Have you ever wondered how Tinwell got its name? This article gives some interesting place-name information and a little local history about Tinwell Mills from the Domesday Book onwards.
“By the Way.
TINWELL MILLS IN OLDEN DAYS.
In our report of the fire in our issue of last week, we mentioned that Mr. Starsmore had records of the mill’s existence in the days of Charles the first. We have since been reminded by a correspondent that in Domesday Book, or the survey made by William the Conqueror (circa 1075) it is reported of ‘Tedinwelle’ as it was then called that it was held by the Church of St. Peter de Burgh (Peterborough) and besides seven hides (120 acres each) and a virgate (about 30 acres) of pasture, and eighty carucates of arable land (about 960 acres) THERE WERE TWO MILLS and 20 acres of meadow, besides seven carucates held by 24 villaines and 11 borderers, villaines were villages and borderers from the Saxon word bord, a cottage, were cottages.
Then again in the 11th year of Henry the 3rd (1227), the King in a Charter of confirmation of its possessions to the Abbott and Convent of Peterborough mentions amongst other properties at Tinewell the ‘Mill and all the appendages.’
Tinwell appears to have been anciently written Tedinwelle and Tynewelle, from its situation near a spring or well in the meadows, near the river–Tede signifying hay grass and Ing a meadow.”
Stamford and Rutland Guardian, 26th February, 1916.