Throckenholt
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| Throckenholt | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 The Four Horseshoes Inn, Throckenholt | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF354094 |
| Location: | 52°39’56"N, 0°0’3"E |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Spalding |
| Postcode: | PE12 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | South Holland |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
South Holland and The Deepings |
Throckenholt is a village in Sutton St Edmund in Holland, the south-eastern part of Lincolnshire, close to the border of Cambridgeshire. It is about 16 miles south-east of Spalding, 14 miles west of Wisbech (Cambridgeshire) and 10 miles south of Holbeach.
The Museum of Technology, The History of Gadgets and Gizmos, formerly known as 'the Museum of Technology, The Great War and WWII', is in the village. It opened its doors in 2016.
Throckenholt Priory was sited here, it was a hermitage and chapel in existence from at least 1107 until the Dissolution in 1540 and was granted to Thorney Abbey by Nigel, Bishop of Ely.[1]
The name of Throckenholt was written as 'Trokenholt' in the 1240 Papal Rolls.[2]
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References
- ↑ National Monuments Record: No. 353387 – Throckenholt Priory
- ↑ Ekwall, Eilert, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 4th edition, 1960. ISBN 0198691033
