Watson, History of Clee and the Thorpes of Clee

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A  HISTORY  OF

CLEE  AND  THE  THORPES
OF  CLEE;

Being a Brief Account of the Townships of

CLEE, HOOLE, ITTERBY, THRUNSCOE,
WEELSBY, HOLM, CLEETHORPES,
NEW CLEE, BEACONTHORPE,
and NEW CLEETHORPES;

Comprising the parish of Clee in the County of Lincoln.

BY

C.  Ernest  Watson,
(Pastor of the Congregational Church of Lymm,
Cheshire).

Great Grimsby:
Grimsby News Co., Ltd., Printers and Stationers, 83 & 85, Victoria Street,
and Fish Dock Road
1901.

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HIC LIBELLUS DEDICATUS EST
Ad Memoriam
patris mei

CAROLI EDUARDI WATSON,

qui,
DIE XVII, MENSIS SEPTEMBRIS,
anno domini mdcccxciii,
et ætatis suæ xlvi,
Placide in Christo Obdormivit.

In Cœmeterio de Clee
Sepultus Est.

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CONTENTS.

Section I. Until Domesday.
Chapter	1.	Along the Coast	3
	2.	The Coming of the Saxons	6
	3.	The Coming of the Danes	10
	4.	The Coming of the Normans	13

Section II. The Middle Ages.
Chapter	1.	The History of Clee Township	19
	2.	Hoole, Itterby, and Thrunscoe	24
	3.	The Strange Eventful History of Weelsby Manor	30
	4.	Holm	35

Section III. Men and Manners.
Chapter	1.	The Days of Violence	39
	2.	Feuds and Factions	46
	3.	Clee and Cleethorpes Folk	52
	4.	Customs and Traditions	58

Section IV. Matters Ecclesiastical.
Chapter	1.	The Parish Church	65
	2.	The Parish Registers	74
	3.	The Free Churches	82
	4.	New Parishes and Chapels of Ease	88

Section V. Modern Times.
Chapter	1.	Clee Village	95
	2.	Cleethorpes-with-Thrunscoe	97
	3.	Weelsby and New Clee	106
	4.	Beaconthorpe and New Cleethorpes	109

Section VI. Dryasdust.
Chapter	1.	Words and Names—Flora and Fauna	115
	2.	Trade and Government	127
	3.	Notes and Queries	132
	4.	Authorities	139