The following is from Erica Taylor's History of Stanford School, Laceby - 1730-1780, Anthony Bainton's tenure.
Laceby, a village in North East Lincolnshire, straddles the Caistor to Grimsby Road at its crossing point with the Barton Street. Those villagers who believe in ley lines, point to a line running from Caborne to Pyewipe on the Humber bank, crossed at Laceby by a line running from Ulceby through several settlements to Covenham St Mary and parallel with the coast. This would give the meaning of Laceby as ‘settlement at the crossing point’. This village nestles at the foot of the first rise to the Lincolnshire Wolds close to the Welbeck Springs and its Anglo-Saxon village site.
Something of the importance of Laceby can be seen in the Church Warden’s book. In an entry dated: Ano Dni 1612 Maii XXXI
“Constables William Greene
William Burton
Received Due to the towne by the said constables
XIIs Vd.”
Laceby was regarded as a ‘towne’. It is therefore, fitting to find that Whitgift, later an Archbishop of Canterbury, had been Rector of Laceby during Queen Elizabeth’s reign. Laceby was important enough to be a step on the way. Today, however, Laceby is regarded as a dormitory village for the Humber bank.
Part of the history of Laceby is a Charitable Trust, instituted by Sarah Stanford, to fund a school in 1720. The first recorded school master for the Stanford Charity School took his oath in Lincoln in 1730. The first entry in the Trust Accountant’s book is dated 1727 and in 1728 the account showed £32 19s 5d. The expenses could have been those connected with building a school house. In 1951, a reporter from the Grimsby Evening Telegraph interviewed the head teacher, Richard Rowson,. In the subsequent article Rowson is quoted as saying that the “Stanford Charity School was built in 1725” but the Accounts book recorded 1730 as the date when Anthony Bainton was Schoolmaster and Francis Plumpton was the dame.
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