History again

One of the things I missed about the UK when I was in NZ was the history, the age of the buildings, the lives that had been lived etc. well blip today my blip is of St Peter's church, Barton.
I headed to a primary school in Barton today for a days supply but they had cocked up and forgotten to tell me that the work was cancelled! So I headed for a look round.

The church lies immediately east of the remains of a near circular enclosure which contained a hall. This was originally surrounded by a ditch and timber palisade known to date to before 900. An early pagan Saxon cemetery, believed to be linked with this enclosure and dated to the first half of the seventh century, was discovered at Castledyke, south of the church, and was used to bury high-status individuals. In 669 Saint Chad founded a monastery in neighbouring Barrow-upon-Humber. An Anglo-Saxon charter dated 971 suggests that Barton became a grange attached to this monastery. The earliest graves on the site of the church date from the ninth century, around one hundred years after the southerly cemetery was abandoned. At this stage, it appears to have been reserved for burials associated with the hall and there may have been an associated chapel, although no trace of this remains. This was Barton's first Christian cemetery.