Sturton by Stow

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Sturton by Stow
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Sturton by Stow
Location within Lincolnshire
Population1,369 (2011)
OS grid reference SK890806
•  London 125 mi (201 km)  S
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Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Lincoln
Postcode district LN1
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53°18′54″N0°39′56″W / 53.314873°N 0.665476°W / 53.314873; -0.665476

Sturton by Stow is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish was 1,369 at the 2011 census. [1]

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History

The village is situated on the north-south B1241 and east–west A1500 Tillbridge Road (a Roman road). Nearby to the north is Stow. Sturton falls within the ecclesiastical parish of Stow, consequently the parish church of Sturton is Stow Minster. The Church of England maintained a mission church in Sturton, a brick building dedicated to St Hugh and designed by John Loughborough Pearson. The building was sold in January 2022 and is now in private ownership. The nearest churches are now Stow Minster, St Botolph's Church, Saxilby and St. Margaret of Antioch Church in Marton.

Visits

Education

There is a primary school on School Lane.

Former secondary school

Planning permission for the secondary school was obtained in September 1958. Saxilby had been looked at too, as a site for the secondary modern school. [5]

Construction began in late 1959. The Epworth secondary school was built at the same time. The school was planned to open in January 1961, but it took longer, so was planned to open in April 1961. [6] The school opened in September 1961. The school would be officially opened on Friday 27 October 1961 by David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles, the Conservative Minister of Education. [7] [8]

The school cost £95,000 for 450 children from 27 villages - Gate Burton, Kexby, Marton, Willingham, Torksey, Sturton, Stow, North and South Carlton, Scampton, Saxilby, Ingham, Laughterton and Upton. [9] The school was built by William Wright and Sons, of Lincoln. The playing fields were 10 acres. [10] [11] There were eight classrooms. [12] [13]

In May 1968 headteacher John Charles Capp retired. Michael Northway, from Ipswich, took over. Mr Capp was a special policeman, and a qualified football linesman, [14] [15] and moved to Wandover Road in Messingham, [16] where he collapsed and died at home on Monday 25 May 1970, aged 63. [17] [18] Mr Capp had married in Scunthorpe in August 1934, and had attended grammar school in Grantham. [19] Mr Northway lived in Willingham; one of his daughters went to Gainsborough High School and Edinburgh University. [20]

In April 1987, a decision was made to close the school. The 1st and 4th years would not be admitted from September 1988, and everyone else would leave in July 1989. [21] The headteacher Michael Northway, with deputy Don Smellie, had been at the school since 1961. Adrian East and Louise Pickwell were head boy and girl, for 1988, with Anthony Purchase and Tamsyn Davies, for the last year of the school. [22]

The secondary school closed on Thursday 27 July 1989. At one time there were 500 at the school, but the school had only 50 children when it closed. [23] Some children would go to the William Farr school instead, in Welton. Others went to the Castle Hills school in Gainsborough.

Geography

The village public house is the Plough Inn on Tillbridge Road. The River Till is 1 mile (1.6 km) to the east.

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References

  1. ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 31 May 2016.
  2. ↑ Times Wednesday October 5 2005, page 73
  3. ↑ Times Friday June 18 2010, page 70
  4. ↑ Times Thursday July 17 2014, page 53
  5. ↑ Gainsborough Evening News Tuesday 2 September 1958, page 4
  6. ↑ Retford News Friday 13 January 1961, page 12
  7. ↑ Retford News Friday 15 September 1961, page 16
  8. ↑ Times Friday October 27 1961
  9. ↑ Gainsborough Evening News Tuesday 24 October 1961, page 8
  10. ↑ Grimsby Evening Telegraph Friday 27 October 1961, page 1
  11. ↑ Gainsborough Evening News Tuesday 31 October 1961, page 1
  12. ↑ Retford News Friday 27 October 1961, page 13
  13. ↑ Lincolnshire Echo Friday 27 October 1961, page 10
  14. ↑ Lincolnshire Echo Thursday 2 May 1968, page 5
  15. ↑ Retford News Friday 3 May 1968, page 4
  16. ↑ Retford News Friday 28 March 1969, page 4
  17. ↑ Gainsborough Evening News Tuesday 26 May 1970, page 1
  18. ↑ Retford News Friday 5 June 1970, page 4
  19. ↑ Grantham Journal Saturday 2 August 1919, page 8
  20. ↑ Retford News Friday 25 November 1983, page 2
  21. ↑ Retford News Friday 24 April 1987, page 1
  22. ↑ Retford News Friday 29 July 1988, page 9
  23. ↑ Retford News Friday 4 August 1989, page 6

Further reading

Crust, Linda (c. 1989). The Fiery Proprietory of Sturton by Stow: the lives of the small farmers of a Lincolnshire village and the world in which they lived in the nineteenth century. Sudbrooke, Lincs. p. 45. ISBN   1-872413-30-7.


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