The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
You could be the next Lord or Lady of Spalding as the title is currently up for auction.
With a guide starting price of £8,500, the title is available through London-based Manorial Auctioneers.
The Marquess of Bristol owned the title after the original owners, the Carr family, had no male heir to pass it to.
Spalding features in the Domesday book which was produced after the survey of 1086. At the time the town belong to Ivo de Tailbois, Sheriff of Lincolnshire.
In 1086, Spalding had a population of around 1,310, based on 131 men and an estimate of ten people per household.
Robert Smith, spokesman for the auctioneers, said the title would be ideal for someone “who has everything” as it didn’t come with land rights.
Background information accompanying the details said the town had six fisheries at the time and an alder wood. Timber from the trees was resistant to rotting in water, which was important in an area which flooded regularly.
“Back in the Middle Ages, the most important corporations here were the abbey of Croyland and the priory of Spalding,” according to the details provided.
“The Romans almost certainly had a camp at Spalding when Britannia was part of their empire. In the 1830s, workmen accidentally unearthed 40 graves of Anglo-Saxons and Danes in Bridge Street.”
The sea once came to within a mile of the town centre and the Romans formed the old sea banks.
The Saxon earls of Mercia had their supreme courts in the town and between 1257 and 1501 some 80 “felons” were hanged.
The Spalding title is among a batch of 23 currently being offered by the auctioneers and is the only one from Lincolnshire.
For further information see the website www.msgb.co.uk
