More information : TF 053870 The field name Grange Close, and adjacent or nearby fields named Grange Plots (TF 054873), Grange Meadow (TF 055871) and Grange Closes (TF 057866) in 1813 may indicate the site of a monastic grange. St Katherine's Priory without Lincoln had a grange at Newton, granted after the Dissolution to John Broxholme and John Bellowe. Earthworks at Grange Close are recorded on APs (a) and may have survived the bulldozing of the village earthworks in 1964, but have not been investigated. (1)
Settlement features attributed to the Medieval grange by authority 1, were visible as earthworks and mapped from good quality air photographs. Centred at TF 0525 8704 are a group of crofts, 110m by 40m. They contain building platforms at TF 0518 8705 and
TF 0512 8706, ponds at TF 0513 8708 and TF 0534 8710, and an embanked stack stand at TF 0510 8700.
North and west of this area are remains of the Medieval and Post Medieval village of Newton by Toft, recorded in TF 08 NE 12. There is no clear boundary division between these two areas of settlement or distinction in the form of their features. (Morph No. LI.498.4.3,5,6)
This description is based on data is from the RCHME MORPH2 data base.
(2) |