Risegate
| Risegate | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 Gosberton railway station in Risegate | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF218301 |
| Location: | 52°51’17"N, 0°11’32"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Spalding |
| Postcode: | PE11 |
| Dialling code: | 01775 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | South Holland |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
South Holland and The Deepings |
Risegate is a village in Holland, the south-eastern part of Lincolnshire. It is found thirty miles south-east of the county town, the City of Lincoln, five miles north of the nearest large town, Spalding, and two miles west of Gosberton, to whose parish it is allocated.
Risegate and the village of Gosberton Clough to the west are conjoined as a linear settlement two miles long on the east to west B1397 road which runs along the south side of Risegate Eau (drain). Within Risegate the B1497 is named 'Risegate Road', and in Gosberton Clough, 'Clough Road', the villages separated at a bridge over the Risegate Eau at the junction with Chesboule Lane, running north, and Beach Lane, running south. The B1397 and the village is mirrored at the north of Risegate Eau by the parallel 'Siltside' (road). The head of the Risegate Eau is three miles to the west, at the South Forty-Foot Drain, from where it flows through the village, and reaches the River Welland at the Risegate Outfall sluice in Algarkirk Marsh five and a half miles to the east.
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About the village
Amenities, facilities and businesses include, on Risegate Road, a truck sales & service centre, a portable toilet company, a haulage company depot, a memorial masonry contractor, a wrought ironwork company,
A pub, the Duke of York is at the western end of the village, and in the village are the Five Bells and the Black Horse.
The site of the former Gosberton railway station, opened in 1882 and closed in 1961, today used for light industry and storage, is 180 yards inside the village from the west, where a level crossing intersects the Peterborough–Lincoln line railway line[1]
Adjacent to the Black Horse is The Marjoram Hall community centre.
Churches
The Church of England parish church is St Gilbert & St Hugh's at Gosberton Clough.
There is a Methodist Church in the village, previously a United Free Methodist Church built in 1886.[2]
History
In 1872 Risegate was described as a hamlet of Gosberton, and partly in the parish of Surfleet. It contained Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. There was a free school, founded 1681 by Robert Marjoram, who endowed it with just over 13 acres of land, rented out for £46 yearly, this to pay for a schoolmaster to teach poor children of "Rysgate and about the Fen Ends in the parishes of Gosberton and Surfleet". By 1872 the school had fallen down but another was about to be rebuilt. Occupations listed at the time included sixteen farmers and a market gardener, a miller, a blacksmith, a wheelwright, a harness maker, two shopkeepers, one of whom was also a draper, and the other a flour dealer. There were public house licensed victuallers of the 'Duke of York', the 'Old Crane', 'The Ship' and the 'Five Bells'. The landlord of the 'Five Bells' was also a potato dealer, and that of 'The ship' was also a shopkeeper and a baker.[3]
Sights of the village
In the west of the village, to the north of the B1397, is the Grade II* listed Cressy Hall, a three-storey brick house in Flemish bond Originally a moated mediæval manor house, it had been rebuilt in 1695 by Sir Henry Heron, father to Henry Heron (MP), but burnt down. The present house dates to 1794.[4][5]
On Risegate road, 500 yards south-west of Cressy Hall, is the Grade II red brick four-stage tower of the 19th-century Risegate tower corn mill, originally of four sails.[6][7] Also on Risegate road, to the east of the junction with Beach Lane, is a Grade II 18th-century single-storey cottage of red brick.[8]
To the south of Risegate Road, on Hedgefield Hurn, is Panton House, of L-plan with two-storeys, three-bays with slate tile roof and sash windows, and which dates to about 1830.[9] At a mile and a half south-east of Risegate, on Cheal Road, and at the side of a farm, is Cheal House with its associated listings of a fence, gate and wall piers. The L-plan house, of two storeys and three bays with sash windows, is of red brick laid in Flemish bond, and with a slate roof. The gate and fence railings are of cast iron, either end of which are brick piers supporting finials representing acorns. The house, which was altered in about 1840, dates to about 1800.[10]
On Siltside is twelve-foot high marble war memorial of Celtic cross style, dedicated to the dead of the First and Second World Wars. It stands at the east of Siltside where it turns into Windmill Lane which runs to Westhorpe further north.[11] To the west of the war memorial is a Grade II two-storey, three-bay house of red brick laid in Flemish bond, dating to 1804,[12]
At the east of the village, and 500 yards north on Chesboule Lane, is the Grade II Chesspool House with attached cottage, dating to the 18th century, with early and late 19th-century additions. The house is two-storey and of red brick, laid in Flemish bond, and two bays; the cottage is of three bays.[13] Beside the house and cottage is a listed 18th-century red brick barn of four bays and a pantile roof.[14]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Risegate) |
- Clough & Risegate Community Primary School
- Gosberton Parish Council
- Information on Gosberton from GENUKI
References
- ↑ Daniels, G; Dench, L. A. (1980); 'Passengers No More' (Littlehampton Book Services Ltd, 1980) ISBN 0711009511
- ↑ Risegate Methodist Church: Heritage Gateway
- ↑ White’s History, Gazeteer and Directory of Lincolnshire]] (1872), p.795, 796
- ↑ National Heritage List 1064460: Cressy Hall (Grade II* listing)
- ↑ "HERON, Henry (c.1675-1730), of Cressy Hall, Lincs.". History of Parliament Online (1690-1715). http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/heron-henry-1675-1730. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1166366: Mill at Healey and Dobney Limited (Grade II listing)
- ↑ "Risegate Mill, Gosberton", Mills Archive. Retrieved 6 February 2019
- ↑ National Heritage List 1064462: The Cottage to the Rear of 28 Risegate Road (Grade II listing)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1359289: Panton House (Grade II listing)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1359288: Cheal House Screen Gate and Wall Piers (Grade II listing)
- ↑ Gosberton Clough: Lincs to the Past
- ↑ National Heritage List 1359292: 52, Siltside (Grade II listing)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1166359: Chesspool House
- ↑ National Heritage List 1064461: Barn at Chesspool House (Grade II listing)