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Owmby is a hamlet in the civil parish of Searby cum Owmby, in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated less than south from the A1084 road, north-east from Caistor, south-east from Brigg, and in the Lincolnshire Wolds, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The parish village of Searby is less than 1 mile to the north-east. ==History== According to ''A Dictionary of British Place Names'', Owm could be “a farmstead or a village of a man called Authunn” or Old Scandinavian for “uncultivated land or deserted farm”, and “by”, a “farmstead , village or settlement”.〔Mills, Anthony David (2003); ''A Dictionary of British Place Names'', pp.358, 520, Oxford University Press, revised edition (2011). ISBN 019960908X〕 Owmby is mentioned in the ''Domesday Book'' as " Odenebi", in the Lindsey Hundred, and the Wapentake of Yarborough. It comprised 19 households, 7 villagers, 2 smallholders and 11 freemen, with 5 ploughlands, a meadow of , and a mill. In 1066 the Lord of the Manor was Grimkel. By 1086 a man named William was Lord, and William of Percy was Tenant-in-chief.〔("Owmby" ), Domesdaymap.co.uk. Retrieved 25 June 2012〕〔("Documents Online: Owmby, Lincolnshire" ), Folios: 338v, 347r, 354r, ''Great Domesday Book''; The National Archives. Retrieved 25 June 2012〕 The entry does not indicate the two Williams are the same man.〔http://opendomesday.org/place/TA0704/owmby/〕 Remains of a possible medieval settlement defined by identifiable earthworks of crofts (homesteads with land) lie east from the junction of the road to Searby with Station Lane and Owmby Hill.〔("Owmby" ), ''National Monuments Record'', English Heritage. Retrieved 25 June 2012〕 In 1885 ''Kelly's Directory'' noted five farmers and Owmby Mount,〔''Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull'' 1885, p.618〕 a now Grade II listed c.1840 country house at the north-west edge of the hamlet.〔("Owmby Mount, Searby Cum Owmby" ), ''National Heritage List for England'', English Heritage. Retrieved 25 June 2012〕 Living at Owmby Mount in 1885 was the Caistor Rural Sanitation Authority inspector of nuisances and registrar of births marriages and deaths for Caistor sub-district.〔 A further Owmby listed building is the Grade II Tithe House on Station Lane, a late 18th-century farmhouse with a 20th-century extension.〔("Tithe House, Searby Cum Owmby" ), ''National Heritage List for England'', English Heritage. Retrieved 25 June 2012〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Owmby, Lincolnshire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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