Aby with Greenfield explained

Aby with Greenfield is a civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 Census was 196.^[1] It consists of the villages of Aby and Greenfield.^[2] The parish is situated approximately 7miles south-east from Louth.

Greenfield

Greenfield was a hamlet^[3] and chapelry, with a church dedicated to Saint Mary. According to a field investigator's report from 1964: "There are no surface indications of desertion - other than the Priory - nor is there local knowledge or tradition of a village and church".^[4]

Greenfield Priory was a Cistercian nunnery founded before 1153 and suppressed in 1536.^[5]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Civil Parish population 2011. 23 August 2015.
2. Web site: Aby with Greenfield . . . 3 August 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120609144913/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10393681 . 9 June 2012 .
3. Web site: Aby. A Vision of Britain through Time. University of Portsmouth. 3 August 2011.
4. 355559. Greenfield. 3 August 2011.
5. 355526. Greenfield Priory. 3 August 2011.