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of the whole. In Lincolnshire, on the other hand,
though
"even in this country, taken as a whole,
it would be difficult to say whether the names of
Norse or English origin predominate," yet "let the
eye run over a map from Theddlethorpe, on the
coast, through Withern, Ruckland, Scamblesby, Thimbleby, Coningsby, Revesby, Firsby, to Skegness, and
it will be found that names, other than Danish, in
this large area may be almost counted on the fingers"
(Lincolnshire and the Danes, by the Rev. G. S.
Streatfeild, pp. 10, 16). Mr. Streatfeild notes that
the map shows three main streams of Danish immigration;
one from Burton Stather up the valley of
the Trent and towards Lincoln and Caistor;
another
from Grimsby and a third from Skegness spreading
inland, but leaving some spaces between these groups
to the old Anglian inhabitants, and generally avoiding
the Fen district, though there was a colony between
Boston and the coast, and west of the fens South
Kesteven is filled with "byes"
suburban to Stamford.
"Nowhere near Boston is there a by or a thorpe (unless we except Fenthorpe). If we may venture
upon an inference from this peculiarity, it is that the
Northmen who settled at Brothertoft, Pinchbeck,
Wigtoft (Wiketoft, once on the coast), and other parts
of the fen, did so at a later period." The settlement
at first was not a clearance of the English: in many
cases it was merely a change of owners;
but gradually
the Danes increased in numbers, either from the
natural growth of population, or from additional immigrations, or both, and new land was taken up.
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