Gosberton Clough is a village in the

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Gosberton Gosberton is a village and civil parish in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated south-west of Boston, north of Spalding and north-west of Holbeach. The parish includes the villages of Gosberton Clough and Rise ...

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, England. It is south-east from the city and

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Risegate Risegate is a village in the civil parish of Gosberton and the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. It is south-east from the city and county town of Lincoln, north from the nearest large town of Spalding, and west-southwest fro ...

to the east are conjoined as a

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on the east to west

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which runs along the south side of Risegate Eau (drain). Within Gosberton Clough the B1397 is named 'Clough Road', and in Risegate, 'Risegate Road', the villages separated at a bridge over the Risegate Eau at the junction with Chesboule Lane, running north, and Beach Lane, running south. The B1397 and the village is mirrored at the north of Risegate Eau by the parallel 'Siltside' (road). The Risegate Eau starts west at the

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, then flows through the village, and reaches the

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at the Risegate Outfall sluice in

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Marsh, to the east. The north to south Hammond Beck intersects Risegate Eau at the west of the village, alongside of which is Beck Bank (road). Amenities, facilities and businesses include, on Clough Rd, Gosberton Clough & Risegate County Primary School (built in 1878 for 200 children), and a small business park with tyre sales and timber sales outlets, a transport company, and a warehousing facility. A further transport company for mini-buses, taxis and

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is at the west of the village. There is also the Parish Church of St Gilbert and St Hugh with its church hall. On Siltside are two village farms, a motorsports' shop, and, at the west end of Siltside where the road turns north to become Beck Bank, the Centenary

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Church. Gosberton Clough is connected by bus to Gosberton,

Quadring Quadring is a small village and civil parish in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire. It lies on the A152, north-east of Gosberton, and 2 miles south-east of Donington. The village includes the community of Barholme to its south-west ...

and Spalding. In 1872 Gosberton Clough was described as containing a mission room, which was built in 1858 and enlarged in 1861. The only trade listed at the time was a

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.'' White’s History, Gazeteer and Directory of Lincolnshire'' (1872), p.795, 796

Landmarks

The Church of St Gilbert and St Hugh, dating to 1902, was built by William Bucknall and

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, and was Grade II

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in 1988, being described as a

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. Its construction is of

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on a brick plinth. It comprises a nave with

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, a chancel, vestry and south porch. A restoration of the church was begun in 2001. In the church are four gilded wooden angels, carved and donated by Belgian refugees during World War I. Their restoration, by Will Kirk, was shown in an episode of the

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'' in April 2020. At the south of Gosberton Clough on Beck Bank is 'Bank House', of two-storey and five

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, Grade II listed as c.1830 with some 20th-century alterations. At the time of listing in 1988 it was an old people's home. A further Grade II property is Rigbolt House on Beck Bank south from the village. The house dates to the 16th century, with alterations in the 18th, 19th and 20th. The current house is mid-

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of two-storeys and three bays in T-plan, and of red brick laid in

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, with slate roof. The house was formerly a moated cell of the

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; Harris, John: ''The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire'', Penguin (1964); revised by Nicholas Antram (1989),

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, p. 312. Rigbolt House is today part of a farm; in the 19th-century it was part of a Gosberton hamlet of Rigbolt.

References

External links

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Clough & Risegate Community Primary school

Gosberton Parish Council

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