Goltho Deserted Village

Wasn’t very interesting if it’s what I think it is

Another of my Lost villages.
All that remains of the deserted village of Goltho is the church, which has been in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust for many years. The chancel dates from the eighteenth century and most of the fittings are contemporary
Goltho is a parish about 10 miles northeast of Lincoln and 2 miles southwest of Wragby.
The Anglican Church, dedicated to St. George, is more properly called a chapel. It is a small red brick building. By 1900, the church had been converted to use only as a mortuary chapel.
Goltho contains a medieval village settlement consisting of a moat, and crofts with buildings, seen as cropmarks and earthworks. Excavation in 1973 revealed an early medieval ringwork and medieval motte and tower. This is a site that has undergone a rare extensive and detailed excavation and was found to have had a complex history. This started as a Saxon defended manorial site and had the earthworks modified on several occasions (and timber buildings rebuilt) including use as a Norman castle.
The most prominent component of Saxon aristocratic residences are the large and elaborately built timber halls. The archaeological evidence for these buildings comprises the foundation trenches and postholes from which may be inferred the methods of construction and the basic superstructure of the building.
In the guide to the church, Henry Thorold mentions the fact that the word Goltho means ‘where the marigolds grow’ and that it is one of the lost villages of Lincolnshire and that the field one treks through, was once bumpy with the grassy earthworks of the deserted village. Guy Beresford’s ‘History of the Parish’, in the same guide mentions that before the field was ploughed in 1970, it was very clearly defined by substantial earthworks of the Norman Castle mound, which stood close to the south-​west corner of the churchyard. That the 40-​acre site once represented one of the best examples of a clay-​land mediaeval village in the East Midlands and the size of the sunken roads, some 40 feet wide and 5 feet deep, saved the site from the plough for over 500 years.
The site was inhabited for 900 years and the little church is all that is left. It stands on the site of substantial stone-​built church. The nave is traditionally thought to have been built by the Grantham family when they purchased the estate in the 1530s, the chancel being added some 70 years later.
I believe the Hall was demolished.