Easton is a village and

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in the

South Kesteven South Kesteven is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in Lincolnshire, England, forming part of the traditional Kesteven division of the county. Its council is based in Grantham. The district also includes the towns of Bourne, ...

district of

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, England, almost north of

Colsterworth Colsterworth is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, less than half a mile (0.8 km) west of the A1 road (Great Britain), A1, about south of Grantham, and north-west of Stamford, Lincolnshire, ...

, and east of the

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History

The village has no church, but forms part of the North and South Stoke with Easton church parish, which contains the church of

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and

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Stoke Rochford Stoke Rochford is a small English village and civil parish south of Grantham in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire. The population at the time of the 2011 census was 230 (including Easton). It has two notable Grade I listed buildings: ...

, just inside Easton civil parish. The A1 within the parish was straightened when converted to a dual-carriageway in 1960. The village is still largely the size as it was at the time of the

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in 1086. There is a

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of Stoke Rochford and Easton.

Easton Hall

Sir Henry Cholmeley bought the manor in 1592; his direct descendant Sir Montague Cholmeley rebuilt the village in the early 19th century. Easton Hall (52°49'46.04"N 0°37'29.34"W) was built by Sir Henry Cholmeley, partly rebuilt in 1805, and enlarged in the Victorian period. It was damaged while used by the army during the Second World War and pulled down, other than the entrance hall, in 1951. The 12 acres of gardens were abandoned in 1951, but a major renovation project began in 2001, under the Cholmeley family, who still live in the village. As of 2024, the gardens attract 20,000 visitors a year. Andrew Alexander Watt, an

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distiller, lived here from 1922 to 1928.

Geography

The

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passes through the village. Just to its south, the river is crossed by the A1 inside the parish of

. Although a village with a population of 100 and technically a civil parish, in practice it is shared for administrative and religious purposes with

. The combined parish is one of the largest in area in South Kesteven, stretching along the B6403 (High Dike – ⁣

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) from the A1 to the

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bridge. There was a railway joining the East Central main line at the B6403 road bridge and following the east side of the B6403 to Woolsthorpe. Stoke Rochford is linked to the B6403 by Easton Lane. Easton civil parish stretches along the B6403 from the A1 to the junction of this road; it embraces the south part of Stoke Rochford village, including its parish church and post office. In the south-east of the parish is Easton Wood.

Cold store

Near the B6403 is Easton Cold Store, a frozen-vegetable processing factory owned by McCain Foods (GB) Ltd.Company page. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
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’s ''Buildings of England: Lincolnshire'' as the largest cold storage facility in Europe (1989), it was originally built for

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. In front of the vast sheds, the contrasting polygonal office building connected to a two-storey block with red pagoda-like projections of 1973-4 by Rex Critchlow are considered one of the best examples of industrial architecture in the county.

References

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External links

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Easton Walled Gardens websiteThe Easton Estate website

Statistics about Easton, South KestevenStoke Rochford and Easton Parish Council
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