History
January 1, 1970

Crowle Councils

Local Board formed 11th August under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1858 Crowle Urban District Council formed in 1894. This image is of the last Urban District Council. The Council Meeting Room at that time was in the former Congregational Church (Now a joinery workshop). This picture was taken behind St Norbert’s Priory. Crowle became part of the Isle of Axholme Rural District […]

History
January 1, 1970

Medieval Fairs and Markets in Crowle

CROWLE. 1334 Subsidy £75.69. Market (Charter) Wednesday; granted 1 May 1305, by King Edward I to Abbot and Chapter of Selby. This grant was made in lieu of a market at the manor of Garthorpe, Lincolnshire (q.v.) previously granted by King Edward I to the Abbot and Chapter of Selby. on 10 Feb 1441, King Henry VI granted the Abbot and Chapter of Selby that […]

Bill Goldthorp History
January 1, 1970

Gervii (Fen Dwellers) – submitted by Bill Goldthorp

I am proud to admit being a 50% Gervi by inheritance and a born and bred Gervi until the age of 18 when I went to University. At this time immigrants into the Isle were rare. It probably accounts for my bizarre sense of humour which is constantly getting me into trouble. So here goes lets get into trouble again. For the benefit of newcomers […]

Brickworks
January 1, 1970

History of Crowle Brickworks

Crowle Brick and Tile Works Crowle Brickworks was established around 1880 by George Robinson, adjacent to his brewery to the north of the railway and canal. As can be seen the clay pits were connected tothe brickworks by a small tramway which was initially operated by horses. The works had a large brick kiln and were mechanised. The reverse of the brick has the Clayton […]

Peat Industry
January 1, 1970

Peat Working

British Peat Moss Litter Company This Company was formed in 1896, an amalgam of the Hatfield Chase Peat Moss Litter Company and four others, to extract and process peat on the Hatfield and Thorne Moors. The Company had works at Moorends, Medge Hall, Hatfield Moors, Crowle Moors, Swinefleet and Macclesfield. Bog bodies. The Celts, prior to the Romans were known to execute or sacrifice people […]

Railway
January 1, 1970

Crowle Railways

Crowle still has its own Railway Station, though this is actually in Ealand, about a mile to the south of Crowle. The station is located on the Doncaster to Cleethorpes Railway line. At one time there was another railway line that ran North-South through the centre of Crowle. This was the Isle of Axholme Light railway and ran from Haxey Junction in the South to […]

St Oswald's Parish Church
January 1, 1970

St Oswald Parish Church

There was a church in Crowle at the time of the Domesday survey in 1066. It is likely that this structure was was a simple wooden structure with a rush roof. Geoffrey de Wirce, who was the first Norman Lord of the Isle of Axholme gave a quantity of land in Crowle to the Abbey of Saint Germains at Selby. The original stone church was […]

History
January 1, 1970

Derivation of the name Crowle

A number of alternatives have been proposed for the derivation of the name Crowle: an old British word Croc meaning a winding river the Dutch word Krul which means a small settlement Old English river-name crull, a word related to the Middle Dutch krul or ‘curled hair’, and meaning a winding river or stream. The English Place Names Society provides the following derivation; Crowle Originally […]

Manor of Crowle
January 1, 1970

History of the Manor of Crowle

From Read's History of the Isle of Axholme. 1858. THE MANOR Was given at the Conquest to Geoffrey de Wirce. He held it but for a short time, but during that time he made a grant of an hundredum of land to the Abbey of St. Germains, which was founded by King William the Conqueror, “ Ut pro uobis monachus uns semper in ecclesia hebeatur, […]

St Norbert's RC Church
January 1, 1970

St Norbert’s Roman Catholic Church

Church website: http://stnorbertscrowle.org.uk The catholic chuch dedicated to St Norbert and the blessed sacrement was built in 1872 by M. E. Hadfield & Son. Between 1872 and 1983 there was also a Priory attached to the church. It was staffed by confreres from Tongerlo Abbey, Belgium. Catholic Life Flourished (From an article in the Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph, Special Edition, 2 November 1999. by Frank Sykes) The […]