Last) is now kept in Wansford: the font from Sibberton Church.
One last feature of the village (I’ve saved the best for Related to the inhabitants of Sibberton as they worked the land around the Out which identified a number of early medieval features including evidence of metalworking,ĭitches, pottery, and animal bones. Prior to quarrying, a number of assessments were carried Quarries, stripping away the land that the medieval inhabitants of Sibberton South of the deserted village site and A47 are enormous Of Sibberton in 1685 had the potential to reveal a great deal about the houseĪnd lands, but unfortunately the will makes no specific mention of Sibberton, referring Specifically to Sibberton Lodge, with John Bullock ‘Farmer, grazier and flourĭealer’ taking out insurance for the lodge in 1792. There are also records in The National Archives relating Homes of Sibberton are sitting amongst the boxes in Bedfordshire Archives, The records are part of the Russell familyĪrchives and it is possible that more information about the inhabitants and Nearby Thornhaugh Manor, which was also known as the manor of Thornhaugh, The clerk John le Garlickmonger! By far the largest number of records relate to Sybirton) in 1338 was Thomas de Overton who was present at a debt hearing with And we learn that the rector of Sibberton Church (written Stephen de Siberton (sic), son of Henry Wynter of SibbertonĪppears in a dispute with the Prior and convent of Fineshade somewhere betweenġ1. Sheds a little more light on Sibberton, with the names of a few inhabitants jumping Which would explain its survival when the rest of the village decayed.Īn online search of the records at The National Archives That the chapel was in private hands rather than a site of communal worship, The evidence of a chapel and church so very close together suggests Lidar images suggest the locationĬontains a lot of buried features, some of which can be seen on aerial images Indicate evidence of a church and coffin have been found there, as well asĮarthworks including an infilled moat. Lodge in fields that are currently used for grazing. The core of the village was located north of Sibberton On the site and the 13 th century building was in continuous use eitherĪs a chapel or domestic building before being subsumed into the new build. It’s very possible that the 17 th century lodge replaced an earlier building Happened to the chapel between the 14 th and 17 th centuries? The 17 thĬentury addition features a datestone of 1657, which does beg the question what Peterborough, if you haven’t read my previous post). To have once been a chapel (and potentially the oldest domestic building in Lodge, a large 17th century house with a 13 th century wing purported The only remaining fragment of the village is Sibberton Proportion of the population and created many deserted medieval villages around The village was supposedly desertedįollowing the great plague in the 14 th century which killed a large It was located just north of what is now the A47, northwest of Remains of the village now, but the first written reference to the village was Soke of Peterborough, Sibberton was once a thriving medieval village.
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