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DOING A PARISH HISTORY
A GUIDE TO LOCAL BOOKS AND OTHER SOURCES
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9. Farming
Until recent times farming has been the backbone of the Lincolnshire economy, and a village could be defined as the home of the farming population with its attendant tradesmen and craftsmen. Therefore, as with landownership, this subject needs careful attention, including perhaps the reading of some general texts on agricultural history.
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See List 1a for Healey and List 1b for vols. IV, VI-VIII and XII of the History of Lincolnshire; List 2 for Bennett and Bennett (map 26 - lost villages; maps 36, 41, 42, 45, - agriculture); List 5 for Foster and Longley (lost places); List 13 for Russell on cow clubs.
- M. Beresford The Lost Villages of England London, 1954; new edn., Stroud, 1998; along with Foster and Longley provides a list of deserted medieval villages, many of which are located in parishes/townships also containing 'normal' villages.
- Jonathan Brown Farming in Lincolnshire 1850-1945 SLHA, 2005.
- D. B. Grigg The Agricultural Revolution in South Lincolnshire Cambridge, 1966. Relates to Holland and Kesteven.
- H. E. Hallam Settlement and Society: a Study of the Early Agrarian History of South Lincolnshire Cambridge, 1965. Relates to fenland and fenside parishes.
- J. A. Perkins Sheep Farming in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Lincolnshire Sleaford, 1977.
- R. C. Russell The 'Revolt of the Field' in Lincolnshire Lincs. County Committee, National Union of Agricultural Workers, 1956.
- R. C. Russell Three Lincolnshire Labourers' Movements Barton-on-Humber, 1994.
- G. I. Smith The Land of Britain: Report of the Land Utilisation Survey of Britain, Part 69, Lincolnshire: Holland London, 1937.
- L. D. Stamp The Land of Britain: Report of the Land Utilisation Survey of Britain, Parts 76-77, Lincolnshire : Lindsey and Kesteven London, 1942.
- T. Stone General View of the Agriculture of the County of Lincoln 1794.
- A. Straw Lincolnshire Soils Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union, 1969.
- J. Thirsk English Peasant Farming: the agrarian history of Lincolnshire from Tudor to recent times London, 1957.
- D. Tyszka, K. Miller and G. Bryant, eds. Land, People and Landscapes: Essays on the History of the Lincolnshire Region written in Honour of Rex C. Russell Lincoln, 1991. This is cited here because it has a bibliography containing all the work on enclosure awards carried out by Eleanor and Rex Russell. These booklets and articles cover a very large number of Lindsey townships.
- W. H. Wheeler A History of the Fens of South Lincolnshire 1868, enlarged edition 1896, latter reprinted, Stamford, 1990. Is excellently organised for use on a topographical basis and has not been surpassed. Examples of entries are as follows:
Examples of entries from Wheeler's book:
ACRELAND CLOUGH. On the Three Towns' Drain, near Fishmore End, at the junction of the parishes of Wigtoft and Sutterton, p. 86.
HORBLING FEN. In the Eighteenpenny Black Sluice District. Contains 1,344 and a half acres. Inclosed in 1764, p. 274.
KYME VACHERIE. A cow pasture, in North Kyme Fen, formerly attached to the monastery at Kyme.
TYDD GOTE. A hamlet of Tydd St Mary. Half a mile SE from the church. The earliest recorded gote or sluice here was in 1293, the second in 1551, the third and present sluice, called 'Hill's Sluice', or Tyd Gote Bridge in 1632, pp. 102, 133.
- A. Young General View of the County of Lincolnshire 1813, reprinted Newton Abbot, 1970. LCL has an index to this work.
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