Throckenholt
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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 (25.7 km) south-east of Spalding
, 14 miles (22.5 km) west of Wisbech
and 10 miles (16.1 km) south of Holbeach
.
and chapel in existence from at least 1107-1540. It was granted to Thorney Abbey
by Nigel, Bishop of Ely
.
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.'
Civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation and, where they are found, the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties...
of Sutton St Edmund
Sutton St Edmund
Sutton St Edmunds is a village and civil parish in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England, about south east of the town of Spalding....
in the South Holland
South Holland
South Holland is a province situated on the North Sea in the western part of the Netherlands. The provincial capital is The Hague and its largest city is Rotterdam.South Holland is one of the most densely populated and industrialised areas in the world...
district of Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...
, England. It is located close to the boarder of Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire is a county in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the northeast, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west...
about 16 miles (25.7 km) south-east of Spalding
Spalding, Lincolnshire
Spalding is a market town with a population of 30,000 on the River Welland in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. Little London is a hamlet directly south of Spalding on the B1172 road....
, 14 miles (22.5 km) west of Wisbech
Wisbech
Wisbech is a market town, inland port and civil parish with a population of 20,200 in the Fens of Cambridgeshire. The tidal River Nene runs through the centre of the town and is spanned by two bridges...
and 10 miles (16.1 km) south of Holbeach
Holbeach
Holbeach is a fenland market town with in the South Holland district of southern Lincolnshire, England. The town lies from Spalding; from Boston; from King's Lynn; from Peterborough; and a by road from the county town of Lincoln. It is on the junction of the A151 and A17...
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Throckenholt Priory
Throckenholt Priory was sited here, it was a hermitageHermitage
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and chapel in existence from at least 1107-1540. It was granted to Thorney Abbey
Thorney Abbey
Thorney Abbey was on the island of Thorney in The Fens of Cambridgeshire, England.- History :The earliest documentary sources refer to a mid-7th century hermitage destroyed by a Viking incursion in the late 9th century. A Benedictine monastery was founded in the 970s, and a huge rebuilding...
by Nigel, Bishop of Ely
Bishop of Ely
The Bishop of Ely is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Ely in the Province of Canterbury. The diocese roughly covers the county of Cambridgeshire , together with a section of north-west Norfolk and has its see in the City of Ely, Cambridgeshire, where the seat is located at the...
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Throckenholt is a farm and cluster of houses on the Lincolnshire border about a mile north-west of Parson Drove
Parson Drove
Parson Drove is a village in the Fens, in Cambridgeshire, England. Located approximately west of Wisbech, the nearest town, the village is named after the central road around which the village developed, formerly a green drove wider than it is now....
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.'