Threekingham
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Threekingham (sometimes Threckingham) is a village in mid-Lincolnshire, on the A52 Grantham to Boston road, near Sleaford.
[edit] History
Dominated by its church, St Peter ad Vincula (St Peter in chains), the small village of Threekingham lies 7 miles south of Sleaford, just off the modern A52 linking Nottingham to Boston. Folklore suggests that the village was originally called Laundon, but this was changed after the bloody battle fought near Threekingham, in either 869 or 870, between the Saxons (led by the earls Algar, Morcar and Leofric) and the invading Danes (during which 3 Danish kings and many of their followers were slain). What is more likely, however, is that the original settlement or 'ham' was created more than 1300 years ago when the Saxon 'Trincinghas' tribe came to the area near to the crossroads of the Roman road (Mareham Lane) which was built as an offshoot of the Ermine Street to help defend the Carr Dyke (6 km to the east of the village), and the more ancient Salters Way that joined the salt mines at Droitwich in the West Midlands to the Wash.
