Cowbit
| Cowbit | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 Church of St Mary, Cowbit | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF260178 |
| Location: | 52°44’38"N, 0°8’3"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 1,220 (2011) |
| Post town: | Spalding |
| Postcode: | PE12 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | South Holland |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
South Holland and The Deepings |
Cowbit (locally pronounced Cubbit) is a village and parish in the Holland part of Lincolnshire. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,220.[1] It is situated three miles south of Spalding and five miles north of Crowland.
Cowbit falls within the drainage area of the Welland and Deepings Internal Drainage Board.
Cowbit Grade-I-listed Anglican parish church is dedicated to St Mary.[2] The church was built on a small scale in the 14th century by Prior de Moulton of Spalding. A chancel and Perpendicular tower were added by Bishop Russell of Lincoln in 1487. Restoration was carried out in 1882.[3] A Wesleyan chapel was built in 1842, and rebuilt in 1861.[4] To the south, on the road to the hamlet of Peak Hill, is a stone named after St Guthlac, being a boundary marker for the earlier lands of Crowland Abbey.[4]
The village contains a Grade-II-listed early-19th-century mill,[5] a Church of England primary school, public play area, village hall, a garage, and a village store.
On 16 October 2011 work was completed on a new bypass for the A1073 road,[6] which previously ran through the village. This new route has been re-designated to form part of the A16.
Cowbit previously had a railway station on Spalding to March line; the line is no longer in use.
Cowbit Wash lies to the west of the village, extends eight miles from north to south, and is nearly a mile broad.[4] Mainly arable land, it is a flood plain for the navigable River Welland, separated from Cowbit by an earth bank, Barrier Bank, that carries an unclassified road, the former A1073.[7] Previously Welland overflow regularly flooded the Wash, the water freezing-over during winter allowing for ice skating and skating championships. A relief channel (Coronation Channel) for the Welland at Spalding has made Cowbit Wash obsolete as a flood plain since the 1950s.
Since Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897 there has been a punt gun salute over Cowbit Wash every coronation and jubilee, concurrent with gun salutes in London, including the June 2012 Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II.[8][9][10]
References
- ↑ "Civil parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11122386&c=Cowbit&d=16&e=62&g=6447182&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1461677954244&enc=1. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1064482: Church of St Mary
- ↑ Cox, J. Charles (1916) Lincolnshire p. 107; Methuen & Co. Ltd
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull 1885, p. 369
- ↑ National Heritage List 1359258: Mill
- ↑ "A1073 - Spalding to Eye Improvement", Lincolnshire County Council. Retrieved 19 July 2011
- ↑ "Pumping Station, Cowbit Wash, Lincs", Geograph.org.uk. Retrieved 19 July 2011
- ↑ "History of Cowbit... So Far...". Cowbit Village Website. http://www.cowbitvillage.co.uk/history-of-cowbit/. Retrieved 9 August 2013.
- ↑ "Punt gun". HistorianBook. http://historianbook.com/punt-gun/. Retrieved 9 August 2013.
- ↑ Hodge, Jean (9 June 2012). "Wildfowlers bring out the big guns for celebration". Spalding Guardian. http://www.spaldingtoday.co.uk/news/community/features/wildfowlers-bring-out-the-big-guns-for-celebration-1-3916676. Retrieved 9 August 2013.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Cowbit) |
- "Cowbit", Genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 19 July 2011
- Cowbit School
- Cowbit Village Website