Cowbit

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Cowbit
Lincolnshire
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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

  1. "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. 
  2. National Heritage List 1064482: Church of St Mary
  3. Cox, J. Charles (1916) Lincolnshire p. 107; Methuen & Co. Ltd
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull 1885, p. 369
  5. National Heritage List 1359258: Mill
  6. "A1073 - Spalding to Eye Improvement", Lincolnshire County Council. Retrieved 19 July 2011
  7. "Pumping Station, Cowbit Wash, Lincs", Geograph.org.uk. Retrieved 19 July 2011
  8. "History of Cowbit... So Far...". Cowbit Village Website. http://www.cowbitvillage.co.uk/history-of-cowbit/. Retrieved 9 August 2013. 
  9. "Punt gun". HistorianBook. http://historianbook.com/punt-gun/. Retrieved 9 August 2013. 
  10. 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. 

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