Stainton
Domesday Book - Lands of Roger de Bully. In Stainton, near Tickhill, Saeweard had 2½ carucates of land to the geld, where there could be 1 plough. Now Roger has 1 plough there; and 2 villans and 3 bordars ploughing with 2 oxen. TRE worth 20s ; now 16s.
Stainton - a frequent name in the North, usually means farmstead on stony ground, Old English st n replaced by Old Scandinavian: steinn plus t n
Source A Dictionary of British Place-Names in Names & Places
Ancient Deeds
In 1202 Hugh de Stainton granted 30 acres of land, in the fields of Stainton, at Rokkehill, to the Abbot of Roche and his successors for a pure and perpetual alms. In such that the said Abbot or his successors make no building on the aforesaid 30 acres of land without the consent and will of the aforefaid Hugh or his heirs. And if the same Abbot or his successors lose anything of the same 30 acres of land by default of warranty of the aforefaid Hugh or his heirs, the said Hugh or his heirs shall make exchange of their land which lies on the side next the said 30 acres of land on the east to the extent that they have lost.The Abbot of Roche bought land in Stainton of Richard Baret, which was confirmed by John, son of Hugh de Stainton, William Wasteneys, of Stainton, gave the monks half an oxgang of land here. The property of the Abbot of Roche in this place is supposed to have exceeded 370 acres of wood and pasture. This includes what he had at Lambcote Grange.
30 Sept 1408. Grant by Robt. de Ranfeld ( Ravenfield) to Hugh de Ranfeld, his son, of a messuage and one oxgang in the town and fields of Stenton (Stainton), late held by John Dey.
Witnesses: Sir Thos. de Reresby, Knt. Thos. Clarell, Thos. de Totehill, Thos. de Westby, Thos. Breton.
Ranfeld. Sunday after Michelmas, 10 Henry iv.
Stainton St. Winifred a discharged Vicarage. Area, 3,060 acres. Strafforth and Tickhill wapentake, Population, 254; This Church, together with Tickhill, of which it was a member, was given to the Priory of Nostel, to which it was appropriated, and a Vicarage ordained therein, in 1440.
Patron and impropriator, the Earl of Scarborough.
Not mentioned in Pope Nicholas's Survey. Valued in the King's books at £51. 14s. 2d.; in 1818, at 80s.; and in the Parliamentary Survey, 17s. per annum. Viscount Castleton is impropriator and patron. It is stated: "Now in regard we find but twenty families in Staynton, and it is but a mile from Brewell (Braithwell), therefore we think fit it be annexed to Brewell, and Helleby to Bramley, in the parish of Braithwell."
Augmented in 1722 with 200s., to meet benefactions of 100s. from Messrs. N. Pearson, George Pashley, Robert Pashley, Matthew Pursloe, and Thomas Tofield, and a legacy of 100s. from the Rev. Robert Turie.
The Rev. James Bosville's gift, in 1818: Interest to be paid to the clerk, and the residue to be given by the Vicar or Curate annually, in the first week in November, among the poor of Stainton not receiving parochial relief, in sums of 5s. each, or such larger sums as might be thought expedient.
Post town, Tickhill. Source: Collectio rerum ecclesiasticarum
Described in 1822 as a parish-town, in the upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 2.5 miles from Tickhill, 6.5 from Bawtry, 9 from Rotherham, 45 from York. Population, including Hellaby, 218, which being united form a township. The Church is a vicarage, dedicated, to St. Winifred, in the Deanery of Doncaster, value, £5 15s. 0d. Patron, the Earl of Scarborough.
Area details
Google Earth map of Stainton
Lambcote Grange
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