Lenton

Other current and historical names

Lavington
Lavintone

Parish/Community: Lenton Keisby and Osgodby
District/Borough: South Kesteven
County: Lincolnshire
Region: East Midlands

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°51'39"N 0°28'42"W
Eastings/Northings: 502540, 330354
OS Grid: TF025303
Mapcode Local: GBR FS7.RVM
Mapcode Global: WHGKY.MCD3

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Lenton within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Lenton in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Lavington (or Lenton), par., township, and vil., Lincolnshire, 4 miles SW. of Falkingham - par., 4913 ac., pop. 301; township, pop. 178.

Lenton in the Domesday Book

A village in Beltisloe hundred, in the county of Lincolnshire.

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Ulf Fenman
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Archbishop of York
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Ranulf the cleric (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 4 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £4 in 1066; £3 in 1086
- Households: 12 villagers; 4 smallholders; 1 freeman
- Plough Teams: 2 lord's ploughs; 6 men's ploughs (5 plough lands)
- Meadow: 36 acres
- Woodland: 110 acres
- Pasture: 2 mixed measures

British Place Names

Lenton, Lincolnshire

Lenton is a village in Lincolnshire

Lenton in historic gazetteers

Lenton in the Domesday Book