Hogsthorpe Explained

Static Image Name:Hogsthorpe - St. Mary's Parish Church - geograph.org.uk - 1497419.jpg
Static Image Caption:Saint Mary's Church, Hogsthorpe
Country:England
Official Name:Hogsthorpe
Coordinates:53.2242°N 0.3013°W
Label Position:left
Population:908
Population Ref:(2011)[1]
Shire District:East Lindsey
Shire County:Lincolnshire
Region:East Midlands
Constituency Westminster:Boston and Skegness
Post Town:Skegness
Postcode District:PE24
Postcode Area:PE
Os Grid Reference:TF537721
London Distance Mi:120
London Direction:SSE

Hogsthorpe is a small village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately 2miles from the North Sea and Chapel St Leonards, and about 7miles north from Skegness. Through Hogsthorpe runs the A52, the main road connecting the village to the nearby resorts of Skegness, Mablethorpe and Ingoldmells.

The parish includes the hamlets of Slackholme and Authorpe Row.[2]

Hogsthorpe contains a church, a restaurant, two public houses, a small primary school and a village hall.

History

Hogsthorpe's church, dedicated to Saint Mary, is built in Early English style of limestone and greenstone, and is a Grade I Listed Building. It dates from the 12th century, and has a 12th-century tower, a 15th-century font and a pulpit from 1730. The chancel was rebuilt in 1870, and the church was restored in 1853 and 1910.

In 1885 Kelly's reported a Wesleyan and a Primitive Methodist chapel, corn mills and brickfields. Chief landowners included Baroness Willoughby de Eresby and Lord of the Manor Lieutenant Colonel Sir Nelson Rycroft bart of Kempshott Park. The parish had an area of 2870acres supporting the production of wheat, beans and oats, and an 1881 population of 719.[3]

The Wesleyan chapel was built in 1863, but closed in 1994 and was converted into flats in 1997.

The Saracens Head is a Grade II listed early 18th-century public house.

Built as a National School in 1857, Hogsthorpe school was the Hogsthorpe County Primary School between 1947 and 1999, and is now the Hogsthorpe Community Primary School.[4] [5]

The village was the birthplace of politician Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison.[6]

Population

Population of Hogsthorpe Civil Parish
Year1801181118211831184118511881189119011911192119311951196120012011
Population[7] 451515591698790832719684610590511531599494873908

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Parish population 2011. 18 August 2015. Office for National Statistics. Neighbourhood Statistics.
  2. Web site: Hogsthorpe. Vision of Britain. University of Portsmouth. 25 August 2011.
  3. Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull 1885, p. 476
  4. Web site: Lincs to the Past. Hogsthorpe School. Lincolnshire Archives. 7 June 2011.
  5. Web site: Hogsthorpe Community Primary School. Dept. For Education. 7 June 2011.
  6. Web site: Christopher Addison:Biography. Spartacus Educational. 23 October 2011. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20111026090736/http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/SPaddison.htm. 26 October 2011. dmy-all.
  7. Web site: Vision of Britain. 25 August 2011.