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Throckenholt
Throckenholt shown within Lincolnshire |
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| OS grid reference | TF354094 |
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| Parish | Sutton St Edmund |
| District | South Holland |
| Shire county | Lincolnshire |
| Region | East Midlands |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Postcode district | PE12 0 |
| Police | Lincolnshire |
| Fire | Lincolnshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| EU Parliament | East Midlands |
| UK Parliament | South Holland and the Deepings |
| List of places: UK • England • Lincolnshire | |
Throckenholt is a village in the civil parish of Sutton St Edmund in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. It is located close to the boarder of Cambridgeshire about 16 miles (26 km) south-east of Spalding, 14 miles (23 km) west of Wisbech and 10 miles (16 km) south of Holbeach.
Throckenholt Priory was sited here, it was a hermitage and chapel in existence from at least 1107-1540. It was granted to Thorney Abbey by Nigel, Bishop of Ely.[1]
Throckenholt is a farm and cluster of houses on the Lincolnshire border about a mile north-west of Parson Drove village. It was known by the name 'Everedwic' when a hermit called Godric settled there in the years around 1100 and established his hermitage. After his death, about the year 1140, his family and friends looked after it for a while, before Bishop Nigel of Ely (d. 1169) granted it to the monks of Thorney Abbey, for use as a priory and as a cemetery. An account of Godric's Life, written in Latin in the twelfth century, has been edited and translated by Dr Tom Licence, as 'The Life and Miracles of Godric of Throckenholt', in the journal Analecta Bollandiana, 124 (2006), at pages 15-43. By the 1150s the place had come to be known as 'Throckenholt'. The name signifies a woody hollow where timber was obtained. Bishop Nigel granted a square mile of marsh there to Thorney Abbey, a grant later confirmed by Bishop Longchamp (1189–97) and by Edward III in 1348. The hermitage survived in some form and was used by the monks of Thorney as a dependent priory of their monastery. Its chapel survived until c. 1540, when it is shown on a map of Wisbech hundred. This chapel was where Throckenholt farm house now stands; fragments of stone, bones, and other relics have from time to time been uncovered on the site. The eastern and southern boundaries of the site are heavily wooded, and in 1274 and later Throckenholt was claimed by both Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire.
In 1792 the farm belonged to Abraham Ulyat, who built the present house in 1806. John and Henry Ulyat are recorded as farmers in Parson Drove in 1851. Throckenholt Farm contained 209 a. 2r. 31 p., and subsequently belonged to John Goodman. In the middle of the 19th century Throckenholt was described as a 'wide bleak fen, productive indeed, but with no other recommendation to a civilized being.'