Hornby (Lancashire)

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Coordinates: 54 ° 7 ′  N , 2 ° 38 ′  W

The tower of St Margaret's Church in Hornby

Hornby is a place on the River Wenning in Lancashire , England . Together with the place Farleton it forms the civil parish Hornby-with-Farleton , which has 729 inhabitants (2001).

Hornby is mentioned as Hornebi in the Domesday Book . The place was of particular strategic importance, because west of Hornby the River Wenning flows into the River Lune , and there has been the Loyn Bridge a little north of the place since the Middle Ages . Directly above the bridge are the remains of Castle Stede fortress from the 11th century. The fortification was built on a man-made hill called a moth . A bunker was set up on the plateau during World War II , underlining the ongoing strategic location of the square. Castle Stede is the best-preserved castle hill of several castles in the River Lune valley that no longer exist, but which were once used as an important line of defense against enemy incursions from the north into England, which crossed the Shap Summit and then along the course of the River Lune near Tebay , protected and still today demonstrate the borderland character of this area after the Norman conquest.

In the 13th century, began to replace Castle Stede with the construction of Hornby Castle , which is still in the place today.

In the late 12th or early 13th century, the Hornby Priory monastery cell was established as a branch of the Premonstratensian Abbey of Croxton Abbey . Hornby Priory consecrated St Wilfrid's independence soon after its inception. In 1534 Hornby Priory became the property of the Lords of Hornby Castle.

The oldest parts of the church of St Margaret with its octagonal tower date back to the 16th century. The church was rebuilt twice in the 19th century and is now a Grade I protected structure. Remains of two Anglo-Saxon crosses in the church, but especially the almost 2 m high lower part of such a cross in the south of the church, which is now a Grade II * protected monument, indicate a much longer Christian tradition at this point.

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  1. ↑ Loyn Bride on Engineering Timelines. The current bridge was built after 1591, but replaced an existing one.
  2. ↑ William Farrer & J. Brownbill (Eds., A History of the County of Lancashire, Vol. 2 , London: Constable, 1908, entry: Hornby Priory, pp. 160-161. Here: online )

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