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Langrick
Langrick is a small village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is in the civil parish of Langriville, and on the B1192 road, north-west from Boston. The village lies in the Lincolnshire Fens, and less than east from the River Witham. History The name Langrick appears to come from "Long Creek" and is at the very southern edge of Wildmore Fen, in an area which was once the manor of Armtree, in the parish of Coningsby. It was once the site of a hermitage belonging to Kirkstead Abbey. When Langrick and Langriville were enclosed in 1812 there was not a single house existing. Langrick's importance was that it was the site of a ferry crossing over the River Witham, reputedly built by Robert Dymoke. The river was straightened in 1833. A steel bridge, still in use, was built in the southern neighbouring settlement of Langrick Ferry in 1909, replacing a previous ferry over the Witham. Church Saint Margaret of Scotland Church was built in 1828, probably b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Langrick Bridge
Langrick Bridge is a village in the civil parish of Holland Fen with Brothertoft in the Boston (borough), Borough of Boston, Lincolnshire, England. The village is in the The Fens, Lincolnshire Fens, north-west of Boston, Lincolnshire, Boston and south-east of Lincoln, England, Lincoln. It is at the southern side of the bridge of the same name which spans the River Witham. At the north side of the bridge the settlement is in the civil parish of Langriville. The southern boundary of the village of Langrick is north from the bridge.Extracted froGrid Reference Finder The bridge has moorings on both banks, the next nearest moorings being upstream at Dogdyke, Chapel Hill, and downstream at Anton's Gowt. The B1192 Coningsby to Kirton, Lincolnshire, Kirton road runs through the settlement, which at the north of the bridge is Main Road, and at the south is Langrick Road that has an immediate junction with Ferry Lane which runs west to the North Forty Foot Bank. It was formerly serv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Langrick Railway Station
Langrick railway station was a station in Langrick, Lincolnshire, England, on the line between Boston and Lincoln. History Langrick station opened on 17 October 1848. It closed, along with the Lincolnshire Loop Line on 17 June 1963. The station had two brick platforms immediately east of the level crossing on Ferry Road. The main building stood at right angles to the platform, with the booking office behind the station masters house which led to a waiting room facing onto the "up" platform. The signal box was sited at the east end of the station. Accidents and incidents *On 8 March 1937, a passenger train, hauled by Ex- GNR Class H4 2-6-0 No. 126, was derailed due to the poor condition of the track. Site Langrick Station Cafe now occupies what was the ticket office . The possibility that the building now standing is a much-converted original station office . The building does however stand on the same axis as the original, on Ferry Lane, in Langrick. The Water Rail Way is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Langriville
Langriville is a civil parish in Lincolnshire, England, about north west of the town of Boston on the B1192, and on the banks of the River Witham. History Langriville was created a township in 1812 near a ferry over the River Witham called Langrick Ferry (now Langrick Bridge) from which the parish has taken its name. The parish consists of the portion of Wildmore Fen allotted to the Earl of Stamford & Warrington in lieu of his manorial rights over Armtree and Wildmore fens. It was said by Pishey Thompson in his ''History and Antiquities of Boston'', that the name probably came from "Long Creek" as it was the largest and longest creek in the fen, where about a mile north of the present village of Langrick there was a sluice erected in 1543. The area was formerly belonging to Kirkstead Abbey as is evidenced by references made by the Boston Corporation records claiming rights on Armtree Fen in the early 17th Century. According to William Marrat's ''History of Lincolnshire'', ther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Witham
The River Witham is a river almost entirely in the county of Lincolnshire in the east of England. It rises south of Grantham close to South Witham at , passes through the centre of Grantham (where it may be closely followed using the Riverside Walk through Wyndham Park and Queen Elizabeth Park), passes Lincoln at and at Boston, , flows into The Haven, a tidal arm of The Wash, near RSPB Frampton Marsh. The name "Witham" seems to be extremely old and of unknown origin.; see Old European hydronymy Archaeological and documentary evidence shows the importance of the Witham as a navigable river from the Iron Age onwards. From Roman times it was navigable to Lincoln, from where the Fossdyke was constructed to link it to the River Trent. The mouth of the river moved in 1014 following severe flooding, and Boston became important as a port. From 1142 onwards, sluices were constructed to prevent flooding by the sea, and this culminated in the Great Sluice, which was constructed in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brothertoft
Brothertoft is a village in Lincolnshire, England, about northwest from the market town of Boston. It is part of the civil parish of Holland Fen with Brothertoft . History Evidence has been found that the area now known as Brothertoft was known to the Romano-British people. The site of a possible building was uncovered at Cannons Farm in Punchbowl Lane between 1957 and 1959. A denarius of Septimius Severus was found along with pottery, potsherds, animal bones, ditches and hollows. A Roman vase was dug up about 1970 at a separate site in Brothertoft by Mr Epton. The hamlet is first recorded some time after 1350 and before 1540. Brothertoft hamlet is mentioned in the Diocesan Return of 1563 (Deanery of Holland, parish of Kirton,) as having ten households. William Marrat, a local historian writing in 1814, noted that the traditional belief for the origins of the village name lay in a grant being awarded to two brothers in order that they could "inclose" (that is, separate and cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wildmore
Wildmore is a civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately north-west from the town of Boston and south from Horncastle. There is no village called Wildmore; the village of New York lies within the parish boundaries as does the hamlet of Haven Bank. History The name Wildmore comes from the surrounding Wildmore Fen. It appears from a manuscript now in the British Museum, that it belonged after the Norman Conquest to the baronies of Bolingbroke, Horncastle and Scrivelsby. William Romara, who held Bolingbroke, gave his portion to Kirkstead Abbey during the reign of King Stephen. Henry I afforested the whole of the fenland area and these continued to be the Kings hunting grounds until 1230 in the reign of Henry III. Henry II gave Horncastle to Gerbald Skalls, Scrivelsby to Robert Marmion and Kirkstead Abbey the Hermitage of Wildmore. Skalls and Marmion gave the monks of Kirkstead right of common pasture in Wildmore. B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirton Holme
Kirton Holme is a village in Lincolnshire, England. It is situated within Kirton civil parish, and approximately west from the town of Boston. Kirton Holme church, Christ Church, is part of the Brothertoft Group also known as 'Five in the Fen', which also includes: * St Gilbert of Sempringham, Brothertoft * St Margaret of Scotland, Langrick * All Saints, Holland Fen * St Peter, Wildmore The village County Primary School was erected in 1879 after the formation of the Kirton School Board, but closed in 1968. Kirton Holme Golf Club A golf club is a club used to hit a golf ball in a game of golf. Each club is composed of a shaft with a grip and a club head. Wood (golf), Woods are mainly used for long-distance fairway or tee shots; iron (golf), irons, the most versatile class ... is a nine-hole golf course, established in 1992. References Villages in Lincolnshire Borough of Boston Kirton, Lincolnshire {{Lincolnshire-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holland Fen
Holland Fen is a settlement in the Borough of Boston (borough), Boston, Lincolnshire, England. It is approximately north-west of the market town of Boston, Lincolnshire, Boston, and less than west of the River Witham. History Holland Fen has been known as the Haute Huntre, or Eight Hundred Fen. In 1720 Earl Fitzwilliam decided to drain the Holland Fen, having been frustrated by the local Commissioners of Sewers. He built the North Forty Foot Drain, which emptied by Lodowicks Gowt into the River Witham above Grand Sluice. The North Forty Foot was subsequently diverted to the South Forty Foot Drain at Cooks Lock and from there to Boston Haven through Black Sluice. The Haute Huntre was drained and enclosure, enclosed in 1767. Holland Fen was an ecclesiastical parish created in 1812 and abolished in 1948. It is now part of the Holland Fen with Brothertoft parish. Holland Fen consists of: *Holland Fen *Ferry Corner Plot *River Bottom *North Forty Foot Bank *Hedgehog Bridge *To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeptha Pacey
Jeptha Pacey (died 1862) was an architect, surveyor and building contractor working in Boston in Lincolnshire. Pacey was working as an ''architect'' at 10 Witham Place in Boston in 1826. Works *Boston Assembly Rooms 1819-1820. The design of these buildings may be based partly on designs submitted earlier to Boston Corporation by the London architect William Atkinson. The building has a pedimented front with a canted first floor bay supported on Tuscan columns with a lattice balcony. Tall windows light a big assembly room. In 1826 White records the Assembly Rooms as having been built in 1819-20. They were over the poultry house and butter market). The rooms formed a ''handsome elevation, containing a suite of elegant and capacious assembly and banqueting rooms''. Churches Five of six of churches built as a result of the Fens Chapels Act of 1816 have been attributed to Jeptha Pacey by Nikolaus Pevsner. These churches are at Carrington (1816), Wildmore, Langrick, Midville a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston, Lincolnshire
Boston is a market town and inland port in the borough of the same name in the county of Lincolnshire, England. Boston is north of London, north-east of Peterborough, east of Nottingham, south-east of Lincoln, south-southeast of Hull and north-west of Norwich. Boston is the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Boston local government district. The town had a population of 35,124 at the 2001 census, while the borough had a population of 66,900 at the ONS mid-2015 estimates. Boston's most notable landmark is St Botolph's Church ("The Stump"), the largest parish church in England, which is visible from miles away across the flat lands of Lincolnshire. Residents of Boston are known as Bostonians. Emigrants from Boston named several other settlements around the world after the town, most notably Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. Name The name "Boston" is said to be a contraction of "Saint Botolph's town", "stone", or "'" (Old English, Old Norse an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fens
The Fens, also known as the , in eastern England are a naturally marshy region supporting a rich ecology and numerous species. Most of the fens were drained centuries ago, resulting in a flat, dry, low-lying agricultural region supported by a system of drainage channels and man-made rivers ( dykes and drains) and automated pumping stations. There have been unintended consequences to this reclamation, as the land level has continued to sink and the dykes have been built higher to protect it from flooding. Fen is the local term for an individual area of marshland or former marshland. It also designates the type of marsh typical of the area, which has neutral or alkaline water and relatively large quantities of dissolved minerals, but few other plant nutrients. The Fens are a National Character Area, based on their landscape, biodiversity, geodiversity and economic activity. The Fens lie inland of the Wash, and are an area of nearly in Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, and Norfol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Non-metropolitan District
Non-metropolitan districts, or colloquially "shire districts", are a type of local government district in England. As created, they are sub-divisions of non-metropolitan counties (colloquially ''shire counties'') in a two-tier arrangement. Non-metropolitan districts with borough status are known as boroughs, able to appoint a mayor and refer to itself as a borough council. Non-metropolitan districts Non-metropolitan districts are subdivisions of English non-metropolitan counties which have a two-tier structure of local government. Most non-metropolitan counties have a county council and several districts, each with a borough or district council. In these cases local government functions are divided between county and district councils, to the level where they can be practised most efficiently: *Borough/district councils are responsible for local planning and building control, local roads, council housing, environmental health, markets and fairs, refuse collection and recyclin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
