- Eagle, Lincolnshire
Eagle is a small, quiet, 'X' shaped
village , south-west of Lincoln,England . It lies close to theA46 road .The village has a church, a primary school, a post office and a pub, called 'The Struggler'. The village has a local monthly newsletter called "The Eagle Eye".
Local Geography
The High Street runs roughly north-south; branching off this to the west at the north end is Scarle Laneand branching off to the east about mid-way along is Thorpe Lane. Church Lane on the west side of the High Street loops round to join it at both ends. Older maps show Green Lane roughly parallel to the High Street to the east, but this is now just an overgrown footpath.
There are three small housing estates. Falcon Close, off Thorpe Lane, was built in the 1960s; Hilltop Close, off Scarle Lane, was built in the 1970s; and Kestrel Rise, off the southern High Street, was built in the 1980s.
The area to the north of Eagle is known as Eagle Moor; the area to the south-west is called Eagle Halland that to the south-east is
Eagle Barnsdale .The nearest villages to Eagle are Swinderby (to the south), North Scarle (to the west) and Thorpe-on-the-Hill (to the east).
Local History
The name of the village originates from Old English 'Aycle', translated as 'Oak wood'. The village church has
Saxon origins.Eagle appears in the
Domesday Book , which shows that in 1086, following theNorman Conquest , the landowners of the village were: Roger of Poitou (property owned before 1066 by Arnketill Barn), Durand Malet, Odo the Crossbowman (land formerly owned by Gunnketill) andCountess Judith (land formerly owned by EarlWaltheof of Northumbria ). In 1086Eagle had a church and a priest and Countess Judith's manor had a value of £12. [ The Domesday Book -Lincolnshire, Phillmore & Co. Ltd.] Speculation that the pre-1066 land-owner Arnketill Barngave his name toEagle Barnsdale ?Countess Judith was a niece ofWilliam I -- she was the daughter of his half-sister Adelaide and her husband Lambert, Count of Lens. She was also the widow of EarlWaltheof of Northumbria (1072-75, the last of the Anglo-Saxon Earls of England) who she had betrayed over his part in theRevolt of the Earls , and who was executed in 1076.The
Knights Templar had a house in Eagle, founded byKing Stephen . In 1312 the house passedto theHospitallers and became one of only two infirmaries for Templars in England. [British History online (http://www.british-history.ac.uk/)]ee also
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Eagle Barnsdale
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