Anton's Gowt
| Anton's Gowt | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 Anton's Gowt | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF300475 |
| Location: | 53°-0’33"N, 0°3’48"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Boston |
| Postcode: | PE22 |
| Dialling code: | 01205 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | East Lindsey |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Boston and Skegness |
Anton's Gowt is a hamlet in Lindsey, the northern part of Lincolnshire. It is found about two miles north-west of the nearest market town, the port of Boston (in Holland). It stands where two fen drains join a canalised section of the River Witham, and developed around a lock where the drains join the river.
History
Anton's Gowt is in an area once known as Wildmore Fen.
It is believed that the lock joining the River Witham here, and from it the hamlet, were named after Sir Anthony Thomas, one of a group of people who helped drain the Witham Fens from 1631 onwards. The word 'Gowt' is on old term for "A water-pipe under the ground. A sewer. A flood-gate, through which the marsh-water runs from the reens into the sea."[1]
A Primitive Methodist chapel[2] was built by the Doughty family in 1852, but is no longer in evidence. Its centenary was held in June 1952, in the carpenter's shop of the Burn family, and the service was conducted by a Mr H. Doughty of Lincoln who was 95 years old. The chapel closed in 1964, when it still had 18 Sunday school scholars.[3]
A loop line of the Great Northern Railway (from Peterborough to Bawtry) once ran along the north bank of the River Witham, passing by Anton's Gowt Lock. Today the route of the line is a cycle path to Boston.
Community
Anton's Gowt is at the junction of the River Witham and the Frith Bank Drain (part of the Witham Navigable Drains: Anton's Gowt Lock provides access between these two waterways.
A cycle path along the River Witham to Boston passes Anton's Gowt Lock.[4] The hamlet contains a public house, a pet food supplier, dog kennels, and an auto salvage firm.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Anton's Gowt) |
- "Anton’s Gowt Lock taken from footbridge at by Lockkeepers cottage", Langriville Parish Council. Retrieved 22 November 2013
References
- ↑ John Hobson Matthews (1905): Cardiff Records: volume 5 - Chapter XIII., pp. 557-598: 'A Glossary of obscure, obsolete, technical and non-English words and phrases which occur in the foregoing pages'
- ↑ "Anton's Gowt Primitive Methodist Chapel", The National Archives
- ↑ The Lincolnshire Village Book, Lincolnshire Federation of Women's Institutes; Countryside Books (2005) ISBN 1-85306-077-1
- ↑ "Sports and leisure facilities", Boston Borough Council (web archive). Retrieved 22 November 2013