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not to be confused with Bottesford, Leicestershire
Bottesford
Stone church with a square tower. Unusually the windows in the nave are circular. The tower is on the left and dominates the picture. It has a crenellated flat top with stone pinnacles at each corner, narrow arched-top bell ports high up and very narrow slit windows lower down. The nave is receding left to right and is partly obscured by one of the two large yews that frame the picture. In shadow the porch can just be made out near the tower. The day is sunny and the sky mostly blue. The stonework of the church appears golden, similar to Cotswold stone. In the short grass of the foreground the top of a single gravestone can be seen.
St Peter's church, Bottesford
It is a bright February day, with some blue sky between rolling white clouds. A decent-sized stream, well filled with fast-moving water runs toward us down the middle of the picture. On eather side are wide, flat grassy banks. On the left is a footpath, and further left a stand of bare-branched silver birch, with a single evergreen spruce at our end of the plantation. On the right, in the immediate foreground, is a bare blackthorn bush. Behind that the right bank extends away as a field planted with winter wheat. The original photographer wrote:'Bottesford Beck. Looking east along Bottesford Beck, years ago it was heavily polluted with outflow from Scunthorpe steelworks, today it flows to the Trent much clearer.'
Bottesford Beck
The southern parish boundary
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Bottesford is a small town and civil parish in North Lincolnshire, England.[1]

The town is joined to southern Scunthorpe,[2] and is defined by the B1501 road to the north and Bottesford Beck to the south. The River Trent lies to the west, with a boundary line approximately along Grammar School Walk, Richmond Close and Winchester Way to the east. Bottesford parish includes the hamlet of Yaddlethorpe, and Bottesford Moor.

In the 2001 census, Bottesford's population was recorded as 11,177.[citation needed]

History and landmarks

Bottesford is written in Domesday as Budlesford,[3][4] and until the 20th century it was a small farming village.[5] Yaddlethorpe appeared in domesday as Laudltorp.[6]

The Grade I listed Anglican parish church is dedicated to St. Peter ad Vincula.[7] The church is Early English style and cruciform in plan, built on the site of an earlier Saxon church.[8] It was restored in 1870; during restoration were found two Saxon sundials that were incorporated into the south porch.[9][10] Queen Elizabeth II visited the parish on her Golden Jubilee tour in July 2002.[citation needed][dubious – discuss]

Local landmarks include Bottesford Beck, and Bottesford Preceptory where it is said that the Knight's Templar and later Knights of St John made a base.[11]

Amenities and schools

A flat-roofed temporary building,neatly finished in cream. A ramp for 'disabled access' leads to the door, and two cars are parked on the right. Prominent on the left a sign decorated with 'wrought' iron scrolls reads Bottesford town council, TEA POT HALL, pop-in room for the benefit of senior citizens
Tea Pot Hall
a meeting place for the elderly

There is a library[12] and medical centre[13] on Cambridge Avenue.

There are two Junior schools, Bottesford Junior,[14] and Leys Farm Junior School.[15]

The local secondary school, the Frederick Gough School,[16] opened in 1960 as Ashby Grammar School. It became Bottesford Grammar School, then Frederick Gough Grammar School named after the first chairman of the school governors. It became comprehensive in 1969 when it joined with Ashby Girls' Secondary School, a secondary modern school on Ashby High Street.[8] Other students travel to the nearby Melior Community College in Scunthorpe[17] which has special links to the Leys Farm junior school.[15]

The Ecclesiastical parish is Bottesford St Peters part of the Bottesford with Ashby Team Ministry of the Deanery of Manlake. The team vicar is The Revd Graham Lines.[18][19] Whilst the two methodist chapels recorded in 1872 have closed,[20] in 2002 a new Baptist church was opened in Chancel road, having been meeting in the Civic Hall since 1978.[21]

A civic hall is run by the Town Council for social events.[22] A sports hall stands adjacent to the football and cricket pitches in Birch Park.[23]

References

  1. ^ List of town councils in North Lincolnshire Bottesford is listed but has no separate web presence. Retrieved 2013-04-14
  2. ^ Map of Town and Parish boudaries in North Lincolnshire. Retrieved 2013-04-14
  3. ^ "Bottesford in the Domesday book". national archive. Retrieved 2013-04-13.
  4. ^ "Bottesford, domesday". Open domesday. 1086. Retrieved 2013-04-14.
  5. ^ "A Vision of Britain through Time". GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. 15th April 2013. p. History of Bottesford in North Lincolnshire. Retrieved 2013-04-14. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)Population 1891=298, 1921=315, 1951=1515. 1961=3120
  6. ^ "Yaddlethorpe, domesday". Open domesday. 1086. Retrieved 2013-04-14.
  7. ^ Historic England. "St Peter ad Vincula (1083014)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 30 June 2011.
  8. ^ a b "Bottesford", genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 30 June 2011
  9. ^ Cox, J. Charles (1916) Lincolnshire pp. 75-76; Methuen & Co. Ltd
  10. ^ Historic England. "Church of St Peter Ad Vincula (60792)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 2013-04-14.
  11. ^ Historic England. "Preceptary (60786)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 20 January 2010‎. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  12. ^ "Bottesford Library". North Lincolnshire Council. Retrieved 2013-04-14.
  13. ^ "Cambridge Medical Centre"; retrieved 30 June 2011
  14. ^ "Bottesford Junior school". Retrieved 2013-04-14.
  15. ^ a b "Leys Farm Junior School". Retrieved 2013-04-14.
  16. ^ "Frederick Gough school". Retrieved 20 July 2009‎. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  17. ^ "Melior community college". Retrieved 2013-04-14.
  18. ^ "Ecclesiastical parish details". Diocese of Lincoln. 2011. Retrieved 2013-04-14.
  19. ^ "Church web site". Bottesford with Ashby team ministry. 2013. Retrieved 2013-04-13.
  20. ^ Wilson, John Marius, ed. (1870–72). Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales. Retrieved 2013-04-14.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date format (link)
  21. ^ "History of the Baptist congregation". St Mark;s church. Retrieved 2013-04-14.
  22. ^ "Civic Hall". Lincolnshire county council. Retrieved 2013-04-14.
  23. ^ "Sports hall". North Lincolnshire council. 2011. Retrieved 2013-04-14.
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