OS Grid Reference: 52°44'N 0°17'W
Name Origin: Old English deoping deep fen.
LAND OF ALFRED OF LINCOLN
In ESTDEPINGE 4 bovates of land taxable. Land for ½ plough. A jurisdiction of this manor. 6 villagers and 2 smallholders have 1½ ploughs and meadow, 20 acres; 1 fishery, 5d.
LAND OF GODFREY OF CAMBRAI
In WEST DEPING Atsurr had 2½ carucates of land taxable. Land for as many ploughs. Ælmer has as much land, 2½ carucates taxable. Land for as many ploughs. Godfrey of Cambrai has 10 villagers who have 3 ploughs. 4 mills, 40s; meadow, 100 acres; underwood, 8 acres. Value before 1066 £8; now 6. Exactions 10s.
In EST DEPINGE Ælmer, Arnbjorn and Frithgestr had 3 carucates of land and 6 bovates taxable. Land for as many ploughs and oxen. Two of Godfrey's men have 2 ploughs. 19 villagers and 4 smallholders who have 7 ploughs. Meadow, 93 acres. Value before 1066 and now, 100s. Exactions 35s.
There also St Peter's of Peterborough had jurisdiction over 5 manors [the latin is here abbreviated to the point of confusion. Some translators have preferred "... had 5 sokemen upon 5 manors"] of 2 carucates of land and 6 bovates taxable. Land for as many ploughs and oxen. Two of Godfrey's men have 1½ ploughs. 12 villagers with 3½ ploughs. 1 fishery, 12d; meadow, 70 acres. Value before 1066, 60s; now 50. Exactions 12s.
In Helpringham Atsurr had 1 church in which lie 4 bovates of land and 4 acres of meadow. Godfrey has it; it lies in DEPINGE.
CLAIMS IN KESTEVEN
Ness Wapentake and the whole Riding have testified that the land of Wulfgeat and his mother Wulfflaed was not Arnbjorn's, his sororius [which may mean "sister's husband", "wife's brother", or "sister's son"], and that he only had it in charge until Wulfgeat could hold the land: that is 7 carucates in Uffington, 6½ carucates in Tallington, 6 bovates in Casewick, and 4 bovates ½ carucate — in ESTDEPING.
The Liber Niger of Peterborough Abbey:
In Deeping 1 carucate and land for 3 oxen in jurisdiction from the land of Bole. In the land of Leofwine of Deeping there is as much in jurisdiction. Godfrey of Cambrai holds it.
[Leofwine of Deeping and Bole are perhaps Godfrey's two men referred to above. The land returned to Peterborough ownership shortly thereafter, for later sources record the establishment of Market Deeping on Peterborough land here.]
A Topographical Dictionary of England, Samuel Lewis, 1831:
DEEPING-FEN, an extra-parochial liberty, in the wapentake of ELLOE, parts of HOLLAND, county of LINCOLN, 6 miles (S.W.) from Spalding, containing 398 inhabitants. This extensive district was enclosed from part of the waste land formerly belonging to several parishes, and is partly held by adventurers, for draining, and partly by persons who are free from drainage expenses by the nature of their tenures; all the land is exempt from the land tax, and from ecclesiastical and all other assessments.
The district of Deeping Fen includes the villages of Deeping St James, Deeping St Nicholas, Market Deeping, and West Deeping.
The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, ed J.H.F.Brabner, 1895:
Deeping St James or East Deeping, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, on the river Welland, at the boundary with Northamptonshire, with a station 2 miles E from the village on the East Lincoln branch of the G.N. R., and 1 mile E of Market Deeping, and a post and money order office under Market Deeping; telegraph office, Market Deeping. Acreage, 4293; population, 1501. A Benedictine priory was founded here in 1139 by Baldwin Wake, was given to Thorney Abbey, and passed at the Dissolution to the Norfolks. The manor house is now one of the residences of Lord Burghley. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £220 with residence. The church is of the time of Henry III., and has a lofty tower and octangular spire. There are Roman Catholic, Free Methodist, Particular Baptist, and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Deeping St Nicholas or Littleworth, a village and a parish, originally formed in 1846, and reformed under Act 19 & 20 Viet, c. 65 in 1856, in Lincolnshire. The village stands in the Fen, 5 miles SW from Spalding, and has a station called Littleworth on the East Lincolnshire branch of the G.N.R. It has a post office under Spalding; money order office, Spalding; telegraph office, Littleworth railway station. The area of the parish is 15,033 acres, being nearly the whole of Deeping Fen, now well drained and highly cultivated land; population, 1325. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £200 with residence. The church, erected in 1845, is a building of stone in a modern style of Florid Gothic. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Deeping, West, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, on the river Welland and the Tallington Canal, at the boundary with Northamptonshire, 1 mile ENE of Tallington station on the G.N.R., and 2½ miles WSW of Market Deeping, with a post office under Market Deeping; telegraph office, Tallington station. Acreage, 1296; population, 265. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; gross yearly value, £400. Patron,- the Lord Chancellor. The church is ancient, and has a tower with lofty spire.
Market Deeping, a small town and a parish in Lincolnshire, situated on the river Welland, 3 miles E from Tailington station on the G.N.R. main line, 7 S from Bourn, and 9 N from Peterborough. The town is an ancient place, and according to an old chronicle, was embanked after the Conquest "out of the very pits and bogs, thereby making a garden of pleasure." It has a head post office, a town-hall (now disused), a brewery, a corn mill, and an essential oil distillery. The market has long been obsolete. Annual fairs used to be held on 10 Oct., the second Wednesday after old May-day, and the last Wednesday in July. These have also fallen into disuse, but statute fairs are still held occasionally in May. The church, dedicated to St Guthlac, is an ancient building of stone in the Early English and Perpendicular styles. It has an Early English porch with a Transition doorway having 13th-century ironwork on the door and an Early English arcade, the remainder of the building being chiefly Perpendicular. The rectory is an interesting house, a portion of which undoubtedly belongs to the 14th century. It contains a magnificent oak roof, which is supported on corbels of a bold and quaint design. Two square-headed windows filled with exquisite tracery still remain. Tradition affirms that the house was formerly connected with the abbey at Crowland, but of this fact there is no proof. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £440 with residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor. There are Congregational, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels. There are also almshouses for six poor women, an endowed school, and some small charities. Area of the parish, 1548 acres; population, 1079. The parish council, under the Local Government Act, 1804, consists of nine members.
Associated Family: Leahair
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