Talk:Austendike

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)

Does Austendyke exist?
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)
 * 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)
 * 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)
 * Bannered it up for now.Let's give it another year--Robert EA Harvey (talk) 07:43, 27 April 2013 (UTC)
 * 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.
 * As Drainage:
 * Getting desperate - a foreign academic guessing at the etymology
 * Ambiguous - listed with other names that are moder roads:
 * Getting desperate - a foreign academic guessing at the etymology
 * Ambiguous - listed with other names that are moder roads:
 * Ambiguous - listed with other names that are moder roads:
 * 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)