Hannah cum Hagnaby explained

Static Image Name:St.Andrew's church, Hannah-cum-Hagnaby, Lincs. - geograph.org.uk - 108130.jpg
Static Image Caption:St Andrew's Church, Hannah
Country:England
Official Name:Hannah cum Hagnaby
Label Position:left
Coordinates:53.2879°N 0.2491°W
Shire District:East Lindsey
Shire County:Lincolnshire
Region:East Midlands
Constituency Westminster:Louth and Horncastle
Post Town:Alford
Postcode District:LN13
Postcode Area:LN
Os Grid Reference:TF500791
London Distance Mi:120
London Direction:S

Hannah cum Hagnaby is a civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately 4miles north-east from Alford, and 15miles south-east from Louth[1] The parish contains two small hamlets, Hannah and Hagnaby. Hannah was used in the Bronze Age as there is evidence of a Round Barrow.[2] In antiquity Hannah was known as Hannay.[3] The church, in Hannah, is dedicated to Saint Andrew and is a Grade I listed building, built of greenstone about 1758, with early 19th, and some 20th-century, alterations.[4]

Hagnaby Priory, later Hagnaby Abbey, was in Hagnaby.[5] [6] Pevsner states that a Premonstratensian priory, founded in 1175, stood 0.5miles to the north of the village. Fragments of the priory, including octagonal shafts and window tracery, exist at Hagnaby Abbey Farm 1.25miles to the west.[7] English Heritage has noted the existence of the suppressed priory through evidence of aerial photographs and building debris, and grassed foundations of a later formal garden and post-medieval house.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Hannah. Genuki.0rg.uk. 1 June 2011.
  2. British archaeology
  3. Web site: Vision of Britain. Hannah. University of Portsmouth. 1 June 2011.
  4. Web site: British Listed Buildings. Hannah Cum Hagnaby. English Heritage. 31 May 2011.
  5. Web site: Hagnaby. Victoria County History. 1 June 2011.
  6. Web site: Houses of Premonstratensian canons. Hagnaby. Victoria County History. 31 May 2011.
  7. [Nikolaus Pevsner|Pevsner, Nikolaus]