Fulstow
| Fulstow | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 Church of St Lawrence, Fulstow | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF326973 |
| Location: | 53°27’22"N, 0°0’14"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 522 (2011) |
| Post town: | Louth |
| Postcode: | LN11 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | East Lindsey |
Fulstow is a marsh village in Lindsey, the northern part of Lincolnshire, about five miles inland of the North Sea coats. It is found six miles north of Louth and eight miles south of Grimsby. It has a population of approximately 550.
The Lincolnshire Wolds Railway, a short heritage railway, has its southern terminus a mile and a half west the village. A mile and a half east of Fulstow is the Louth Canal
Parish church
The parish church in Fulstow is the Church of St Lawrence. It is a Grade II listed building.[1] It originates from the early 13th century and is in the Early English style.[2]
The Parish of Fulstow is part of the Fotherby Group of the Deanery of Louthesk in the Diocese of Lincoln.
History
Fulstow is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as "Fuglestow".[3][4] The name means "Bird (fowl) place".
Fulstow was once referred to as "Britain's most lawless village" in the Times news paper in the 1700's due to its history of drunken violence and self-policing in its secluded geographical location.
In 1885 Kelly's Directory recorded the existence of three village chapels: Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Reformers. Agriculture centred on the growing of wheat, barley, oats and turnips.[2]
About the village
The village is scattered around the "30 foot" contour road, which joins Fulstow to the neighbouring villages of Covenham and Alvingham to the south and Tetney to the north. Fulstow is on the Greenwich Meridian. The fields about have fresh water springs.[3][5]
A village hall was built in 1986 and is used for community functions.
There were once two public houses in the village, the Lord Nelson and the Cross Keys, but the Lord Nelson closed in 1969. The post office and general store was still operating until 2010, but was described in 2012 as "closed and derelict". The post office is now part of the Cross Keys public house.[6][7]
The village primary school is the Fulstow Academy.[8]
Outside links
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- "The Greenwich Meridian", Thegreenwichmeridian.org. Retrieved 25 June 2013
References
- ↑ National Heritage List 1063110: Church of St Lawrence (Grade II listing)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull 1885, p. 402
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Fulstow". Visitoruk.com. http://www.visitoruk.com/Cleethorpes/fulstow-C592-V24761.html.
- ↑ Fulstow in the Domesday Book
- ↑ "Fulstow". Itraveluk.co.uk. http://www.itraveluk.co.uk/maps/england/5719/lincolnshire/fulstow.html. Retrieved 23 May 2013.
- ↑ "Fulstow Post Office facility set for return - in pub". Grimsby Telegraph. http://www.thisisgrimsby.co.uk/Fulstow-Post-Office-facility-set-return-pub/story-13852871-detail/story.html. Retrieved 23 May 2013.
- ↑ "New pub service is first-class". Grimsby Telegraph. 16 December 2011. http://www.thisisgrimsby.co.uk/New-pub-service-class/story-14155629-detail/story.html. Retrieved 23 May 2013.
- ↑ "Fulstow community primary school". Department of Education. http://www.education.gov.uk/cgi-bin/schools/performance/archive/school_10.pl?Mode=Z&No=9252153&Type=P&Begin=b2&Num=pC71&Phase=p&Year=10&Base=p. Retrieved 23 May 2013.
- Lincolnshire Federation of Women's Institutes (19 Mar 1990). The Lincolnshire Village Book. Villages of Britain. Countryside Books. ISBN 978-1853060779.