Scothern
| Scothern | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 Church of St Germain, Scothern | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF034774 |
| Location: | 53°17’3"N, 0°26’59"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 860 (2011) |
| Post town: | Lincoln |
| Postcode: | LN2 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | West Lindsey |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Gainsborough |
Scothern is a small village in Lindsey, the northern part of Lincolnshire, sitting six miles north-east of the county town, the City of Lincoln. It is a place of some 900 inhabitants.
Neighbouring villages, Sudbrooke, Dunholme, Nettleham and Welton, have been redeveloped over recent years, with the addition of new housing estates. Scothern, however, remains substantially unchanged, the only development other than the odd infill house over the last 35 years being the Juniper Drive/Alders development of around 35 houses in the early 1990s.
Parish church
The parish church, on Church Street, is St Germain's. @ It is a Grade II* listed building.[1]
Scothern is a parish in the Diocese of Lincoln.
There is a village war memorial, dedicated to the soldiers from the village who died in the two World Wars.
History
Scothern can trace its name at least as far back as the fifteenth century, when it was listed in church records as Sconethorne, an early reference to the local scone, made from local wheat flour and saffron. Up to the mid seventeenth century an annual festival took place on the village green to celebrate the scone, and Scothern's then links with the saffron growing areas of Essex, (notably Saffron Walden). Since that time, which coincides with the time at which the Marfleet family (from whom the original Saffron recipe derived) left the area, following the great famine of 1624, the festival has ceased to be observed. A crocus symbol can still be seen high up in the tower of the church.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Scothern) |
References
- ↑ National Heritage List 1064122: Church of St Germain (Grade II* listing)
