Caenby
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox UK place Caenby is a hamlet and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated Template:Convert north of the city and county town of Lincoln. The population is included in the civil parish of Glentham.
The place name, Caenby, seems to contain an unrecorded Old Norse personal name Kafni, + bȳ (Old Norse), a farmstead, a village, so possibly, 'Kafni's farm or settlement'. [1] The place appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Couenebi.[2]
Caenby's Grade II listed Anglican church is dedicated to St Nicholas.[3] A moated manor house, now the Grade II listed Hall Farm House,[4] was a seat of the Tournay family from the time of Edward I to George II. In 1541 Henry VIII slept here while on his Lincolnshire progress.[5] In the 18th century, Lawrence Monck occupied the house.[4][6]
In 1945 fields adjacent to Caenby were a military Q decoy site maintained by RAF Hemswell. Dummy plywood buildings, inflatable rubber aircraft or vehicles, and a ploughed faux runway were set up to simulate an active airfield and draw German bombers away from genuine target airfields.[7]
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- "Caenby (or Cannby)", Genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 10 July 2011
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- ↑ A. D. Mills, Dictionary of English Place-Names (Oxford, 2002), p. 92; E. Ekwall, Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names (Oxford, 1960), p. 81; K. Cameron, Dictionary of Lincolnshire place-names, (Nottingham, 1998), p. 26; K. Cameron (ed.), Place Names of Lincolnshire: Part 6 (Nottm, 2001), p. 137
- ↑ National Archives: E31/2/2/7059
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- ↑ Cox, J. Charles (1916) Lincolnshire p. 92; Methuen & Co. Ltd
- ↑ Hodgson, John A History of Northumberland, in three parts, Part 2, Volume 1 p. 356. (2010), Template:ISBN. Retrieved 10 July 2011
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