' pp. 136, 137; Methuen & Co. Ltd ''Pevsner'' dates the tower from 1756, and a

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window by Christopher Whall from 1915.

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; Harris, John; ''The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire'' p. 248; Penguin, (1964); revised by Nicholas Antram in 1989, Yale University Press. In the

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and the north

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are monuments and

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es to the Tourney family of Cavenby. Set within a

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over the south porch is an image of Pieta holding the dead Christ. At the west of the church is a mutilated 14th-century brass effigy of a female; previously known as "Molly Grime", it was, up to 1832, washed every

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by seven old maids. In 1885 '' Kelly's Directory'' recorded both a

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and

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chapel, and a nearby

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. At that time much land in the area was given over to

pasture Pasture (from the Latin ''pastus'', past participle of ''pascere'', "to feed") is land used for grazing. Pasture lands in the narrow sense are enclosed tracts of farmland, grazed by domesticated livestock, such as horses, cattle, sheep, or swine ...

, while main crops grown were wheat, barley and beans.''Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull'' 1885, p. 415 The ecclesiastical parish is part of the Owmby Group of parishes.

Amenities

Glentham has a

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, The Crown Inn, a shop, a garden centre (with associated business units) and a village hall.

Other

The village gave its name to a Ham class minesweeper, HMS Glentham.
Genuk site. Retrieved 15 March 2015

References

External links

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"Glentham"
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