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Goltho Hall |
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Goltho
Goltho shown within Lincolnshire |
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| OS grid reference | TF 11619 77512 |
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| Parish | Goltho |
| District | West Lindsey |
| Shire county | Lincolnshire |
| Region | East Midlands |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Postcode district | LN8 |
| Police | Lincolnshire |
| Fire | Lincolnshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| EU Parliament | East Midlands |
| UK Parliament | Gainsborough |
| List of places: UK • England • Lincolnshire | |
Goltho is a village of Anglo-Saxon roots situated in Lincolnshire, England. It lies 0.5 miles (0.8 km) south of the A158 and 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Wragby.
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There was a Romano-British settlement at Goltho in the 1st and 2nd centuries.[1]
The origin of the name is uncertain, perhaps from an Old Scandinavian (Viking) first name or the Viking word for "ravine", or as is widely accepted locally, "where the marigolds grow", referred to in Henry Thorold's guide to the redundant St George's Church, Goltho.[2]
The remains of the early medieval village were excavated in the 1970s. A Saxon settlement on the site consisted of two houses; in around 850, the site was fortified with the addition of a banked enclosure, and a hall was added. A motte-and-bailey castle was built at Goltho in around 1080.[1]
Goltho Hall was the ancestral seat of the Grantham family.[3] Sir Thomas Grantham (1574–1630) was Sheriff of Lincoln in 1600[4] and MP for Lincolnshire from 1621 to 1622. He was a shareholder in the Virginia Company[5] and is listed in the Third Virginia Charter of 1612.[6] He was a Puritan[7] and was imprisoned in Lincoln Castle for refusing to pay Ship Money.[8] His son Thomas (1612–1655) was MP for Lincoln during the Long Parliament[9] and raised a regiment of foot which fought at the Battle of Aylesbury[10] in 1642. The hall was eventually sold to the Mainwairing family and demolished in 1812.[11] The present hall was built nearby in 1875.[12]
It is a civil parish about 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Lincoln and 2 miles (3.2 km) southwest of Wragby. Wragby parish lies to the east, Rand parish to the north and Apley parish to the south. It is described in White's 1842 Lincolnshire Directory as 'a parish of scattered farms'. The parish covered about 1,360 acres (5.5 km2) in 1842. Ecclesiastically, the parish was united with Bullington to form one tithe-free parish in the peculier jurisdiction of the Bishop of Lincoln. Together, the two parishes covered about 2,540 acres (10.3 km2). The parish is skirted on the north side by the A158 trunk road as it passes between Lincoln and Horncastle.
Goltho is one of 128 civil parishes in the non-metropolitan district of West Lindsey, Lincolnshire.[13] The district covers 25 wards. The council is composed of 22 Conservative councillors, 14 Liberal Democrats, and 1 Independent.[14]
Goltho is part of the Gainsborough Constituency. As of the 2005 general election, the Member of Parliament is Edward Leigh. At the election, in Gainsborough the Conservatives won a majority of 7,895 and 43.9% of the vote. The Liberal Democrats won 26.4% of the vote, Labour 21.7%, and the United Kingdom Independence Party 4.1%.[15]
There are three listed buildings in Goltho: Goltho Hall and its garden wall and pigeoncote (both Grade II), and the Church of St George (Grade II*).[16] St George's was founded in about 1640, with alterations in the 18th and 19th centuries.[17]