Easton is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, almost 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Colsterworth, and 1 mile (1.6 km) east of the A1 road.
| Easton | |
|---|---|
 Easton Walled Gardens | |
  Easton Location within Lincolnshire | |
| OS grid reference | SK940267 |
| • London | 90 mi (140 km) S |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | GRANTHAM |
| Postcode district | NG33 |
| Police | Lincolnshire |
| Fire | Lincolnshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
History
editThe village has no church, but forms part of the North and South Stoke with Easton church parish, which contains the church of St Andrew and St Mary at Stoke Rochford, just inside Easton civil parish. The A1 within the parish was straightened when converted to a dual-carriageway in 1960. The village is still largely the size as it was at the time of the Domesday Book in 1086.
There is a grouped parish council of Stoke Rochford and Easton.[1]
Easton Hall
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Sir Henry Cholmeley bought the manor in 1592; his direct descendant Sir Montague Cholmeley rebuilt the village in the early 19th century. Easton Hall (52°49'46.04"N 0°37'29.34"W) was built by Sir Henry Cholmeley, partly rebuilt in 1805, and enlarged in the Victorian period. It was damaged while used by the army during the Second World War and pulled down, other than the entrance hall, in 1951. The 12 acres of gardens were abandoned in 1951, but a major renovation project began in 2001,[2] under the Cholmeley family, who still live in the village. As of 2024, the gardens attract 20,000 visitors a year.[3][4]
Andrew Alexander Watt, an Anglo-Irish distiller, lived here from 1922 to 1928.[5][6]
Geography
editThe River Witham passes through the village.[7] Just to its south, the river is crossed by the A1 inside the parish of Colsterworth. Although a village with a population of 100 and technically a civil parish, in practice it is shared for administrative and religious purposes with Stoke Rochford. The combined parish is one of the largest in area in South Kesteven, stretching along the B6403 (High Dike – Ermine Street) from the A1 to the East Coast Main Line bridge.[citation needed]
There was a railway joining the East Central main line at the B6403 road bridge and following the east side of the B6403 to Woolsthorpe. Stoke Rochford is linked to the B6403 by Easton Lane. Easton civil parish stretches along the B6403 from the A1 to the junction of this road; it embraces the south part of Stoke Rochford village, including its parish church and post office.[8] In the south-east of the parish is Easton Wood.[9]
Cold store
editNear the B6403 is Easton Cold Store, a frozen-vegetable processing factory owned by McCain Foods (GB) Ltd.[10] Described in Nikolaus Pevsner’s Buildings of England: Lincolnshire as the largest cold storage facility in Europe (1989), it was originally built for Christian Salvesen.[11] In front of the vast sheds, the contrasting polygonal office building connected to a two-storey block with red pagoda-like projections of 1973-4 by Rex Critchlow are considered one of the best examples of industrial architecture in the county.[12]
See also
editReferences
edit- Citations
- ^ "Stoke Rochford and Easton Parish Council". Retrieved 21 October 2024.
- ^ "History". Easton Walled Gardens. Retrieved 28 August 2011.
- ^ "Secret garden gets Tudor makeover", BBC News, 13 July 2002. Retrieved 25 July 2011
- ^ Doughty, Eleanor (3 August 2024). "'Our estate attracts 20,000 visitors a year – even though it's been demolished'". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
- ^ http://www.derryjournal.com/news/the-folly-of-andrew-watt-1-2117238. Archived 27 February 2017 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Page 7036 | Supplement 33548, 1 November 1929 | London Gazette | the Gazette".
- ^ "Bridge over the Witham", Geograph.org.uk. Retrieved 25 July 2011
- ^ "St.Andrew & St.Mary's church, Stoke Rochford, Lincs", Geograph.org.uk. Retrieved 25 July 2011
- ^ Positioned on map. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
- ^ Company page. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
- ^ Pevsner 1989, p. 266.
- ^ Pevsner 1989, p. 87.
- Sources
- Pevsner, Nikolaus (1989). Buildings of England: Lincolnshire (2nd ed.). Penguin Books. ISBN 0140710272.
External links
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Media related to Easton, Lincolnshire at Wikimedia Commons- Easton Walled Gardens website
- The Easton Estate website [permanent dead link]
- Statistics about Easton, South Kesteven
- Stoke Rochford and Easton Parish Council
