Haugh, Lincolnshire Explained

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Static Image Caption:Haugh
Country:England
Official Name:Haugh
Coordinates:53.2609°N 0.1201°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:TF415758
London Distance Mi:120
London Direction:S

Haugh is a hamlet and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated about 2miles south-west from the town of Alford.[1]

Haugh is listed in the 1086 Domesday Book, with 37 households.[2]

The parish church is dedicated to Saint Leonard and is a Grade I listed building dating from the 11th century, with later additions, and a restoration in 1873. It is built of chalk and greenstone with red-brick patching. The blocked north door is late 12th-century, with both the font and the south door 14th-century. On thesouth wall there is an alabaster wall plaque to Sir Charles Bolle, who died in 1690, and on the north wall a large wall monument to Sir John Bolle, who died in 1606.

Manor Farmhouse is a red-brick Grade II listed country house and former seat of the Bolle family, now a farmhouse dating from the mid-16th century with later additions.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Haugh. Vision of Britain. University of Portsmouth. 29 July 2011.
  2. Web site: Haugh . usurped . https://archive.today/20120724085842/http://www.domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TF4175/haugh/ . 24 July 2012 . 29 July 2011 . Domesday Map . Anna Powell-Smith/University of Hull.