Scrivelsby

The manor of Scrivelsby is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as "Scrivelesbi" and was held in chief from the king. It then comprised 89 households, 16 villagers, 11 smallholders and 30 freemen, with 8.5 ploughlands, a meadow of 5 acre, woodland of 100 acre, a mill and a church. In 1086 the manor was held by Robert Dispensator (Latin) ("Robert the Bursar"). Robert was succeeded by his brother Urse d'Abetot, feudal baron of Salwarpe in Worcestershire. Shortly thereafter the manor was in the possession of Roger Marmion (d.1129), of Tamworth Castle, then in Warwickshire, 1st feudal baron of Tamworth, and lord of Fountenay in Normandy, it is believed due to his having married the daughter and…

Today Scriveslby is a country estate with deer park, still under the Dymoke family, and an event site for country fairs. In May 2012 it was announced that the estate would be part of Horncastle's events for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, with a beacon lit as part of a sequence of National beacons.