Hagworthingham

Hagworthingham

Hagworthingham

Village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England


Hagworthingham is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is on the A158, 5 miles (8 km) east of Horncastle and 4 miles (6 km) north-west of Spilsby.[2] In 2011 the parish had a population of 359.

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The place-name 'Hagworthingham' is attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as "Haberdingham" and "Hacberding(e)ham" according to Ekwall, which states the name means 'the ham [village] of the Hagworth people'.[3] According to Mills, Domesday assigns it "Hacberdingeham", and gives an 1198 reference of "Hagwrthingham", meaning possibly "homestead of the family or followers of a man called Haguweard", from the Old English combination of a person name with 'inga' (denoting ownership) and 'hām' (homestead, village manor or estate).[4]

Road to Holy Trinity Church before the First World War

Hagworthingham church, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, was restored by James Fowler of Louth in 1859.[5]

Thomas Drant, the clergyman and translator of Horace, was born in Hagworthingham.

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References

  1. "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 22 August 2015.
  2. "Hagworthingham Parish Council", lincolnshire.gov.uk. Retrieved 15 August 2011
  3. Ekwall, Eilert, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p. 211.
  4. Mills, Anthony David (2003); A Dictionary of British Place Names, Oxford University Press, revised edition (2011), pp. 219. ISBN 019960908X



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