Brigg, Lincolnshire - Parish Church - postcard c.1970s

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Parish Church, Brigg, Lincolnshire
• Publisher:  none given
• Postally used:  yes
• Stamp:  7p maroon Machin defin.
• Postmark(s):  Doncaster, date unclear [around 1980 judging by the stamp]
• Sent to:  Diss, Norfolk
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Brigg (/'br?g/) is a small market town in North Lincolnshire, England, with a population of 5,076 in 2,213 households (2001 UK census).^[1] The town lies at the junction of the River Ancholme and east-west transport routes across northern Lincolnshire. As a formerly important local centre, the town's full name of Glanford Brigg^[2] is reflected in the surrounding area and local government district of the same name. The town's urban area includes the neighbouring hamlet of Scawby Brook.

The area of present-day Brigg has been used for thousands of years as both a crossing point of the Ancholme and for access to the river itself. Prehistoric boats of sewn–built^[3] and dugout^[4] construction have been found in the town, both dating to around 900 BC. A causeway or jetty also stood on the riverside during the late Bronze Age, although its exact use is uncertain.^[5]

During the Anglo-Saxon period the area became known as Glanford. The second element of the name is not disputed, but the origin of the first element is unclear. It is possibly derived from the Old English gleam meaning joy or revelry, and thus the full word is interpreted as ""ford where sports are held"".^[6] Another suggestion is that the first element refers to a 'glamping' track—a walkway formed by placing interlocking planks or logs over boggy ground—and thus describes a ford crossed in this manner.^[7] A third possibility is that it means ""smooth ford""^[8] although its etymology is not specified.

Glanford Brigg was founded as a new town at the crossing place of the Ancholme before 1183, its first mention being a Pipe roll entry for that year.^[9] The town's formal charter for a weekly market and yearly fair date from a royal grant to Hugh Nevil in 1205, in which the founder's name is given as his father–in–law Stephen de Camera.^[10] The fair began on 25 July—the feast of Saint James—and continued for three days afterward. The grant of a market and fair were subsequently reconfirmed to Hugh's son Ernisius in 1235. The second part of the town's full name dates to this time, coming from the new bridge built to replace the existing ford. Its non–standard form of Brigg is due to influence from Old Norse bryggja, which although usually describes a jetty or quay here refers to a bridge.^[6] The name of a place spelt Glawemfordbrigge, in Lincolnshire, appears in 1418^[11]

Brigg originally sat at the meeting point of four parishes—Broughton, Kettleby, Scawby, and Wrawby—although it lay mainly in the last, and was officially regarded as part of that village. In the 1190s, the lord of the manor of Broughton, Adam Paynel, founded a hospital for the poor within the town.^[12] Several small chapels also existed during medieval times, with another hospital and chapel founded by William Tyrwhitt in 1441.^[12] However, the dissolution of the monasteries in 1536–41 also affected hospitals and chapels, leaving the town without ecclesiastical coverage except the parish church in nearby Wrawby.^[12]

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