Boothby Pagnell

Coordinates: 52°52′03″N 00°33′38″W / 52.8675°N 0.56056°W / 52.8675; -0.56056

Boothby Pagnell is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England.

Geography

It is just north of Bitchfield and south of Old Somerby on the B1176 and about six miles south-east of Grantham. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 150. Boothby Pagnell forms the most western point of The Ropsley Traingle, which denotes the general area between Ropsley, Boothby Pagnell and Ingoldsby

History

The church is dedicated to St Andrew.

Boothby Pagnall Manor

Boothby Pagnell has a surviving fragment of a medieval manor house, in the Norman style, dating from around 1200 AD^[1]. Boothby Pagnell was a small community, its population in 1086 being just 19. The village has archeological remains showing in the field known as 'Cooks Close', west of the church, mainly medieval housing, which seems to have fallen into disuse and dereliction by the fourteenth century, possibly as a result of the desertion of the workforce in the aftermath of the Black Death.

Isaac Newton

Although his uncle William Ayscough, the brother of Hannah Ayscough, was vicar of nearby Burton Coggles, during his time of discovery in 1666-7, Newton spent some time in the summer at the rectory of Boothby Pagnell, which had a considerable orchard. It is unknown whether Newton saw the apple fall at Boothby Pagnell or Woolsthorpe. The vicar was the Trinity College Fellow Humphrey Babington, the brother of Katherine Babington. She was a friend of Hannah Ayscough and the wife of William Clark, the owner of the house at which Newton lodged in Grantham whilst at school.

In his memoirs, Newton noted that he worked on Fluxions (what became differential calculus) at Babington's rectory, and also calculated the area under a hyperbola (involving integral calculus).

See also

• History of calculus

References

External links

• Isaac Newton and Boothby Pagnell
• Former vicars of the church