Threekingham

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Threekingham (sometimes Threckingham) is a village in mid-Lincolnshire, on the A52 Grantham to Boston road, near Sleaford, close to the A15 roundabout.

[edit] Geography

Close to the north is Spanby. It is in the district of North Kesteven.

[edit] History

Dominated by its church, St Peter ad Vincula (St Peter in chains), the small village of Threekingham lies seven miles south of Sleaford. Folklore suggests that the village was originally called Laundon, but this was changed after the bloody battle fought near Threekingham, in either 869 or 870, between the Saxons (led by the earls Algar, Morcar and Leofric) and the invading Danes (during which three Danish kings and many of their followers were slain). What is more likely, however, is that the original settlement or ham was created more than 1300 years ago when the Saxon 'Trincinghas' tribe came to the area near to the crossroads of the Roman road (Mareham Lane) which was built as an offshoot of the Ermine Street to help defend the Car Dyke (6 km to the east of the village), and the more ancient Salters Way that joined the salt mines at Droitwich in the West Midlands to the Wash. There is a Whalebone Arch. The village pub is coincidentally called the Three Kings Inn