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Goltho is a hamlet in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated south-west from Wragby, and south from the A158 road. Wragby and Goltho Limewood Walk, through one of the Lincolnshire Limewoods National Nature Reserves, passes Goltho Hall, Goltho Chapel and Goltho deserted medieval village.〔(PDF)("Wragby and Goltho" ); Lincolnshire Limewood Walks, Lincolnshire.gov.uk. Retrieved 3 June 2012〕 ==History== The settlemant has Anglo-Saxon roots. There was a Romano-British settlement at Goltho in the 1st and 2nd centuries.〔("Goltho Medieval Settlement Earthwork and Cropmark Site" ), English Heritage. Retrieved 3 June 2012〕 The origin of the name is uncertain, perhaps from an Old Scandinavian (Viking) first name or the Viking word for "ravine", or as is widely accepted locally, "where the marigolds grow", referred to in Henry Thorold's guide to the redundant St George's Church, Goltho. The remains of the early medieval village were excavated in the 1970s. A Saxon settlement on the site consisted of two houses; about 850 the site was fortified with the addition of a banked enclosure, and a hall was added. A motte-and-bailey castle was built at Goltho in around 1080.〔 Goltho Hall was the ancestral seat of the Grantham family. Sir Thomas Grantham (1574–1630) was Sheriff of Lincoln in 1600〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sheriffs of Lincoln )〕 and MP for Lincolnshire from 1621 to 1622. He was a shareholder in the Virginia Company and is listed in the Third Virginia Charter of 1612.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=3rd Virginia Charter )〕 He was a Puritan and was imprisoned in Lincoln Castle for refusing to pay Ship Money.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hotten's Original List of persons of quality, emigrants, religious exiles, political rebels, etc. who went from Great Britain to the American Plantations 1600 – 1700 )〕 His son Thomas (1612–1655) was MP for Lincoln during the Long Parliament〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=English Civil War Regiment of Lord Molyneux and civil war battles )〕 and raised a regiment of foot which fought at the Battle of Aylesbury in 1642. The hall was eventually sold to the Mainwairing family and demolished in 1812.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=England's Lost Country Houses | complete list of demolished country houses in England )〕 The present hall was built nearby in 1875. The village is described in White's ''1842 Lincolnshire Directory'' as "a parish of scattered farms", covering about . Goltho ecclesiastical parish was united with Bullington to form one tithe-free parish in the peculier jurisdiction of the Bishop of Lincoln. Together, the two parishes covered about . 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Goltho」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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