Osgodby, Lincolnshire

There is an unrelated hamlet of Osgodby in the parish of Lenton, Keisby and Osgodby, South Kesteven
Osgodby

Osgodby
Osgodby
 Osgodby shown within Lincolnshire
Population 646 (2001)
OS grid referenceTF072926
   – London 130 mi (210 km)  S
DistrictWest Lindsey
Shire countyLincolnshire
RegionEast Midlands
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town Market Rasen
Postcode district LN8
Police Lincolnshire
Fire Lincolnshire
Ambulance East Midlands
EU Parliament East Midlands
UK ParliamentGainsborough
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Coordinates: 53°25′13″N 0°23′18″W / 53.420172°N 0.388325°W

Osgodby is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.

Osgodby is close to the A1103 and A46 roads, and 3 miles (5 km) north-west from the market town of Market Rasen. The parish contains the small villages of Kingerby, Kirkby cum Osgodby, Osgodby itself, Usselby, and the hamlet of Bishopbridge.[1] To the north is North Owersby. Nearby to the west is the north-south River Ancholme. The population of the parish is 646.

History

At the time of Domesday Book the village consisted of 41 households.[2]

There are medieval settlement remains, including a moat, visible as earthworks and thought to be part of Tournay Manor which was established during the 14th century. In 1424 John Tournay was given as a gift land on the south side of Osgodby, but the principal residence of the family was at Caenby.[3] During the Second World War there was an army camp at Osgodby, and 60 accommodation huts were dispersed within nearby woodland. One building remains at the junction of the A46 - A1103, function unknown, and where the woods border the A1103, Westwards from the A46, many of the foundations are still visible. [4]

Community

The village public house is the Crown Inn on Main Street.

Bishopbridge

The River Ancholme and The Bell at Bishopbridge

Bishopbridge is a hamlet at the western limit of the parish of Osgodby, on the A631 and is named after the bridge that crosses the River Ancholme at this point. The hamlet consists of a public house and a few farms and houses.[5]

The settlement marks the upper limit of the navigation of the Ancholme, which was created by an Act of Parliament in 1767, which records the location as Bishop Brigys, in a later Act of 1802 it has changed to Bishop Briggs.[6]

The navigation ends where there is a measurement weir at the gauging station that records the flow of the river. On the adjacent River Rase, another weir and gauging station measures the flow of that river. Both sites are listed as Bishopbridge.[7][8]

References

  1. ↑ "Kirkby cum Osgodby parish council". Parish Councils. Lincolnshire county council. Retrieved 2 November 2013. The administrative civil parish of Osgodby is made up of four villages – Kirkby, Osgodby, Kingerby and Usselby.
  2. ↑ "Osgodby". Domesday Map. Anna Powell-Smith/University of Hull. Retrieved 6 July 2011.
  3. ↑ Historic England. "Osgodby DMV (89243 )". PastScape. Retrieved 6 July 2011.
  4. ↑ Historic England. "Osgodby army camp (1470543 )". PastScape. Retrieved 6 July 2011.
  5. ↑ "Get-a-map online". Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 26 March 2013.
  6. ↑ Priestley, Joseph (1831). Historical account of the navigable rivers, canals, and railways, throughout Great Britain (REPRINT). Jim Shead. pp. 20–23. Retrieved 31 May 2013.
  7. ↑ "29004-Ancholme at Bishopbridge". The National River Flow Archive. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
  8. ↑ "29005-Rase at Bishopbridge". The National River Flow Archive. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. Retrieved 24 May 2013.

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