Category: History

Crowle memories World War 2
January 1, 1970

Memories of an air gunner

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

Drainage
January 1, 1970

The Place and River Names of West Lindsey

Crowle (British) 836 Croglea (Crowle, Worcesters.) : Birch (1) 583 871 Crogdene (now Croydon) : Birch (2) 146 1086 Crul Crule 31 fisheries : D. B., 82, 192-3 1130 Croilanda Abbas de Pipe, 84 1158-9 Croil . Pipe (1884) 65 1190 Crueil, Homines de. Crocil . Pipe (1) 86. 101 1202 Cruilland marisc Croilland . Oblata. 175, 183 1208 Cruil Rad de ‘ Plac., 67 […]