Holton le Moor
| Holton le Moor | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 St Luke's Church, Holton le Moor | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF080979 |
| Location: | 53°27’58"N, 0°22’23"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Market Rasen |
| Postcode: | LN7 |
| Dialling code: | 01673 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | West Lindsey |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Gainsborough |
Holton le Moor is a small village in the North Riding of Lindsey, the northern part of Lincolnshire.
Holton The village is on the B1434 road. The nearest towns are Market Rasen, six miles to the south and Caistor, three miles to the north-east. It was formerly served by Holton Le Moor railway station.
In the Domesday Book, account the village is written as "Hoctune". It was within the manor of Caistor, and before the Norman Conquest under the lordship of Earl Morcar. By 1086 the manor had fallen under the lordship of Ivo Taillebois and the King.[1]
In 1885, Kelly's Directory noted that the village was in the parish of Caistor, had an 1881 population of 178, and that chief agricultural production of the area was in wheat, barley, oats and turnips.[2]
Parish church
The parish church, St Luke, was re-built in 1854 by a George Place in an Early English Gothic style, consisting of a chancel, nave, north aisle, and a bell turret with two bells.[2] It was again partly rebuilt in 1926 by H. G. Gamble. The earlier parts of the church are ironstone, the doorway Norman style, and the stoup 13th century.[3]
The church is a Grade II listed building.[4]
There are memorials to the Dixon family, Lords of the Manor, painted wall decoration in the south chapel and stained glass windows from 1893.[2][4]
About the village
Holton Hall was built in 1785 for Thomas Dixon by a local builder, and is listed,[3][5] as are the hall's stables.[6]
Other listed structures include a farmhouse,[7] cottages[8] and a pigeoncote.[9] In 1964, Pevsner noted the school to the west of the church, built in 1913 by H. G. Gamble, and described it as "Nice, friendly, symmetrical, with large windows, and a steep pediment, decorated with rose branches".[3]
St Luke's infant and junior primary Church of England School was associated with the village church. It closed in the summer of 2006, the pupils being sent to attend other nearby village schools. The main school building is now owned by a Girl Guiding association, and the oldest building on the site, built in 1858, lies mostly unused.
The oldest remaining structure in the village, the Moot Hall, was often used by the school and is now occasionally used for functions.
Nowadays the farmland surrounding the area is used in the production of Sugar beet and root vegetables.
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References
- ↑ le Moor Holton le Moor in the Domesday Book
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull 1885, p. 482
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, 1964; 1989 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09620-0page 275
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 National Heritage List 1166017: Church of St Luke (Grade II listing)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1309110: Holton Hall (Grade II* listing)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1359790: Stables at Holton Hall (Grade II listing)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1063422: Broughton Farmhouse (Grade II listing)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1359809: Yewfield Farm Cottages at Yewfield Farm (Grade II listing)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1063463: Pigeoncote at Barkworth Farm (Grade II listing)
