The White Hart – Market Place Red Lion – North Street Lock Stock & Barrel – Cross Street Cross Keys – Market Place George & Dragon – High Street The Market Tavern – Market Place Mason’s Arms – High Street St Oswald – North Street Darby & Joan – High Street New Trent Inn – Ealand South Yorkshire Hotel – Ealand Ship – Crowle Wharf
There were four separate mills on Mill Road and a further mill on Godknow Road. Godknow Road Mill Millers; 1891 Peter Cranidge, Occupation, Miller, 1891 – Godknow Road, Crowle, Lincolnshire, (1891 Census) Place: South Mill, Crowle, Lincolnshire, England Creator: photographer : Muggeridge, Donald William, Mr., b.1918 Date: 31.5.1947 Description: Black and white negative and print made from it of South Mill, a […]
MANOR OF CROULE. FTER descending the downland lawns, and passing through the fertile plain called Belton Field, the traveller enters a similar tract of land, where the town of Crul, or Croule, stands close to one of the branches of the southern Don. The word Crul is probably a corruption of the Dutch word Krol, which signifies a shed or small habitation of any kind. […]
In mediaeval times the manor was the nucleus of English rural life. At the Norman conquest all the land in England was owned by the monarch who then granted the use of it to earls, barons, and others, in return for military service. The lord of the manor had both economic and judicial powers. Regular courts were held to uphold these rights. The courts baron, […]
An incident that took place in 1877 in Crowle caught the attention of many newspapers and was reported far and wide. The following is quoted form a New Zealand newspaper. As can be seen from the news clips from the Times it may not have been quite such a clear cut case of selling ones wife! Selling- a wife.— An “extraordinary occurrence took place […]
From Stonehouse’s History and Topography of the Isle of Axholme. Published 1839
Crowle has two charters granted to hold markets and fairs. The first was granted in 1305 by Edward 1st. This Charter permitted the Abbot and Conventof Selby, then the Lords of the Manor of Crowle, to hold a weekly market on Wednesdayand an annual fair on the vigil, feast and the morrow of St Oswald (5 th August). This was toreplace a fair and market […]
Pig potatoes. The small potatoes would be scooped up and taken to the fold yard. Every farm had a yardman who looked after the cows, pigs, chickens and other livestock In the farm building where the pig potatoes were stored would be a large copper where the potatoes would be boiled before being fed to the pigs. Boiled in their jackets they were lovely flowery, […]
Based at Sandtoft airfield this gunner remembers cycling into Crowle and Belton. In Crowle he was befriended by Pidds the Butchers. http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/91/a4104091.shtml