Eastville, Lincolnshire
| Eastville | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 parish church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF403568 |
| Location: | 53°5’27"N, 0°5’38"E |
| Data | |
| Population: | 257 (2011) |
| Post town: | Boston |
| Postcode: | PE22 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | East Lindsey |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Boston and Skegness |
Eastville, a fenland village in Lindsey, the northern part of Lincolnshire, about nine miles north-east of Boston and six miles south of Spilsby.
Eastville was an extra-parochial allotment of the East Fen, which was drained between 1802 and 1813, and constituted as a township by Act of Parliament passed in 1812.[1] It was organized as a civil parish in 1866.
Church
There was once a parish church, St Paul's, built at the same time as the parsonage, house and school.[1] Authorized under the Fens Churches Act of 1816, St Paul was built in the Victorian Gothic style and consecrated in 1840. The church closed in 2007 because of structural problems and ground shrinkage making it unstable, and though a plan was made to demolish the church, because there are no funds for restoration, in October 2013, the judge of the Consistory Court urged the diocese to study alternatives for saving the church, as he did not agree that it should be demolished.[2]
About the village
The first Eastville school was condemned by HM Inspector of Schools. A new school was built on the same site by the Eastville School Board (formed in 1895), and opened in 1897 as the Eastville Board School. By 1981, when it finally closed, it was known as the Eastville County Primary School.[3]
East Ville railway station[4] served the hamlet from 1848 to 1964; it was on the East Lincolnshire section of the Great Northern Railway.[5][6] It opened in 1848, originally named East Ville & New Leake, and changed its name to East Ville in 1952. This is one of those occasional stations that the railway companies insisted on a slightly different name from that of the village it served: the two words can be seen on the signal box in this 1971 view. The village was always Eastville locally.
On 11 September 1961, East Ville was one of 25 rural stations in Lincolnshire that lost its passenger trains, but goods trains continued to call until 1964. Trains between Boston and Skegness still pass the site but the signal box and traditional crossing gates have gone.
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Historical Gazetteer & Directory of Lincolnshire". 1856. p. 778. http://www.historicaldirectories.org/. Retrieved April 15, 2011.
- ↑ "Church is saved from demolition". Boston Standard. 23 October 2013. http://www.bostonstandard.co.uk/news/local/church-is-saved-from-demolition-1-5615746. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
- ↑ "Eastville County Primary School". Lincs to the Past. Lincolnshire Archives. http://www.lincstothepast.com/EASTVILLE-COUNTY-PRIMARY-SCHOOL/716796.record?pt=S. Retrieved 18 May 2011.
- ↑ Conolly, W. Philip (2004) [1958]. British Railways Pre-Grouping Atlas and Gazetteer. Hersham, Surrey: Ian Allan Ltd. pp. 17 & section C3. ISBN 978-0-7110-0320-0.
- ↑ National Monuments Record: No. 507002 – East Ville Station
- ↑ National Monuments Record: No. 1365390 – East Lincolnshire Railway
