Shepeau Stow
| Shepeau Stow | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 Tower mill, Shepeau Stow | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF306122 |
| Location: | 52°41’32"N, 0°4’5"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Spalding |
| Postcode: | PE12 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | South Holland |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
South Holland and The Deepings |
Shepeau Stow is a hamlet in the fenland of Holland, the south-east part of Lincolnshire, in the Great Fen on the B1166 Hull's Drove road. Shepeau Stow is seven miles south-east of Spalding and four miles east from Crowland.
The hamlet's school is Shepeau Stow Primary School on Dowsdale Bank.[1]
History
The B1166 road from Shepeau Stow to Holbeach Drove to the east is the line of a 1241 fen drainage bank, the third of three constructed between Whaplode Drove to the north and Shepeau Stow. The resulting fen-drained common land was enclosed in 1819 under an Inclosure Act.[2]
In 19th-century directories the hamlet was named 'Shephaystow' and 'Shephay Stowe'. In 1855 there existed a mill with miller, and the Red Last public house. By 1872 the mill housed a corn miller who was also a baker. There was a pub called the Mill Inn run by a victualler who was also a brewer and shopkeeper at the same premises. There was a blacksmith, and a shoemaker who also ran a beerhouse. 1885 listings included a publican at the Red Last Inn, a coal dealer, a farmer, a blacksmith, and a wind miller. By 1933 listed were two farmers, a saddler, a carpenter, and the publican at the Red Last.
Within the hamlet was a Methodist chapel with seating for 300, while the surrounding area produced potatoes, wheat and other cereals, and "large quantities of geese fatted for the London and other markets."[3][4][5][6] The Red Last Inn was a brewery pub, extant in 1949, but now converted to a private dwelling.[7]
At the east of the hamlet on Drove Road are the Grade II listed late 18th-century remains of the tower mill.[8] The mill was working with four sails until the 1920s, but by the middle of the 1930s it had lost its roof and become a ruin.[9]
In 2015 late 19th-century 'T' plan barn buildings of hand-made brick, "good examples of local rural vernacular architecture," were the subject of an historic building survey before a proposed redevelopment at Carter's Farm on Oxcroft Bank. The survey showed various stages of original building, which included a hay loft and wood partitions, with stable block and cattle shed with hayracks and feed troughs.[10]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Shepeau Stow) |
- Shepeau Stow Primary School. Retrieved 17 March 2016
References
- ↑ "Shepeau Stow Primary School", Directgov. Retrieved 21 March 2016
- ↑ "A Brief History of Whaplode Drove", Whaplode Parish Council
- ↑ Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1855, p.249
- ↑ White’s History, Gazetteer and Directory of Lincolnshire 1872, p.786
- ↑ Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull 1885, p.705
- ↑ Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1933, pp.603,604
- ↑ "The Red Last Inn Shepeau Stow", Chain Bridge Forge Museum. Retrieved 17 March 2016
- ↑ National Heritage List 1147706: Windmill, Whaplode (Grade II listing)
- ↑ "Shepeau Stow Mill, Whaplode", Lincolnshire County Council. Retrieved 17 March 2016
- ↑ "Farm Buildings at Carter's Farm, Oxcroft Bank, Shepeau Stow", Lincs to the Past, Reference: MLI86934. Retrieved 17 March 2016
