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Honington is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies just north of the junction between the A153 and A607 roads, about north from Grantham and west from Sleaford. ==History== To the east of Honington are earthwork remains of an Iron Age fort, measuring by with defensive banks and ditches. In 1691 a hoard of Roman coins were found, although an investigation of 1976 found no evidence of Roman occupation.〔("Honington Camp" ), ''National Monuments Record'', English Heritage. Retrieved 24 October 2011〕〔Pevsner, Nikolaus; Harris, John; ''The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire'' pp. 576, 577; Penguin, (1964); revised by Nicholas Antram (1989), Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-09620-8〕 The 1885 ''Kelly's Directory'' view of the earthworks "on the heath near the village" is that it is the site of a Roman Camp with fosse and vallum.〔''Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull'' 1885, p. 483〕 In the ''Domesday'' account Honington is written as "Hondintone", "Hundindune" and "Hundinton".〔("Documents Online: Honington" ), Folios: 351v, 355v, 377v, ''Great Domesday Book''; The National Archives. Retrieved 21 December 2011〕 Before the Conquest lordship was held by Godwin of Barrowby, and after by Ivo Tallboys.〔( "Honington" ), Domesdaymap.co.uk. Retrieved 21 December 2011〕 The village belonged to the historical wapentake of Winnibriggs and Threo.〔Vision of Britain site: (Retrieved 16 March 2012. )〕 ''Kelly's'' noted that Honington was a parish and railway station on the Grantham, Sleaford and Boston branch of the Great Northern Railway, at the junction of the Lincoln line. Agricultural production was chiefly wheat barley oats turnips and seeds, in a parish area of with an 1881 population of 177. The Lord of the Manor and sole landowner was Edward Southwell Trafford of Wroxham Hall, Norwich.〔 Honington Hall, the seat of James Hornsby JP was erected in 1862-63, a stone building in Elizabethan style with an attached observatory tower. A parochial school was built in 1863 for 60 children of both sexes.〔 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「Honington, Lincolnshire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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