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Austendike is the name of a road (spelt Austendyke)not a village —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.190.91.160 (talk) 20:47, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Does Austendyke exist?

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I'm not convinced, like our anonymous friend above, that there is a place called Austendike or Austendyke. There is an Austendyke road. A search of the South Holland district council web site only finds planning applications from a builder living on Austendyke. Pastscape knows nothing nearer than Cowbit, and that's a pretty good reference for locations of one sort or anohter, including shrunken villages.

Unless some evidence that it is, or was, a real place I am going to AFD it.--Robert EA Harvey (talk) 09:32, 13 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It is on the OS map as Austendike, but Gazetteer of Historic Lincolnshire has spellings of Austindyke or Assendyke indicating it is a hamlet of Moulton. Keith D (talk) 11:22, 13 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Agree with Robert. It may have been of notability in the past, but I can't find any evidence for this to make it even a stub. If necessary it could have a one line hamlet mention in Moulton. I would support a deletion. Here is another one - Talk:Garden Village, Lincolnshire. Acabashi (talk) 09:54, 24 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Bannered it up for now.Let's give it another year--Robert EA Harvey (talk) 07:43, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
OK, I am now convinced that Austendike is a place, once called Moulton Austendike, and a drainage feature. Oh and a road!
  • Geograph contributor Richard Croft has found the following:
Place names of Lincolnshire by EH Gooch 1945 says "AUSTENDYKE, SPALDING, Old Norse, austr, east. Eastern dike, embankment. This is a Roman Road, leading eastward from Spalding to the Moot Court at Moulton Austendyke, which is still in a good state of preservation"
Richard points out that the Roman attribution is likely to be a romanticisation.
  • The OS 50K mapping has it printed as though a place name.
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As Drainage:
Getting desperate - a foreign academic guessing at the etymology
Ambiguous - listed with other names that are moder roads:
So it is a place, probably once called Moulton Austendike and now called Austendike by the OS and by the South Holland bus-stop namers. And, if you google a little harder, by the census authourites for a hundred years (bored now with citations).
But I reckon it's natural home is a mention in the Civil Parish page - Moulton, Lincolnshire.
––Robert EA Harvey (talk) 21:55, 25 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ The Jurist , Vol 8. S. Sweet. 1845. p. 485. John wadeneu Newton of Austendike Moulton, Moulton - and John Newton of Moulton are listed differently
  2. ^ G. C. Caster (1894). Fenland Notes and Queries: A Quarterly Antiquarian Journal for the ... - Volume 2. p. 247. Retrieved 25 August 2013. commonly known as Queen's Bank, or Moulton Austendyke.
  3. ^ The Records of the Commissioners of Sewers in the Parts of Holland: 1547-1603, Volume 71. Lincoln Record Society,. 1977.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  4. ^ Andersson, Thorsten (1978). The Vikings: proceedings of the symposium of the Faculty of arts of Uppsala university, June 6-9, 1977. California university. p. 85.
  5. ^ Monasticon Anglicanum: A History of the Abbies and Other ..., Volume 4. 1849. Retrieved 25 August 2013. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)