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Lincolnshire / Re: The Topham Family - Deeping St James, Lincoln
« on: Thursday 19 July 18 13:51 BST (UK)  »
Hi!
    Thank you for your reply.
I think the chapel has been sold, but I don't know when.  I live 37 miles from Hop Pole, so can't visit often.  My last visit to there was 17 April, when I photographed the chapel; there were no estate agent signs outside.
    Thank you also for your interest in my book, which is nearly finished.  It will certainly be available as a CD.  I will have to tout my manuscript around a bit to see if any publisher will accept it, as I can't spare the upfront cash to get a printed version. (I did this for my first book about family pubs in South Holland and it was a significant financial loss.)  Please e-mail me direct on and I will put you on my "interested" list. (You'd be the third, so the big time beckons I don't think!!)
    Might you be interested in the first book?  You can see a picture of it if you google https://www.southhollandlife.com/2017/04/new-book-pubs-south-holland-elsewhere/
   
With kind regards
Andy

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Lincolnshire / Re: The Topham Family - Deeping St James, Lincoln
« on: Sunday 24 June 18 09:40 BST (UK)  »
Its a while since I visited, but thought you might be interested in this snippet if its not past its sell-by date:
Researching for my book about Deeping St Nicholas, I discovered that James Haynes, of Wensor Farm, and who figures in the Topham story, donated some of his farmland in Littleworth Drove, Deeping St Nicholas, as the site for a new  Methodist chapel built in 1867.  The chapel was rebuilt in 1922, so the original is no longer.

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Lincolnshire / Re: Whaplode and Whaplode Drove
« on: Sunday 08 March 15 11:42 GMT (UK)  »
I'm new to roots chat, so ignore the mistakes. 
I am researching pubs in South Holland district, and notice chipladdies post re. the Whaplodes.  I know its from 2011, but did you sort it OK? 
   The basic bit is to understand there are two sorts of parish:  civil parishes are about day-to-day governance and there is usually a parish council to administer local issues, e.g. street lighting in the parish where I live.
   Ecclesiastical Parishes are the other sort.  They are to do with the Anglican Church and are about how bishops manage the parishes within their diocese.
   In the Whaplode example, Whaplode is a civil parish, extending from the Wash, more or less, to the Cambridgeshire border, and the parish council will represent the whole, possibly split into Wards for election purposes].  Within this parish are two ecclesiastical parishes, Whaplode St Catherine and Whaplode Drove.  I'm not sure how these are grouped today: I think one of the Whaplodes is grouped with [shares its priest with] one of the Holbeaches, which is divi'd up in a similar way.
  If I can master the attachment facility of this site, I'll  send a copy of an outline-only map [a 'skeleton' map] of South Holland parishes which clearly shows the long/narrow format of fenland parishes.  It originates from the planning department,[so maybe you could get one direct?] and has no copyright issues attached to it.
   As for my own research, if anyone has any info, or the golden touch of a photograph, about the Chequers Inn in Tongue End, please let me know.


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