Shepeau Stow is a hamlet in the

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, England. It is at the north-east edge of

Whaplode __NOTOC__ Whaplode is a village and civil parish in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. It is just west of the Prime Meridian. The parish includes the village of Whaplode Drove, and the hamlets of Shepeau Stow, Dowsdale, Whapl ...

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, where it adjoins

Crowland Crowland (modern usage) or Croyland (medieval era name and the one still in ecclesiastical use; cf. la, Croilandia) is a town in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated between Peterborough and Spalding. Crowland c ...

civil parish, and on the

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Hull's Drove road. Shepeau Stow is south-east from Spalding and east from Crowland. The hamlet's school is Shepeau Stow Primary School on Dowsdale Bank. In the 2012 latest

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report, the school received an overall Grade 2 (Good), quality rating.

History

The B1166 road from Shepeau Stow to Holbeach Drove to the east is the line of a 1241 fen drainage bank, the third of three constructed between Whaplode Drove to the north and Shepeau Stow. The resulting fen-drained common land was

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in 1819 under

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In 19th-century directories the hamlet was named 'Shephaystow' and 'Shephay Stowe'. In 1855 there existed a mill with miller, and the Red Last

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. By 1872 the mill housed a corn miller who was also a baker. There was a pub called the Mill Inn run by a victualler who was also a brewer and shopkeeper at the same premises. There was a blacksmith, and a shoemaker who also ran a

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. 1885 listings included a publican at the Red Last Inn, a coal dealer, a farmer, a blacksmith, and a wind miller. By 1933 listed were two farmers, a saddler, a carpenter, and the publican at the Red Last. Within the hamlet was a

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chapel with seating for 300, while the surrounding area produced potatoes, wheat and other cereals, and "large quantities of geese fatted for the London and other markets."''

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of Lincolnshire'' 1855, p.249''Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull'' 1885, p.705''Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire'' 1933, pp.603,604 The Red Last Inn was a brewery pub, extant in 1949, but now converted to a private dwelling. At the east of the hamlet on Drove Road are the Grade II

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late 18th-century remains of the

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. The mill was working with four sails until the 1920s, but by the middle of the 1930s it had lost its roof and become a ruin. In 2015 late 19th-century 'T' plan barn buildings of hand made brick, "good examples of local rural vernacular architecture," were the subject of an historic building survey before a proposed redevelopment at Carter's Farm on Oxcroft Bank. The survey showed various stages of original building, which included a hay loft and wood partitions, with stable block and cattle shed with hayracks and feed troughs."Farm Buildings at Carter's Farm, Oxcroft Bank, Shepeau Stow"
Lincs to the Past, Reference: MLI86934. Retrieved 17 March 2016

References

External links

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Shepeau Stow Primary School
Retrieved 17 March 2016
"Shepeau Stow"
Ordnance Survey map of extent of hamlet; South East Lincolnshire Joint Strategic Planning Committee. Retrieved 17 March 2016 {{Authority control Hamlets in Lincolnshire South Holland, Lincolnshire