Hogsthorpe
| Hogsthorpe | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 Saint Mary's Church, Hogsthorpe | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF537721 |
| Location: | 53°13’27"N, 0°18’5"E |
| Data | |
| Population: | 908 (2011) |
| Post town: | Skegness |
| Postcode: | PE24 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | East Lindsey |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Louth and Horncastle |
Hogsthorpe is a small village in Lindsey, the northern part of Lincolnshire. It is about two miles from the North Sea and Chapel St Leonards, and about seven miles north of Skegness. Through Hogsthorpe runs the A52, the main road connecting the village to the nearby resorts of Skegness, Mablethorpe and Ingoldmells.
The parish includes the hamlets of Slackholme and Authorpe Row.[1]
Hogsthorpe contains a church, a restaurant, two public houses, a small primary school and a village hall.
Churches
Hogsthorpe's parish church, St Mary, is built in the Early English Gothic style, of limestone and greenstone and dates from the 12th century. It has a 12th-century Bell tower|tower, a 15th-century font and a pulpit from 1730. The chancel was rebuilt in 1870, and the church was restored in 1853 and 1910.
The church is a Grade I Listed Building[2]
History and heritage
In 1885 Kelly's reported a Wesleyan and a Primitive Methodist chapel, corn mills and brickfields. Chief landowners included Baroness Willoughby de Eresby and lord of the manor Lieutenant Colonel Sir Nelson Rycroft Baronet|bart of Kempshott Park. The parish had an area of 2,870 acres supporting the production of wheat, beans and oats, and an 1881 population of 719.[3]
The Wesleyan chapel was built in 1863, but closed in 1994 and was converted into flats in 1997.[4]
The Saracens Head is a Grade II listed early 18th-century public house.[5]
Built as a National School in 1857, Hogsthorpe school was the Hogsthorpe County Primary School between 1947 and 1999, and is now the Hogsthorpe Community Primary School.[6]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Hogsthorpe) |
References
- ↑ Hogsthorpe on Vision of Britain
- ↑ National Heritage List 1063615: St Marys, Hogsthorpe
- ↑ Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull 1885, p. 476
- ↑ National Monuments Record: No. 1378634 – Methodist Chapel, Hogsthorpe
- ↑ National Heritage List 1359708: Saracens Head, Hogsthorpe (Grade II listing)
- ↑ Hogsthorpe School: Lincs to the Past
