King Lud's Entrenchments
Other OS name in the Parish of Croxton Kerrial
Historical Forms
- King Lud's Intrenchments 1795 Nichols
Etymology
, King Lud 's Intrenchments 1795 Nichols ; an undated linear earthwork of rampart and ditch forming part of the parish boundary on Saltby Heath . Lud was a legendary king of Britain who appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth 's Historia Regum Britanniae as the eldest brother of Cassivelaunus . He succeeded Heli , his father , as king of Britain , replanned and rebuilt its capital Trinovantum and renamed it Kaerlud , later Kaerlundein , eventually London . Supposedly , he was in time buried at a gateway of his capital , now remembered as Ludgate ; but v. Ludforth in Branston f. ns . ( b ) .
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
- Blackwell Lodge
- Butchers' Arms
- Cedar Hill
- Church Fm
- Conygear Wood
- Cooper's Plantation
- Croxton Banks
- Croxton Lodge
- Croxton Park
- Fish Ponds
- Fox
- Hallam's Wood
- Heath Fm
- Highfields Fm
- Hillside Fm
- Kennel Plantation
- Lawn Hollow Plantation
- Old Hall
- The Old Windmill
- Old Wood
- Osier Holt
- Park Ho
- Peacock
- St John the Baptist's Church
- Swallow Hole
- Temperance Ho
- Tipping's Gorse
- The Vicarage
- Windmill Hill
- Branston Lodge
- Bunkers Wood
- High Leys Fm
- Lings Covert
- Lings Fm, Lings Hill
- Nursery Plantation
- The Rectory
- Reservoir Cottage
- St Guthlac's Church
- Square and Compass
- Terrace Hill Fm
- Wheel Inn