Morton and Hanthorpe is the new name of Morton by Bourne in Lincolnshire, England. There are several villages and hamlets in the county with the name of Morton. They were once far enough apart not to be confused but in an age of easy communication it has become necessary to distinguish between them. This Morton is at TF090240. Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs) is a county in the East Midlands of England. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (mid-2004) - Density Ranked 1st UK 50. ... Originally, in continental Europe, a county was the land under the jurisdiction of a count. ... This is a list of places in the ceremonial county of Lincolnshire, United Kingdom. ...

Geography

Geology

Morton lies on the western margin of The Fens on three sorts of land, the upland, the fen edge and the fen. The parish was laid out in an elongated form so as to provide access to each of these. At the highest edge, in the west, the geology is chalky glacial till (boulder clay) but most of the upland is Jurassic, including a little Oxford Clay but mostly Kellaways Sand and some Cornbrash and Kellaways Clay. The fen edge consists of First Terrace Gravel with a little Glacial Gravel. The landward part of the fen was black soil, composed largely of peat. Over the two and half centuries since the land was drained, this has largely oxidized away leaving the underlying First Terrace gravel and the mainly clays of the Barroway Drove Beds. These beds form the central part of the fen as well, as they do at the eastern end of the parish. However, there, there is a broad ridge of the Terrington Beds, the remains of a huge marine creek which was not laid down until the Bronze Age and was still active when the Romans diverted Bourne Eau into it By means of what is called by archaeologists 'the Bourne-Morton Canal'. Our medieval ancestors knew it as 'the (Bourne) Old Ea'. Redgrave and Lopham Fen. ... A parish is a type of administrative subdivision. ... Geology (from Greek γη- (ge-, the earth) and λογος (logos, word, reason)) is the science and study of the Earth, its composition, structure, physical properties, history, and the processes that shape it. ... The Kansan Glaciation (known in UK as the Anglian Glaciation and sometimes referred to as the Illinoian Glaciation, Elster glaciation in northern Europe and the Mindel glaciation in the Alps) was a very severe glacial period in the Pleistocene. ... This article is about glacial sediments, for other uses see till (disambiguation). ... The Jurassic period is a major unit of the geologic timescale that extends from about 200 million years BP at the end of the Triassic to 146 million years BP at the beginning of the Cretaceous. ... Oxford Clay is a Jurassic marine sedimentary rock underlying much of South East England from as far West as Dorset and as far North as Yorkshire. ... Muck is a soil made up primarily of faeces from drained swampland. ... The most fundamental reactions in chemistry are the redox processes. ... Clay is a generic term for an aggregate of hydrous silicate particles less than 4 μm (micrometres) in diameter. ... In United Kingdom usage, the term creek refers exclusively to a tidal water channel. ... The Bronze Age is a period in a civilizations development when the most advanced metalworking has developed the techniques of smelting copper from natural outcroppings and alloys it to cast bronze. ... Roman or Romans has several meanings, primarily related to the Roman citizens, but also applicable to typography, math, and a commune. ... Bourne Eau rises in the Wellhead, otherwise known as St Peters Pool, in the town of Bourne, Lincolnshire at Grid reference TF093199. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ...

Settlement

The village is in two parts, one each side of the fen-edge road, the A15. To the fenward side is Morton and to the upland side is Hanthorpe. The earlier name is that of Morton which will come from the acid peat land which the Anglian settlers found in the fen in around the year 500. The name therefore indicates that the fen was to a significant extent better called the bog in modern terminology. They were Germanic speakers so they called it a moor. Hanthorpe is a name indicating a subsidiary settlement established in the period of the Danish settlements, probably in the tenth century. The church and the later signs of the manorial centre are in Morton. The A15 is a major road in England. ... A map showing the general locations of the major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms The Anglo-Saxons were originally a collection of differing Germanic tribes from Angeln—a peninsula in the southern part of Schleswig, protruding into the Baltic Sea, and what is now Lower Saxony, in the north-west coast of... Events Possible date for the Battle of Mons Badonicus: Romano-British and Celts defeat an Anglo-Saxon army that may have been led by the bretwalda Aelle of Sussex (approximate date; suggested dates range from 490 to 510) Note: This battle may have influenced the legend of King Arthur. ... Forsyth-Edwards Notation (FEN) is a standard notation for describing a particular board position of a Chess game. ... Look up Bog on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Virgin boreal acid bogs at Browns Lake Bog, Ohio. ... Redgrave and Lopham Fen. ... As a means of recording the passage of time, the 10th century was that century which lasted from 901 to 1000. ...

External link

Village web site.