Saltfleetby Timeline

Timeline

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Pre Roman – Corieltauvi - Coritani Celtic Tribe – Fishing at Mablethorpe, Salterns on coast

47 AD – Arrival of Romans (in Saltfleetby for 500 years)

100 -120 AD – Roman pottery: samian ware sherds

120-180 AD – Roman pottery from Central Gaul

160-180 AD – shallow Roman dish Dragendorff 79

160-225 AD – course Roman cooking ware – Dales ware

270-400 AD - flanged bowl from the Swanpool kilns in Lincoln

End of C3 – Abandonment of Saltfleetby site by Romans (no pottery later than this found here)

C7 -C8 – Formation of large landward dunes on coast (in south of NNT)

1000-1050 – Viking Spindle Whorl engraved with runes made at St Clements

1066 - Maccus of South Cadeby (Cockerington), Queen Edith, Andor, Jaulfr, Alnoth – pre Norman 

               lords/land holders.

1086 – Domesday book - Saltflatebi = farmstead, village on or near Saltfleet, 53 Households, 6 owners:

               King William I,  Bishop (William de St-Calais) of Durham, his man Thurstan, Alfred of Lincoln,

               Rainer de Brimou, William Blund

1115 – Lindsey Survey - Count of Brittany had become the major landowner

1150 – All Saints Church earliest date of building

1153 - (aprox) Birth of Hugo le Newcomen of Saltfleetby, crusader with Richard I

1225 – Saltfleetby St Clements church originally constructed

1268 – Fair granted to Saltfleetby - 20th to 27th September, Lord John Galle of Saltfleetby

1300 – Stone reredos in the south aisle of All Saints Church

1301 – Saltfleetby's annual Fair is moved to Skidbrooke

C13 – Sand dunes (now in NNT) began to form after some unusually large storms. 

1334 - Lay subsidy records - Saltfleetby paid £7 6s 6d

1377 - 320 taxpayers in the Saltfleetby

1436 - William "of Saltfleetby" Newcomen (Newcombe) born

1460 - Martin "of Saltfleetby" Newcomen born

1466 – William Newcomen died (age about 30)

1480 – Bryan Newcomen born

Late C15 – Old St Peter’s Church built

1510 – Bryan Newcomen marries Margaret Greenfield in Saltfleetby

1528 – Charles Newcomen born (later he becomes an officer in the exchequer)

1540 – Martin Newcomen died age 80 (his son) Bryan Newcomen dies age 60

1540 – Old Manor House built (now a listed building)

1547 - Rev Elias Newcomen born (Great Grandfather of Thomas Newcomen, inventor of steam engine in

              1712)

1563 - Population of Saltfleetby St Peter, All Saints = 31 households + 3 at Three Bridges hamlet, 13 in St

               Clements

1571 – Great Flood 5th October: end of salt industry here, Houses blown down, bridges washed away,

              ships wrecked

1611 - Nave and south aisle of All Saints repaired

1619 - Rev. John Watson becomes rector of St Clements

1630 – One of bells of All Saints cast

1631 – Charles Newcomen dies (age 103)

1642 – Local land owner Sir Gervase Scrope of Cockerington wounded at battle of Edge Hill in Civil War

               (23 Oct)

1675 – Another bell of All Saints cast

1693 - Death of Rev John Watson, rector of St Clements for 74 years

Early C18 – Moat Hall farmhouse built (now a listed building)

Early C18 - 27 families resident in Saltfleetby St Peter, 31 All Saints, 13 to 19 families in St Clements with

                         one Anabaptist family

Mid C18 – Stables at Old Manor House built (listed)

C18 – Beech Tree Cottage, Former stable block and carriage house built (now listed building)

Late C18 - Ivy Grove House on Back St is built (listed)

Late C18 – The Cottage (right of Mill House) built (listed)

1778 – Thomas Oldham born

1785 – Oldham family of Asterby buy Saltfleetby House

1799 - Five bells in the tower of All Saints, cast by James Harrison of Barton on Humber

1801 – Population - Saltfleetby St Peter =146, All Saints = 148, St Clements = 114

1810 – Dreadful storm of 10th November

1812 – Prospect Tower built in grounds of Saltfleetby House by Thomas Oldham

1821 – Population All Saints = 218

1827 – Original East Methodist Chapel built

1833 - Large storm on 1st and 2nd Sept causes shipwrecks and damage along coast

1839 – Billy Paddison born

1843 – Thomas Oldham dies

1848 - West End Methodist Chapel built

1849 - Construction of School

1850 – Gayton Engine Pumping Station opened

1851 – Population All Saints = 200

1851 – School Opens (approx.)

1855 - School Library opened

Mid C19 - Tumbleydown Cottage built (listed) on North End Lane

1856 - Rev. William Richards Watson and wife Louisa Emma (nee Hastings) come to Saltfleetby St Peter

1858 - Centenary (primitive) Methodist Chapel built

1863 – Birth of William & Louisa Watson’s first daughter: 2nd December Mary Louisa (later

               Floyer/Cornish) Watson

1867 - Rev Henry Usher becomes vicar of St Clements

​1871 – Population: St Peters = 339, St Clements = 154

1872 - Admiral Sir Hugh Dudley Richards Watson, KCB CVO CBE, born in Saltfleetby 20th April

1873 – Chancery of All Saints rebuilt

1874 – 11 December - Wreck of the brig Rimac

1877 – Old East Chapel demolished and new one + Sunday School built (now private house)

1877 – Railway opened – building of station house and 5 gatehouses in Saltfleetby

1877 – St Peter’s church moved to present site, using fragments from C13-15 original, leaving the Stump

1885-6 – St Clements church re-built using C13/14 fragments of original

1886 – All Saint’s Church repaired

1894 - Extension built onto the School

1901 – Population: St Peter = 246, All Saints = 153, St Clements = 99

1905 – Rev William Watson retires as vicar of St Peters age 77

1907 – New Chapel build in place of old Centenary Chapel (currently Snooker Club)

1908 – Rev William Watson dies, age 80 in Eastbourne

1914 – Start of First World War

1916 – Billy Paddison dies

1916 - Army training camp at Rimac and Sea View

1917 – Pillbox built at sea bank at Sea Farm (now listed building)

1929 – Rimac owned by J.P. Newton & Son, manged as holiday camp by Mr Cecil Scott.

1932 – Sandhills act – East Lindsey District Council – to control development along coastline

1935 – Rimac sold to Air Ministry for military purposes again

1935 – Elizabethan pulpit gifted from Oriel College, Oxford to Saltfleetby All Saints

1939 – The Second World War

1940 – August: defending brigade (from Hampshire Regiment) set up Forward Section Posts:

               pillboxes for beach defence + dug three-man fire trenches,

1940 - ‘A’ Sub Sector of ‘C’ Sector of the Lincs coast defended by 205 Infantry Brigade of the 1st (Lincoln

               County) Division of I Corps. Bren light machine gun sections placed in saltings, anti-tank cubes at

               sea bank. inland pillboxes, roadblocks, and observation posts manned by local units of the Home

               Guard.

1941 – Early: defending battalion: the 7th Bn Royal Norfolk Regiment,

1941 – Later: the Bn Leicestershire Regimen

1949 - A Wooden Village Hall is built on the Main Road

1953 – 31st January - Storm Surge coastal flooding up to 5 miles inland on East Coast

1956 - The bell from Old St Peter's Tower is removed (later installed in St Nicholas’s, Newport, Lincoln)

1956 - New pumping stations open at Saltfleet and Theddlethorpe

1963 – Centenary Chapel sold – becomes Snooker/Social Club

1960 - Closure of railway

1962 - Public inquiry into revocation of planning permission for caravan camp on Saltfleetby sand dunes

1969 – part of coastal site handed over to the Nature Conservancy and declared a National Nature 

               Reserve

1973 - All Saints’ and St Clements Churches declared pastorally redundant

1976 - The Churches Conservation Trust take care of All Saints

1976 – Friends of Friendless churches takes over maintenance of the Stump

1996 – East Chapel converted to a private dwelling

1999 – Official merger of 3 parishes into one Saltfleetby with one parish council.  Gas field opened by

               Wingas

2001 – Population = 599

2011 – Population = 568

2016 - Marshlands Community Centre - becomes new home of Louth Town FC

2016 – School closed down

2021 – Population = 544

2022 – Old School Hub and Café opens