Honington, Lincolnshire
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#Villages_in_Lincolnshire
#Civil_parishes_in_Lincolnshire
#South_Kesteven_District
Honington is an English village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire.
It lies just north of the junction between the A153 and A607 roads, about 5.
5 miles （8.9 km） north of Grantham and 8 miles （12.9 km） west of Sleaford.
Honington Hill Fort To the east of Honington are earthwork remains of an Iron Age fort, measuring 130-metre （430 ft） by 116-metre （381 ft） with defensive banks and ditches.
There a hoard of Roman coins was found in 1691, although an investigation in 1976 could find no evidence of Roman occupation.
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.
In the Domesday account of 1086, Honington appears as "Hondintone", "Hundindune" and "Hundinton".
Honington consisted of two manors in the old wapentake of Threo.
Before the Conquest one lordship worth 9 geld units was held by Godwin of Barrowby, and after by Ivo Tallboys.
The smaller lordship, worth three geld units, was held by Ulf （Fenman） before the 1066 conquest, then in 1086 by Fulbert with Gilbert of Ghent as his tenant-in-chief.
Honington, like every Lincolnshire village, was assessed at twelve carucates to the geld was known as a hundred in the 11th century, each hundred being a fiscal unit distinct from the larger political wapentake.
The village belonged to the historical wapentake of Winnibriggs and Threo after the mergers of wapentakes that occurred in the 11th–13th centuries.
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 with the Lincoln line.
Agricultural production was chiefly wheat, barley, oats, turnips and seeds, in a parish area of 1,454 acres （5.88 km2） with an 1881 population of 177...