Pepper Gowt Plot

Hamlet in Lincolnshire, England

Human settlement in England

Fishtoft

District

Boston

Shire county

Lincolnshire

Region

East Midlands

CountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townBostonPostcode districtPE21Dialling code01205PoliceLincolnshireFire Lincolnshire Ambulance East Midlands UK Parliament

Boston and Skegness

List of places: UK; England; Lincolnshire

53°00′08″N 0°03′07″W / 53.002092°N 0.051812°W / 53.002092; -0.051812

Pepper Gowt Plot, also known as Rowlands Marsh, was a hamlet and small tract of extra-parochial land and civil parish, created when the River Witham was straightened in the early 19th century, now in the parish of Fishtoft, in the Boston district, in the county of Lincolnshire, England. It lies about 2 miles (3 km) north of the town of Boston, and immediately south of Anton's Gowt.

It was created as a civil parish in 1858,^[1] when the principal land owner was John Rowland.^[2] On 1 April 1906 it was abolished and merged with Skirbeck.^[3]^[4] In 1901 the parish had a population of 13.^[5] In turn, Skirbeck civil parish was abolished in 1932 to enlarge the parishes of Boston and Fishtoft,^[6] Today the area is known as Witham Marsh.

References

^ "North Forty Foot Bank CP/ExP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
^ Kellys Directory for Lincolnshire (PDF). Kelly & Co. 1885. p. 400. Retrieved 19 July 2011.
^ "Boston Registration District". UKBMD. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
^ Kellys Directory for Lincolnshire (PDF). Kelly & Co. 1919. p. 77. Retrieved 19 July 2011.
^ "Population statistics Pepper Gowt Plot CP/ExP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
^ "Skirbeck". Vision of Britain. University of Portsmouth. Archived from the original on 17 September 2012. Retrieved 19 July 2011.