| Country: | England |
| Static Image Name: | St.Peter's church, Bottesford - geograph.org.uk - 235539.jpg |
| Static Image Alt: | 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. |
| Static Image Caption: | St Peter's Church, Bottesford |
| Static Image 2 Name: | Bottesford Beck - geograph.org.uk - 123560.jpg |
| Static Image 2 Alt: | 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.' |
| Static Image 2 Caption: | Bottesford Beck The southern parish boundary |
| Coordinates: | 53.5521°N -0.6714°W |
| Official Name: | Bottesford |
| Population: | 11,038 |
| Population Ref: | (2011) |
| Region: | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| Post Town: | Scunthorpe |
| Postcode District: | DN16, DN17 |
| Postcode Area: | DN |
| Os Grid Reference: | SE895079 |
| London Distance Mi: | 145 |
| London Direction: | S |
Bottesford is a town in North Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, England.[1]
Historically a village, Bottesford forms a contiguous urban area of Scunthorpe.[2] In the 2001 Census, Bottesford's population was recorded as 11,171, falling to 11,038 at the 2011 census.[3] The town is directly south of Scunthorpe, west of Brigg and north of Gainsborough and Kirton in Lindsey.
Bottesford is written in Domesday as "Budlesford",[4] [5] and until the 20th century it was a small farming village.[6] Yaddlethorpe appears in Domesday as "Laudltorp".[7]
The Grade I listed Anglican parish church is dedicated to St. Peter ad Vincula. 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]
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]
Until their disbandment in 1312, the Knights Templar were major landowners on the higher lands of Lincolnshire, where they had a number of preceptories on property which provided income, while Temple Bruer was an estate on the Lincoln Heath, believed to have been used also for military training.[12] The preceptories from which the Lincolnshire properties were managed were:[13]
There is a library[14] and medical centre[15] on Cambridge Avenue.
There are two junior schools, Bottesford Junior,[16] and Leys Farm Junior School.[17] There is also one primary school, Holme Valley Primary, on Timberland.
The local secondary school, the Frederick Gough School,[18] 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 Academy in Scunthorpe[19] which has special links to the Leys Farm junior school.[17]
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.[20] [21] Whilst the two Methodist chapels recorded in 1872 have closed,[22] in 2002 a new Baptist church was opened in Chancel Road, having been meeting in the Civic Hall since 1978.[23]
A civic hall is run by the town council for social events.[24] A sports hall stands adjacent to the football and cricket pitches in Birch Park.[25]