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What's new   March 2023 When the Charnwood slates web page was first uploaded I suggested that the profits from selling slate in Grantham might have been used to buy pig iron or even worked iron artefacts to sell in Boston and Kings Lynn. I was invited by the Grantham Family History Society to talk about this topic this month. In the audience was John Manterfield, a noted local historian for the Grantham area. He corrected my suggestion of iron being transported from Grantham to the east coast. Instead he strongly suspects that what was being bought in Grantham and needed in places further east was malt for brewing beer. Grateful thanks to John for his suggestion about malt. The Charnwood slates web page has been updated accordingly.   February 2023 I've uploaded a video about Barrowby, Sedgebrook, Allington, Syston, Barkston, Wilsford, Sapperton, Ingoldsby, Bassingthorpe and Burton Coggles, specifically looking at the relationship between Church and Manor around the eleventh century.   January 2023 I've created a YouTube video about the Winnibriggs and Threo Wapentake meeting places.   July 2022 Thanks to Mr and Mrs Lambley I now have lots more information about the Three Queens Inn. So I've created a separate web page. I've created a 35 minute YouTube video about Charnwood slate gravestones and eighteenth century trade routes along the Salter's Way and through Grantham.   June 2022 I've read and partly digested Alexis Tudor Skinner's PhD thesis on hundred and wapentake meeting sites in Yorkshire (thanks to Mike Deakin for bringing this to my attention). As a result there's brief updates to the Winnibrigg and Threo and Kesteven pages. Matt Pennifold emailed to say I'd got the route of the Salt Way east of Croxton Kerrial wrong. This has resulted in changes to both the Charnwood slates and Sewstern Lane pages. It makes the site of the Three Queens Inn even more intriguing! Thanks Matt.   May 2022 My stay in Barrowby was much shorter than expected. I've now moved to Orston, ten miles to the west. However Barrowby's past continues to intrigue me and I hope to add more insights and photographs. I am still researching the ironstone quarries, although mostly around Harston and Woolsthorpe rather than in parishes immediately adjoining Barrowby. Even though I've moved I'm still entirely happy to add other folks' research to this site – just email bobtrubs@indigogroup.co.uk. For example I've added an update to the Winnibrigg and Threo page using information kindly sent to me by Mike Deakin.   March 2022 I've added some thoughts about the Parish Well. And also some thoughts about the enigmatic parish boundary earthwork.   February 2022 A two-hour conversation with Nigel Jones resulted in my understanding of Barrowby in the prehistoric and Roman periods being significantly revised. See summary of prehistoric Barrowby and summary of Roman Barrowby (confusingly these are both on the same web page). Nigel also inspired me to investigate the curious name of the administrative hundred: Winnibriggs and Threo. These insights led me to revise my earlier thoughts about the etymology of Steven(s) Gutter a.k.a. the village green.   January 2022 Julia Miller kindly drew my attention to eight guided walks in and around Barrowby. These can be found as PDFs on the Parish Council website at barrowbyparishcouncil.org.uk/parish-walks The two shorter walks focus on places of historic interest in Barrowby itself. Barrowby Until Now This website was intially launched without a name. Simply because I couldn't think of something appropriate. I'm not sure that 'Barrowby Until Now' is all that good and it may get changed. 'Barrowby Until Now' does neatly straddle all the sub-divisions of looking at the past – local history, archaeology, family history (not that there's much of that, at least yet), oral history (ditto), landscape history, landscape archaeology, place-name studies, geology and whatever else I've missed out. It also neatly avoids such ever-more muddied terms as 'heritage' and 'nostalgia'. Oh yes, and it makes the acronym BUN – making anyone who helps with this site a 'bunny'…   December 2021 Google's search engine finally discovered the site so the 'search this site' function now works. Which means I can begin to promote its existence.   November 2021 It's all new…       This website does not gather or store any visitor information. Copyright Bob Trubshaw 2021–2022 No unauthorised copying or reproduction except if all following conditions apply: a: Copy is complete (including this copyright statement). b: No changes are made. c: No charge is made. www.hoap.co.uk/barrowby

what's new? Articles about Barrowby Barrowby's location and geology summary of prehistoric Barrowby summary of Roman Barrowby Anglo-Saxons summary of Anglo-Saxon Barrowby place-names Winnibriggs and Threo Domesday Book eleventh century water mills Kesteven moot site Medieval summary of medieval Barrowby origins of All Saints church moated sites the decline of Casthorpe Newbo Abbey Barrowby's Rectory the Conduit to Grantham Sewstern Lane or The Drift Seventeenth and eighteenth centuries summary of early modern Barrowby Dr Thomas Hurst Sir John Thorold John Manners, the Marquess of Granby Charnwood slates the toll bar Enclosure of Barrowby 1762 village green a.k.a. Stevens Gutter Grantham Canal Nineteenth century summary of nineteenth century Barrowby restoration of the parish church schools Methodist chapels Reading Room windmills pinfold Richard Hornsby nineteenth and twentieth century population Twentieth century summary of twentieth century Barrowby ironstone quarrying two World Wars Memorial Hall Barrowby's Listed buildings Barrowby's modern housing guided walks in and around Barrowby there's more could be said... bibliography index of surnames in Cryer 1979 Articles and web links for nearby places rare seventeenth fonts at Muston, Bottesford and Orston from Project Gargoyle Newsletter 2020 Ironstone quarries of Leicestershire YouTube video Wyville's wells Harston's Anglo-Saxon carvings Bottesford's effigies Grantham Canal Society The Grantham Canal All you need to know – and more – from Wikipedia Croxton Kerrial manor house excavations photos and brief details from Leicester Mercury. By 2021 the remains had been consolidated and there are annual open days. Grantham Archaeology Group Bottesford History Group Grantham Civic Society Grantham Museum Heritage Lincolnshire