The name
Known as Roxebi in 1086 Mills translates the villages name as 'farmstead or village of a
man called Hrokr'.
More information can be found in:
- Eminson T.B.F. Place and River Names of the West Riding of Lindsey Lincolnshire.
- Mills, A.D. A Dictionary of English Place Names.
The place
The village of Roxby is situated a mile south west of Winterton and commands extensive views of the River Humber. In 1699 a roman mosaic floor was discovered in a field to the south west of the church. Subsequent excavations did more harm than good and it was not accurately excavated and recorded until 1972 by G.C.Knowles, then curator of the Scunthorpe Museum. In 1989 excavations by the Humberside Archaeology Unit concluded that the mosaic was part of an aisled structure with the mosaic forming the flooring for a suite of rooms at one end of the villa which may have been up to 20 meters wide and 50 meters long.
Population history
| Year |
Population |
|
1801 |
273 |
|
1811 |
269 |
|
1821 |
350 |
|
1831 |
373 |
|
1841 |
339 |
|
1851 |
330 |
|
1861 |
348 |
|
1871 |
374 |
|
1881 |
417 |
|
1891 |
392 |
|
1901 |
389 |
|
1911 |
378 |
|
1921 |
607 |
|
1931 |
548 |
|
1941 |
N/A |
|
1951 |
524 |
|
1961 |
416 |
|
1971 |
478 |
|
1981 |
456 |
|
1991 |
440 |
Entry from Kelly's Trade Directory for 1900
ROXBY is an ancient village and Parish, including Risby and Sawcliffe hamlets, and pleasantly situated, commanding an extensive view of the River Humber, 4 miles north-west from Appleby station on the South Yorkshire branch of the Great Central (late M.S.&L.) railway, 9 west-south-west from Barton and 1 mile south-west from Winterton, in the North Lindsey division of the county, parts of Lindsey, northern division of Manley wapentake, petty sessional division of Winterton, union of Glanford Brigg, Barton-on-Humber county court district, rural deanery of Manlake, archdeaconry of Stow and diocese of Lincoln. Under the provisions of the "Local Government Act, 1894" (56 and 57 Vict. c. 73) the parish is governed by an Urban District Council having from 1863 been under the control of a Local Board. The church of St. Mary, thoroughly restored in 1875 at a cost of about £1,700, under the direction of Mr. James Fowler, architect, of Louth, is a building of stone in the Decorated style of the 14th century, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, north transept, south porch and an embattled western tower containing a clock and 3 bells: in the chancel is a piscina and two canopied sedilia, and here are also memorial windows to William Chatterton, d. 1882 and Ann Chatterton d. 1869, erected by permission of V.D.H Cary-Elwes esq. who is lay rector: the south aisle also contains a piscina, and has a window in memory of the Taylor family, 1875, and a recessed arch enclosing the tomb of an ecclesiastic, above which is a handsomely carved canopied niche: the transept is now used as a vestry: there are 200 sittings. The register, including Risby, dates from the year 1603. The living is a vicarage, with that of Risby annexed, joint net yearly value £500, including 120 acres of glebe and residence in the gift of V.D.H. Cary-Elwes esq. and held since 1879, by the Reverend Walter Arthur Taylor, of Caius College, Cambridge, who is non-resident. The Rev. Richard Northon Matthew M.A. of Keble College, Oxford, has been curate in charge since 1891. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel built in 1897. In 1709 a Roman tessellated pavement was found in a field south-west of the church; subsequently it was more extensively uncovered, and was copied and engraved in 1799, but incorrectly, by Mr William Fowler, of Winterton, and in 1873 it was again uncovered, and an exact coloured drawing made to scale by V.D.H. Cary-Elwes esq. A reading-room founded by Miss Chatterton, of High Risby, in memory of her father, William Chatterton, in 1883, is supported by voluntary contributions, and managed by a committee, of which the curate in charge is chairman: Mrs Sarah Markham, widow of William Markham, formerly gamekeeper here, died 28th June, 1892 at the age of 107, having been born at Park Street, near St. Albans, 29th May, 1785. Valentine Dudley Henry Cary-Elwes esq. of the Manor House, Brigg, is lord of the manor, and owns all the parish, with the exception of the glebe. The soil is various; subsoil, ironstone, limestone and sandstone. The chief crops are turnips, barley, wheat and pasture for sheep. The area of the parish is 4,900 acres of land and 8 of water; rateable value, £4,787; the population in 1891 was 392.
RISBY is a hamlet, 2 miles south; the ruins of its ancient church, dedicated to St. Bartholomew, are still traceable.
SAWCLIFFE is a hamlet 2 miles south-west.
Parish Clerk, Brumby Crowston.
Post Office, - Brumby Crowston, sub-postmaster. Letters from Doncaster arrive at Appleby station, thence by mail cart at 8.40 a.m.; dispatched at 5.35 p.m. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. The nearest money order and telegraph office is at Winterton, 2 miles distant.
Holdings in North Lincolnshire Local Studies Library
- Beckwith, I. Victorian Village: Roxy, a Lincolnshire village in the 19th century.
- Needham, J.D. & Warburton, A.J. Roxby: a village story.
- Harrison, R.J. & Craddock, P. Re-discovery of the lost hoard of late Bronze Age axes from Roxby Lings.
- Atkinson, H.W. The family of Atkinson of Roxby & Thorne & Dearman of Braittwate & families connected with them.
References in the Star Newspaper Index
- Foundation stone laid for Primitive Methodist Chapel LLS 01.01.1898 8e.
- Farmhouse destroyed by fire LS 02.01.1915 5b.
- Winterton UDC agree to take water from Roxby LS 09.12.1911 5d.
- Roman House discovered SFS 10.02.1934 7d.