The Ascoughs of Lincolnshire - Where East Fen Meets The Wolds

Approaching, as I am, the end of my current researches into the lives of my Ascough ancestors in Lincolnshire, I thought I would list all my current sources in chronological order. The main publications are as follows:

The History of Imbanking and Draining of Divers Fens and Marshes by Sir William Dugdale 1724 Edition. The Original Edition dated 1661 was first published in 1662 with maps by Wenceslas Hollar. 

The Fens and Floods of Mid Lincolnshire by J S Padley 1882.

A History of the Fen of South Lincolnshire by William Henry Wheeler 1897. Second Edition greatly enlarged.

English Peasant Farming - The Agrarian History of Lincolnshire from Tudor the Recent Times 1957

The Agricultural Revolution in South Lincolnshire by David Grigg 1966

The Changing Fenland by H C Darby 1983

Old and New Landscapes in the Horncastle Area by Eleanor and Rex C Russell 1985

Notes on the History of Toynton All Saints and Toynton St Peter by Ethel Rudkin 1985

The Fenland Project No 8: Lincolnshire Survey, The Northern Fen-Edge by T W Lane 1993

From Punt to Plough by Rex Sly 2003

Maps of the Witham Fens by R C Wheeler 2008

Lincolnshire Fenland Lidar by S J Malone 2012

The Lost Fens - England's Greatest Ecological Disaster by Ian D Rotherham 2013

Margins of the East Fen: Historic Landscape Evolution by Professor I G Simmons 2015

There are also other sources, listed in no particular order:

A Short History of Enclosure in Britain - The Land magazine

Lindsey Archaeological Services - Toynton Sewerage Scheme 2003

The Fen Slodgers - Skegness Magazine

In the Fens by Rex Sly

The Design for the Initial Drainage of the Great Level etc by Margaret Albright Knittl i Agricultural History Review

Witham Fourth District Drainage Board - History

A Remonstrance by a Holland Watchman 1800

An Address to Ninety Commoners by Rev Edward Walls 1807

Commoners: Common Right, Enclosure etc by J M Neeson

Enclosure of the South Lincolnshire Fens - Lincolnshire Archives

The Great Depression in British Agriculture - Wikipedia

Witham Navigable Drains - Wikipedia

Grace's Guide - Lade Bank Pumping Station

Lincstothepast.com

Cassini Historical Map    Old Series 1824   Skegness and Horncastle

OS Explorer Map: Skegness, Alford and Spilsby

I have taken notes and extracts from all the above in separate documents and my next exercise is to combine them in one consolidated narrative. It will take me a while.