Boothby Pagnell

Village in South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England

Human settlement in England

Boothby Pagnell

Lychgate of St Andrew's Church

Boothby Pagnell

Location within Lincolnshire

OS grid reference| SK971308
• London| 90 mi (140 km) S
District|

* South Kesteven

Shire county|

* Lincolnshire

Region|

* East Midlands

Country| England
Sovereign state| United Kingdom
Post town| Grantham
Postcode district| NG33
Police| Lincolnshire
Fire| Lincolnshire
Ambulance| East Midlands
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52°52′00″N 0°33′29″W﻿ / ﻿52.866770°N 0.558159°W﻿ / 52.866770; -0.558159

Boothby Pagnell is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. The population is now included in the civil parish of Bitchfield and Bassingthorpe.

## History

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The Norman manor house

The village lay in the historical wapentake of Winnibriggs and Threo.[1]

Boothby Pagnell has a Grade I listed[2] surviving fragment of a medieval manor house, in the Norman style, dating from around 1200 AD.[3][4]

The village was a small community, its population in 1086 being just 19. It has archaeological remains at Cooks Close, a field west of the church, which is chiefly of medieval housing that seems to have fallen into disuse and dereliction by the 14th century, possibly as a result of the fall in the workforce in the aftermath of the Black Death.[citation needed]

John de Bothby, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, was born here about 1320 and took his name from the village.

### Isaac Newton

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Although his uncle William Ayscough, the brother of Hannah Ayscough, was vicar of nearby Burton Coggles, during his period of scientific discoveries in 1666–1667, Newton spent some time in the summer at the rectory of Boothby Pagnell, which had a considerable orchard. The vicar was the Trinity College Fellow Humphrey Babington, the brother of Katherine Babington. She was a friend of Hannah Ayscough and the wife of William Clark, the owner of the house at which Newton lodged in Grantham while at school.[citation needed]

In his memoirs, Newton noted that he worked on Fluxions (which became differential calculus) at Babington's rectory and also calculated the area under a hyperbola (involving integral calculus).[5]

## Geography

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The village is just north of Bitchfield and south of Old Somerby on the B1176 and approximately 5 miles (8 km) south-east from Grantham. According to the 2001 Census it had a population of 150. Boothby Pagnell forms the most western point of 'The Ropsley Triangle', which denotes the general area between Ropsley, Boothby Pagnell and Ingoldsby.

## Ecclesiastical parish

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The local authority, and the Ordnance Survey, spell the village "Boothby Pagnell".[6] The Diocese of Lincoln spells the PCC as "Boothby Pagnall".[7]

The ecclesiastical parish is part of the North Beltisloe group in the Deanery of Beltisloe.[7] From 2006 to 2011 the incumbent was Rev. Richard Ireson.[8]

Boothby Pagnell Grade I listed Anglican parish church is dedicated to St Andrew[9] Restored in 1896, it has a Norman tower, font and nave arcades.[10] It also has a canonical sundial on the south wall.

## See also

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* History of calculus

## References

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1. ^ "Winnibriggs and Threo Wap"[permanent dead link‍], A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 16 March 2012
2. ^ Historic England. "Boothby Manor House (1360056)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 30 June 2011.
3. ^ Service, Alastair (1982). Anglo-Saxon and Norman : A guide and Gazetteer. The Buildings of Britain. ISBN 0-09-150130-X.
4. ^ Historic England. "Boothby Hall (325707)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 20 March 2010.
5. ^ "Newton Papers : College Notebook". Cambridge Digital Library. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
6. ^ "Boothby Pagnell Parish Council". Lincolnshire.gov.uk.
7. ^ a b "Boothby Pagnall P C C". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011.
8. ^ "North Beltisloe Group Council Report for PCC AGMs."; Boothby.org.uk. PDF download required. Retrieved 14 May 2012
9. ^ Historic England. "Church of St Andrew (1062868)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 30 June 2011.
10. ^ Cox, J. Charles (1916) Lincolnshire p. 68; Methuen & Co. Ltd.

## External links

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* Media related to Boothby Pagnell at Wikimedia Commons
* "Boothby Pagnell", Genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 30 June 2011
* Newton: "The Expert View", Open University
* "Boothby Pagnell", Boothby Pagnell Village website

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