Croft, Lincolnshire
| Croft | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 Church of All Saints, Croft | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF509615 |
| Location: | 53°7’47"N, 0°15’15"E |
| Data | |
| Population: | 851 (2011) |
| Post town: | Skegness |
| Postcode: | PE24 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | East Lindsey |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Boston and Skegness |
Croft is a small village in the Candleshoe Wapentake of Lindsey, the northern part of Lincolnshire. The village is about two miles north-east of Wainfleet, and four miles south-west of Skegness. A little to the south-east of the village is Gibraltar Point, the low, sandy headland where the North Sea coast turns to form the Wash.
Croft is listed in the 1086 Domesday Book with 15 households, 120 acres of meadow and a salthouse.[1]
The parish church, All Saints, dates from the 14th century. It is built of greenstone. Monuments inside the church include kneeling alabaster effigies to Sir Valentine Browne (d.1600) and Elizabeth (Monson) his wife, with their fifteen children in relief below. Its inscription states that Browne was "Treasurer and Vittleter of Barwicke and dyed (about 1600) Treasurer of Ireland".[2] A related alabaster monument is to Valentine Browne's son John Browne (d.1614), and his wife Cicely (Kirkman). A further (ashlar) monument is to William Bonde (d.1559), erected by his son Nicholas, President of Magdalen College, Oxford. In the floor of the south aisle and chantry is a late 13th or early 14th century brass, the half effigy of a knight in banded mail.[2] The church is a Grade I listed building.[3] A tablet on the south side of the tower refers a restoration of 1656; the church was again restored in 1857.[2]
There is a tower windmill in the village (which is Grade II listed). The mill was built in 1814 and raised in 1859 from four to seven storeys, and in 1949 reduced again to four. It is built in tarred red brick with brick battlements. No milling machinery survives inside.[4]
The Old Chequers Inn is a Grade II listed public house dating from the 18th century.[5]
Within the parish of Croft are two railway stations, one being the extant Havenhouse railway station,[6] the other the now closed Seacroft railway station.[7]
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References
- ↑ Croft, Lincolnshire in the Domesday Book
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Cox, J. Charles (1916) Lincolnshire p. 109; Methuen & Co. Ltd
- ↑ National Heritage List 1223215: Church of All Saints (Grade I listing)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1223035: Windmill: Wainfleet, Lincolnshire (Grade II listing)
- ↑ "Old Chequers Inn, Croft". British Listed Buildings. http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-418575-old-chequer-s-inn-croft. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
- ↑ National Monuments Record: No. 507018 – Havenhouse Railway Station
- ↑ National Monuments Record: No. 507069 – Seacroft Railway Station
