Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• grangeam super le Lynges 1325 FA

• grangiam de Lynges in Lyndesey 1329 Ass

• Lynges 1374 Peace

• grang' de Lynges 1535 VE

• Lynges Grange alias le grange of Lynges 1544 LP

• the grange on ye lynges 1576 Saxton

• Lyngges Grange in Lyndeseye 1332 Pat

• Barlyngs graunge 1409 RRep

• Graunge Athyenges h[eath] 1536 LP

• Graunge Othings Moor 1536 LP

• Lyng, firma grang' 1537 Dugdvi

• granges called... Lyngs 1538,1539 LP

• Lyngs grange alias le grange Lyngs (in Riseholm') 1538 LP

• Grange de Lyngs 1711 MiscDep

• Grange de Lings 1552 WillsStow 1659 Cust2 1839 Monson

• The Grange on the Lings 1610 Speed

• grangia de Linges alias dict' Linges grange 1583 TYR

• The Grange the lynge 1607 CamdenMap

• Ryseholme Grange de Lings and Southrope 1666 Cust2

• the Grange 1695 Morden

• Grainge de Lings... in the Fields of Rysom 1749 LindDep

Etymology

Grange de Lings was extra-parochial and described as 'formerly part of Monastery of Barlyng(es)' 1539Anc . Note also Grainge de Lings ... in the Fields of Rysom 1749LindDep , Grange de Lynge referred to as a 'tract of land adjoining Rysom' but 'not in parish Rysom' 1769–75MiscDon . Lyng (e )s , Ling (e )s is a ME pl. form belonging to the Scand loan-word ON  lyng n. 'ling, heather'. We are concerned here with a grange of Barlings Abbey, cf. DLPN 52.

After the break-up of Barlings Abbey the 'King granted to Duke of Suffolk and his heirs for ever, all that Farm or Grainge called Lynges Graunge otherwise Graunge of Lynges within the Parish of Rysom' (30 Hy8). In a House of Lords trial of ownership, Chaplin v. Bree 1769, the record notes that 'the Lands called Grange de Lings were at that time [1558] in the Parish of Rysom; and no evidence was offered on the part of the appellant to show they had been separated at any time afterwards' (1769MiscDon ). In 1775 a retrial evidently reversed the decision and while the administration of the lands called Grange de Lings continued under the Manor of Riseholme, they were established as extra-parochial territory. In 1841 the Conveyance of the Lordship of Riseholme distinguished the Grange de Lings, 'Farmlands etc.', as being 'in the extra-parochial Township of Grange de Lings' (1841LindDep ).