Bottesford, North Lincolnshire

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Bottesford is a civil parish and southern suburb of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, England.

Its population was 11,177 at the 2001 census. It was mentioned in the Domesday Book under the name 'Budlesford', and until the 20th century it was a small farming village. Bottesford is defined by the A159 to the west and the B1501 to the north.

Local features include Bottesford Beck, St. Peter ad Vincula church and Bottesford Preceptory where it is said the Knight's Templar of St John used as a base. Bottesford also shares a border with Riddings.

Bottesford did apply for its own charter to be a town in May 2005 and is still waiting to hear from the tourism office in Whitehall. There is a library on Cambridge Avenue.

HM Queen Elizabeth visited the parish on her Golden Jubilee tour in July 2002, and said 'What a quaint and supportive community this is.'

The local secondary school, the Frederick Gough School, opened in 1960 as Ashby Grammar School. It became Bottesford Grammar School, then became 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.