Kirton, Lincolnshire
Kirton | ||
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Shire county | ||
Region | ||
Country | England | |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
Post town | BOSTON | |
Postcode district | PE20 | |
Dialling code | 01205 | |
Police | Lincolnshire | |
Fire | Lincolnshire | |
Ambulance | East Midlands | |
UK Parliament | ||
Kirton or Kirton in Holland is an English village and
History
The
Before the local-government changes of the late 20th century, the parish came under
The 1885 Kelly's Directory recorded a Kirton railway station on the Great Northern Railway line between Boston and Spalding line. The station closed in 1961.
There existed in the 19th century
Church
The
Grammar school
In 1624, Thomas (later Sir Thomas) Middlecott was empowered by a Private Act of Parliament to found a Free Grammar School for teaching the Latin and Greek languages and providing English commercial and agricultural education to children from the parishes of Kirton, Sutterton, Algarkirk and Fosdyke. By 1835, the school had 40 pupils, some attending free and some paying fees. The Master (headmaster) appointed in 1773, Rev. Charles Wildbore (c. 1736–1802), and later his son by the same name (1767–1842), were later accused of diverting surplus income from the school's endowments for their own use and failing to keep up educational standards. This culminated in a parliamentary report, and ultimately a restructuring of the school management in 1851. By 1885, William Cochran was Master and a new school house had been built next to his house. Under a scheme of the Endowed School Act, amended in 1898, the school ranked as a "second-grade" Grammar School.[4][9][10][11]
In the 1830s the village gained a girls' school for 14
The village now has a secondary modern school: Thomas Middlecott Academy.
The Old King's Head
Geography
Kirton is on the main
Kirton Meres
The parish contained the ancient manor of Kirton Meres, the seat of Roger de Kirton (d. 1383), alias de Kirketon / Roger de Meres / Meeres), a Justice of the Common Pleas (1371–1380).[13] The manor house (later known as "Orme Hall"[14]) was demolished in 1818 but the arched gatehouse (Porter's Lodge, built of brick, guard room, and chambers over it, with stone dressings, windows, archway, door-ways, and copings, surmounted by highly pitched step gables, with 15 sculpted heraldic shields, some now held by the Spalding Gentlemen's Society, Broad Street, Spalding, Lincs) survived until 1925 on the south side of the Willington Road, one mile west of the village of Kirton. Another of this family resident at Kirton Meres was the churchman Francis Meres (1565-1647).[15]
Local governance
Local governance of the village was reorganised on 1 April 1974, as a result of the Local Government Act 1972. Kirton parish forms its own electoral ward.
Kirton falls within the drainage area of the Black Sluice
Research centre
The former Kirton Research Centre was nearby. Ownership of the 120-acre (0.49 km2) centre for horticultural research was transferred from the
Notable people
In order of birth:
- Francis Meres (1565/1566 – 1647), churchman and author[18]
- Cook's second voyage.
- Dame Sarah Swift (1854 – 1937), born in Kirton Skeldyke, set up the Royal College of Nursing.
- The East Yorkshire Regimentwho received the Victoria Cross in 1917 and was killed a year later, came from Allandale, Kirton.
- Oliver "Ollie" Ryan (born 1985), footballer, attended Kirton Primary School.
See also
- UK company law
References
- ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 21 May 2016.
- ^ "Kirton" Archived 28 July 2012 at archive.today, Domesday Map. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
- ^ "Documents Online: Kirton, Lincolnshire", Folio: 367v, Great Domesday Book; The National Archives. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
- ^ a b Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull 1885, pp. 504–505.
- ^ "Timeline History of Boston". Visitoruk.com. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
- ^ St Peter & St Paul's church geograph.org.uk; retrieved 23 April 2011.
- ^ St Peter & St Paul's church, Algakirk, Lincs geograph.org.uk; retrieved 23 April 2011.
- ^ The Church of St Mary and St Nicolas, Spalding. Retrieved 23 April 2011.
- ^ a b Cox, J. Charles (1916); Lincolnshire, p. 187; Methuen & Co. Ltd. Retrieved 23 April 2011.
- ^ Report of the commissioners appointed in pursuance of an act of Parliament made and passed in the 5th and 6th years of King William the 4th, c. 71, intituled, "an act for appointing commissioners to continue the inquiries concerning charities in England and Wales, until the first day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven"; P. P. 1839 [194] 32 – Part IV, 38.
- ^ ISBN 1144191092.
- ^ "The Old King's Head gets a new lease of Life", heritagelincolnshire.org. Accessed 3 December 2022.
- ^ Sainty, John, The Judges of England 1272 -1990: a list of judges of the superior courts, Oxford, 1993, p. 66; Foss, Judges of England: "Roger de Meres was of a Lincolnshire family, established at Kirketon in the district of Holland"; Edward Deacon, The descent of the family of Deacon of Elstowe and London, with some genealogical, biographical and topographical notes, and sketches of allied families including Reynes of Clifton, and Meres of Kirton, p. 18 [1]
- ^ Earliest mention of "Orme Hall" in Marrat's "History of Lincolnshire", 1814.
- ^ Kirton, Jonathan G., The Ruin at Kirton, 2013 Article by Colonel C. T. J. Moore, "Lincolnshire Notes and Queries", Vol. III, (1893), Item 140, on pp. 243 and 244; "Notes and Queries", 8th Series, Volume XII, July to December 1897, p. 47, 17 July 1897; "Oxford Journals", "Notes and Queries", 9th Series, Volume IV, July to December, 1899, p. 229 (dated 16 September 1899)
- ^ "Black Sluice IDB". blacksluiceidb.gov.uk. Retrieved 3 December 2022.
- ^ The Kirton Research Centre, University of Warwick.
- ^ "Meares, Francis (MRS584F)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
External links
- Parish council
- Kirton News
- Kirton Brass Band
- Sea Scouts
- Kirton Primary School
- Middlecott School
- Kirton Town Hall.