The 1822 Enclosure map for Crowle has street names marked on the map; Common Townside Road – now known as Windsor Road Bellamy’s Road – this was off Common Townside Road Broad Fleet Road – now known as Godnow Road Broad Fleet – is marked on the short section of the High Street between Fieldside and Potts Lane Back Lane – this is now known […]
According to “The Isle of Axholme – Its place-names and river-names, John K Johnstone, 1886.” Godney Bridge, near Crowle. Godn is a contracted form of the personal name Goodwin, and the suffix ey means and island, sometimes the water which surrounded the island. On old maps the area around Godnow is shown as Godknow – I guess the wild moorland would be an easy place […]
According t the following article, Justice Hall was built in 1728 by George Stovin – the antiquary and was so named because he was a magistrate – this has nothing to do with the Manor of Crowle. A search of possible sources provides an answer in “Lincolnshire notes and queries, Volume 4” published in 1896. This is available on-line at http://www.archive.org/stream/lincolnshirenot01sympgoog#page/n6/mode/2up Page 89/90 Lincolnshire Notes & Queries. […]
Modern Wharf Road, stretches from Godnow Road to Crowle Station. It was not always so, parts once had different names. Crowle Map Old Street Names. When I was a boy, 1933 to 1951, when I went to university. Mill Road was often referred to by the older residents as Mill Trod, to my mind much more picturesque than Mill Road. Fieldside was never referred to […]