Langrick Bridge
| Langrick Bridge | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Former Methodist Chapel at Langrick Bridge | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF265475 |
| Location: | 53°-0’37"N, 0°6’53"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Boston |
| Postcode: | PE22 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Boston |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Boston and Skegness |
Langrick Bridge is a village in Holland, the south-eastern part of Lincolnshire. The village is in Holland Fen, part of the Great Fen, five miles north-west of Holland's chief town, Boston, and twenty-four miles south-east of the county town, the City of Lincoln. The village stands at the southern end of the bridge of the same name which spans the River Witham, with some cottages on the north end in the parish of Langriville.
The bridge has moorings on both banks, the next nearest moorings otherwise being five miles upstream at Chapel Hill, and two miles downstream at Anton's Gowt.The B1192 Coningsby to Kirton road runs through the village.
To the north of the bridge is a secondhand car and repair business, a restaurant which was formerly the Ferry Boat public house, and a transport café on part of the site of the former Langrick railway station. Closest to the bridge is Witham House, a Grade II listed two-storey building, dating to the early 18th century with later additions.[1] To the south of the bridge on Ferry Lane and Langrick Road are detached and semi-detached houses, two farms, a fuel station, a shop selling boating equipment and food supplies, and a former Wesleyan Methodist chapel, built of red brick, with a datestone inscribed with '1868'.[2]
History
Before the bridge was built in 1909, the crossing was by chain ferry, giving the settlement the name Langrick Ferry or Langret Ferry,[3][4] sometimes also seen partly as in the parish of Langriville.[5] A 1723 map by William Stukeley shows the ferry over a "more meandering route than at present". An 1824 Ordnance Survey map shows Langrick Ferry as a settlement covering both banks of the Witham, whose course defined parish and settlement boundaries. By 1828, the Witham had been canalized and straightened upstream and downstream of the ferry, although settlement boundaries followed the old course of the river. Construction plans for a bridge at Langrick Ferry were prepared in 1906.[6]
In 1848 Langrick Ferry was an extra-parochial area described as being a small hamlet with twenty-two people, and in the soke and poor law union of Horncastle, and by 1862 was a civil parish.[7][8]
In 1855 Kelly's Directory recorded Langrick Ferry as a hamlet of 'Langrick Ville' "on the line of the Boston and Lincoln steamers", and in the extra-parochial district of Perry Corner in the @Kesteven wapentake of @Kirton. It had a population of 76, and included a Methodist chapel. Traders listed included six farmers, one of whom was also a surveyor, a blacksmith, a shopkeeper, and the occupant of the 'Ferry Boat Inn'.[9] In 1885, under an entry for 'Langriville (or Wildmoor)' parish, the chapel at Langrick Ferry was again mentioned. The occupant of the 'Boat Inn' was listed, as was an auctioneer & estate agent.[10] A post and telegraph office was listed in directories after 1905, the year when the occupant of the Ferry Boat Inn was also a brewer, and a corn merchant lived at Witham House.[11]
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References
- ↑ National Heritage List 1307150: Witham House, Langriville (Grade II listing)
- ↑ "Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Langrick Road, Langrick Bridge, Holland Fen with Brothertoft", Lincolnshire HER, Heritage Gateway. Retrieved 22 January 2019
- ↑ London Gazette, 17 Nov 1845 p.5202
- ↑ Wheeler, William Henry, (1896) A History of the Fens of South Lincolnshire, Being a Description of the Rivers Witham and Welland and their Estuary, and an Account of the Reclamation, Drainage, and Enclosure of the Fens Adjacent Thereto, p.227. Reprint Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Library Collection - Technology (2013). ISBN 9781107338227
- ↑ Walter, James, Conway; (1908), A History of Horncastle from the earliest Period to the Present Time, p.246. ISBN 1447461835
- ↑ "Langriville Parish", Archaeological Desk Top Assessment of the Pipeline between Langrick Bridge and Risegate, Lincolnshire (2016), part 5, Archaeological Project Services for Lincolnshire County Council
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel: 'A Topographical Dictionary of England' (S. Lewis and Co., 1848) pp25-28 ISBN 978-0-8063-1508-9
- ↑ Langrick Ferry ExP/CP on Vision of Britain
- ↑ Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1855, p.139
- ↑ Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull 1885, pp.509, 510
- ↑ Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1905, pp.342, 343; 1919, pp.329, 346