Grantham

The local historian Michael Honeybone has "no doubt that the town of Grantham was established during [[Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain|[Anglo-]Saxon]] times"; its name suggests it emerged in the earliest phase of Anglo-Saxon settlement, probably by the 7th century. The town's Saxon-period history is obscure and debated. By contrast, the historian David Roffe has argued that the town and its outlying soke were established in the 1040s or 1050s by Queen Edith and Leofric, Earl of Mercia, to strengthen their hands in the county at the expense of Siward, Earl of Northumbria. They may have also created St Wulfram's Church either as a new place of worship or as one revived from a possible…