{{Short description|Village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} {{Use British English|date=October 2014}} {{Infobox UK place | country = England | coordinates = {{coord|53.315920|-0.577695|display=inline,title}} | official_name = Brattleby | static_image = St Cuthbert, Brattleby.jpg | static_image_width = 240px | static_image_caption = St Cuthbert's Church, Brattleby | population = 111 | population_ref = (2011) | shire_district = West Lindsey | shire_county = Lincolnshire | region = East Midlands | constituency_westminster = Gainsborough | civil_parish = | post_town = Lincoln | postcode_district = LN1 | postcode_area = LN | dial_code = | os_grid_reference = SK948808 | london_distance_mi = 130<!-- straight line per MOS – constant and comparable with other place distances --> | london_direction = SSE }}

'''Brattleby''' is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The population at the 2011 census was 111,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11121103&c=Brattleby&d=16&e=62&g=6447803&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1461491948281&enc=1|title=Civil parish population 2011|accessdate=24 April 2016|publisher=Office for National Statistics|work=Neighbourhood Statistics}}</ref> a slight decrease from 113 in the 2001 census. It is {{convert|5|mi|km|0}} north of Lincoln, west of the A15, and near to RAF Scampton.

In 1981, the village was designated a conservation area.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Clay |first=Alan |date=September 1981 |title=Brattleby Conservation Area Appraisal |url=https://www.west-lindsey.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2022-02/Brattleby%20conservation%20area%20appraisal.pdf |access-date=17 August 2022 |website=West Lindsey District Council}}</ref>

==History== According to ''A Dictionary of British Place Names'', Brattleby is defined as "a farmstead or a village of a man called Brot-Ulfr", an Old Scandinavian person name, with 'by', a "farmstead, village or settlement".<ref>Mills, Anthony David (2003); ''A Dictionary of British Place Names'', pp.73, 520, Oxford University Press, revised edition (2011). {{ISBN|019960908X}}</ref>

In the Domesday Book of 1086, Brattleby is mentioned three times as "Brotulbi",<ref>[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/search-results.asp?searchtype=quicksearch&query=brattleby&catid=24&pagenumber=1&querytype=1&mediaarray=* "Documents Online: Brattleby, Lincolnshire"], ''Great Domesday Book'', Folios: 340v, 354v, 356v; The National Archives. Retrieved 9 July 2012</ref> in the Hundred of Lawress in the West Riding of Lindsey. The manor held 19.5 households, 2 smallholders 5 freemen, 3 ploughlands and a meadow of {{convert|8|acre|km2|2}}. In 1066 Ulf Fenman was Lord of the Manor, this transferred in 1086 to Gilbert of Ghent, who also became Tenant-in-chief.<ref>{{OpenDomesday|OS=SK9480|name=brattleby|display=Brattleby|accessdate=9 July 2012}}</ref>

Brattleby became a Barony after the Norman Conquest of 1066.{{cn|date=April 2026}} In 1169 the Barony of Brattleby was inherited by Nicola de la Haye, who became Sheriff of Lincolnshire, and, in 1216 after the death of her husband Gerard de Canville, castellan of Lincoln Castle, where she was involved in the 1217 Battle of Lincoln and the defence against various sieges during the First Barons' War.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/making_history/making_history_20051115.shtml "Making History - Nicholaa de la Haye"]; series 12, programme 5, BBC Radio 4, 15 November 2005. Retrieved 9 July 2012</ref><ref>Wilkinson, Linda (2007) ''Women in Thirteenth-Century Lincolnshire'', pp. 13–26, Royal Historical Society, Boydell Press. {{ISBN|0861932854}}</ref>

Brattleby Hall, established about 1780, with 1838-39 alterations by William Nicholson,<ref>{{NHLE|num=1063335 |desc=Brattleby Hall|accessdate=1 July 2011}}</ref> was owned by the De La Haye family during the reign of Henry I. Pevsner describes the hall as early Victorian and notes stables dated 1813;<ref name=Pevsner>Pevsner, Nikolaus; Harris, John; ''The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire'' p.&nbsp;2197; Penguin, (1964); revised by Nicholas Antram (1989), Yale University Press. {{ISBN|0300096208}}</ref> the stable block is Grade II listed.<ref>{{NHLE|num=1063336 |desc=Stable Block at Brattleby Hall, Brattleby|accessdate=9 July 2012}}</ref>

In 1885 ''Kelly's Directory'' recorded that the living at the discharged (incumbent untaxed for the first year of appointment<ref>[http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/NORFOLK/2002-03/1016033967 "Norfolk-L Archives"]; ''Ancestry.com''. Retrieved 9 July 2012</ref>) rectory was in the gift of Samuel W. Wright DL, JP, of Brattleby Hall, a "modern mansion", who was also principal landowner and lord of the manor. The chief crops within a parish area of {{convert|1238|acre|km2|0}} were wheat, barley, turnips and clover. The parish population in 1881 was 148. There was a mixed parochial school for 40 pupils, built in 1871 and supported by Samuel Wright. ''Kelly's'' also noted three farmers, a wool merchant, farm bailiff, shopkeeper, blacksmith and a wheelwright.<ref name=Kellys>''Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull'' 1885, p.&nbsp;335</ref>

Brattleby Grade II* listed Anglican church is dedicated to St. Cuthbert.<ref name=EH>{{NHLE|num=1063378|desc=Church of St Cuthbert|accessdate=1 July 2011}}</ref> It was established in the late 11th century with later additions in the 14th,<ref name=EH/> and was heavily restored in 1858 by James Fowler.<ref>Cox, J. Charles (1916) ''Lincolnshire'' p. 349; Methuen & Co. Ltd</ref> Nikolaus Pevsner notes a late Anglo-Saxon shaft of a cross at the south of the churchyard.<ref name=Pevsner/> ''Kellys'' described the church of St Cuthbert as: {{blockquote|a stone edifice in the Early English style rebuilt with the exception of the lower stage of the tower, and the arcade, in 1858, under the direction of Mr. James Fowler, of Louth: it consists of chancel, nave, north aisle and a western tower, surmounted by a small spire, containing 3 bells: there is a reredos of alabaster to the memory of the two elder sons of S W Wright Esq. of Brattleby Hall, also in the is chancel an ancient credence table. The east stained-glass window is in memory of Miss Mary Wright and another in the south side of the chancel is dedicated to Henrietta de Coetlogon. The register dates from the year 1686.<ref name=Kellys/>}}

The churchyard contains one Commonwealth War Graves Commission grave, that of Flying Officer Clare Connor, RAF, the Canadian pilot of the aircraft on the mission for which John Hannah received the Victoria Cross. Connor was presented with the DFC by King George VI at Buckingham Palace when Hannah received the VC. Connor was based at nearby RAF Scampton, and he and his wife attended services at St. Cuthbert's. He was killed on a subsequent mission, and his body recovered from the North Sea.<ref>Peggy Curran, "The unknown Canadian: Hudson widow alerts British village to heroic pilot's grave," Montreal Gazette 11 November 2010; see also "War widow travels 3,000 miles to visit the county grave of her airman husband," Lincolnshire Echo http://parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Files/Parish/51/ConnorLincsecho.pdf</ref>

==Notable people== *William Charles Salter, Rector *Nicola de la Haie, Hereditary Constable of Lincoln Castle.

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