Crowle Gas Works Based on information supplied by Avril Clarke (Turner) The gas works was situated on the corner of Windsor Road and Marsh Road (the extension of Cross Street). The site is now covered by a new building – Windsor Lodge. It was established in 1854 with a capital of £1800 in £10 shares. Avril’s father was the last manager […]
The entry for ‘Vermuyden, Cornelius’ in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 58 by Albert Frederick Pollard states that Sir Cornelius Vermuyden had a daughter, Elizabeth who married Sir Thomas Peneystone under the name of Elizabeth Fairmedow. This is not correct and is part of the ‘Fairmedow legend’ propounded when it was noticed over two centuries later that a ‘Sir Cornelius Pharmedo’ was […]
Coat of Arms of Sydney William Herbert Pierrepont, 3rd Earl Manvers (1825–1900). This is in a window at the back of the Church. The left hand side (dexter) of the crest is the Pierrepoint Family coat of arms and the right hand side (sinister) will be that of his wife, Georgine Jane Elizabeth Fanny de Franquetot, second daughter of Gustave, Duc de Coigny. Her coat of […]
are there any archaeologists in or around the axholme area im doing some research for a fiction book based on the pretext that the Saxons and angles were one of the first settlers on the east coast primarily around the axholme area and ive come across some information from around 380 – 450 ad which indicates that the land that was given to hengest and […]
By Bill Goldthorp England we think is a malaria free zone and the vector the anopheles mosquito does not breed here. Not so, Mr. Ross Kendall of the Archaeology Department of Durham University for his PH.D Thesis is proving that skeletal remains from Roman, Anglo- Saxon and early medieval periods show signs of suffering from malaria. Plasmodium Vivax, not the severe and fatal African […]
In 1628 the Manor of Crowle and number of other Manors were conveyed to the City of London by Charles I in satisfaction of two loans made to him by the Corporation, This was known as the Ditchfield grant. The following is the survey of Crowle carried out for the City of London Corporation by Robert Angell and now held in their archives. 1630 Survey of […]
The Bounders of Crowle Manor Today more and more people are riding walking and even running round the boundaries of the parish a practice that was required by Statute The common law right of parishioners to preamble their Parish Boundary raises the presumption that such use is by the public The Below is copy is from Abstracts of Stovin’s Manuscripts by Rev John […]