Heydour

Coordinates: 52°56′38″N 0°29′56″W / 52.944°N 0.499°W / 52.944; -0.499

Heydour is a hamlet and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately 5 miles (8 km) south-west from Sleaford and 6 miles (10 km) north-east from Grantham. It is one in a close group of parish hamlets, the others being Kelby, Culverthorpe, Oasby and Aisby.

History

The Domesday Book records the place as "Haidure" and "Heidure", with 80 acres (32 ha) of meadow and 16 acres (6.5 ha) of woodland within the manor of Osbournby. Before the Norman Conquest it was under the Lord of the manor lordship of Aelfric, son of Godram, and after 1086, Vitalis.

Around the village, particularly to the south, are earthwork indications of houses, crofts, quarries and ridge and furrow field systems from an earlier Medieval village. The village belonged to the historical wapentake of Winnibriggs and Threo.

In 1885 the area of the township was 3,140 acres (12.7 km²) with a population in 1881 of 363, and the parish, including Kelby and Culverthorpe, 5,140 acres (20.8 km²) with a population of 447. There existed in Heydour, since the 14th century, freestone quarries that provided the first stones for Belton House.