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Sketches, Illustrative of the Topography and History of New and Old Sleaford, in the County of Lincoln, and of Several Places in the
Sketches Illustrative of the Topography and History of New and Old Sleaford in the County of Lincoln and of Several Places in the Author:James Creasey Title: Sketches, Illustrative of the Topography and History of New and Old Sleaford, in the County of Lincoln, and of Several Places in the Surrounding Neighbourhood ... General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1825 Original Publisher: J. Creasey Subjects: Sleaford (England) Sleaford, Eng Notes: This is a black and... more » white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: NEW SLEAFORD. ETYMOLOGY OF THE NAME, AND PROBABLE ! ANTIQUITY OF THE TOWN. Previously to entering upon a topographical sketch of this place, -- for it must be borne in mind that it is only a sketch that is intended to be given of this town and its adjacent villages; correct indeed as far as it extends, but by no means professing to be a finished history, -- it may be proper to notice the names by which Sleaford has been designated in the earliest records, and also to suggest, what appears to us to be the etymology thereof, and its true orthography. In Domesday Book, written by order of William the Conqueror, iu the year (as Stow in his Chronicle tells us) 1080, it is called Eslafurde. In Testa de Nevill, written about the year 1270, Laffbrd. By Leland, who wrote about the year 1546, and ever since his time, Sleford or Sleaford. Before we proceed further let us notice the singular circumstimce, that at the distance of nearly eight hundred years from the Domesday record, the only change in the name of this place, with the exception of the final e, which was common to most nouns, has been in the transposition of one letter; e being now placed after the letters 'S7, instead of before them, viz. Sleaford instead of Eslaforde. With respect to the name Laffbrd, given to Sleaford in Testa de Nevill, it may be remarked that this history, relating chiefly to Feudal Ten...« less