Amcotts

Amcotts

St Mark's church, Amcotts
Amcotts

 Amcotts shown within Lincolnshire
Population 219 (2001)
OS grid reference SE8514
Unitary authority North Lincolnshire
Ceremonial county Lincolnshire
Region Yorkshire and the Humber
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Scunthorpe
Postcode district DN17 4
Police Humberside
Fire Humberside
Ambulance East Midlands
EU Parliament Yorkshire and the Humber
UK Parliament Brigg and Goole (UK Parliament constituency)
List of places: UK • England • Lincolnshire

Amcotts is a village and civil parish in the North Lincolnshire district of Lincolnshire, England, on the Isle of Axholme. It is situated on the River Trent, near Scunthorpe, and faces Flixborough on the eastern bank of the river. The 2001 census recorded a population of 219 for the parish.[1]

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History

Formerly a township of Althorpe parish, Amcotts was created a civil parish in 1866 and enlarged in 1885 by gaining part of neighbouring Luddington.[2][3]

Amcotts was listed in Domesday Book of 1086 when it consisted of eight households.[4]

A chantry chapel was founded in the mid 15th century by Geoffrey Crowle and William Amcotts.[5]

Amcotts Grade II listed Anglican parish church is dedicated to St Mark, and was built in 1853 to replace an earlier church dedicated to St Thomas A Becket which fell down in 1849.[2][6]

Amcotts CE School was built in 1860 as a National School, which closed in 1961.[7]

In 1974 properties in the village suffered significant damage due to the Flixborough disaster.

Marae

The hamlet of "Marae", or "The Marshes" now a deserted medieval village of which no surface evidence remains, was supposedly at the outfall of Mere Dyke on the River Trent, which is now in Amcotts, but then was in Luddington parish which extended to the bank of the Trent until 1885.[8] At the time of Domesday Book of 1086, Marae was listed as having three households.[9]

Population

Population of Amcotts Civil Parish
Year 1881 1891 1901 1911 1921 1931 1941 1961 2001
Population[10] 397 332 300 278 292 270 242 225 219

Geography

Destinations from Amcotts
Luddington, Eastoft, Goole Burton upon Stather, Alkborough, Normanby by Spital, Winterton, winteringham
Crowle, Thorne, Appleby, Ulceby, Immingham
   Amcotts    
Ealand, Epworth, Doncaster Keadby, Althorpe Gainsborough Crosby, Scunthorpe, Brigg

References

  1. ^ "Amcotts Civil Parish". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office of National Statistics. http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=791101&c=Amcotts&d=16&e=15&g=392085&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1314465831155&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779. Retrieved 27 August 2011. 
  2. ^ a b "Amcotts". Vision of Britain. University of Portsmouth. http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/place_page.jsp?p_id=11400&st=AMCOTTS. Retrieved 27 August 2011. 
  3. ^ "Amcotts civil parish (1885)". Vision of Britain. University of Portsmouth. http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10394030&c_id=10001043. Retrieved 27 August 2011. 
  4. ^ "Amcotts". Domesday Map. Anna Powell-Smith/University of Hull. http://www.domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SE8514/amcotts/. Retrieved 27 August 2011. 
  5. ^ "Chantry Chapel, Amcotts". Pastscape. English Heritage. http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=61147&sort=4&search=all&criteria=amcotts&rational=q&recordsperpage=10. Retrieved 27 August 2011. 
  6. ^ "Church of St Mark", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage; retrieved 6 July 2011
  7. ^ "Amcotts CE School". Lincs to the Past. Lincolnshire Archives. http://www.lincstothepast.com/AMCOTTS-CE-SCHOOL/825232.record?pt=S. Retrieved 27 August 2011. 
  8. ^ "Marae DMV". Pastscape. English Heritage. http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=60968&sort=4&search=all&criteria=amcotts&rational=q&recordsperpage=10. Retrieved 27 August 2011. 
  9. ^ "Marae/The Marshes". Domesday Map. Anna Powell-Smith/University of Hull. http://www.domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SE8516/the-marshes/. Retrieved 27 August 2011. 
  10. ^ "Vision of Britain". http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/data_cube_page.jsp?data_theme=T_POP&data_cube=N_TOT_POP&u_id=10394030&c_id=10001043&add=N. Retrieved 27 August 2011. 

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