Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology

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DOING A PARISH HISTORY

A GUIDE TO LOCAL BOOKS AND OTHER SOURCES

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8. Monastic houses and their influence

A considerable proportion of Lincolnshire was subject to the influence of monastic houses, not just through the building of the monasteries themselves, but also because of the many granges (outlying farms) and many other properties that belonged to monastic orders.

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See List 1b for vols. V-VI of the History of Lincolnshire; List 2 for Bennett and Bennett (map 24) and Listed Building Notes; List 4 for Everson et. al., Loughlin and Miller, and the Sites and Monuments Records.

D. R. Mills The Knights Templar in Kesteven Sleaford, n.d., c. 1994; revised edn, edited by Penny Ward, Heritage Lincolnshire, Heckington, 2009. The Templars were very powerful in Lincolnshire, especially in Kesteven. This booklet includes a gazetteer of their Kesteven properties.
W. Page, ed. Victoria History of the County of Lincoln, vol. II (only volume published, London, 1906) contains separate accounts of each monastic house in the county. Still extremely useful, despite its date of publication, but from the point of view of the parish historian one needs to know or suspect which house had property in the parish, since the book is not indexed.

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