Whaplode and Whaplode Drove

[chiplassie]

Are  Whaplode and Whaplode Drove two different parishes or the same one?
CL

[Viktoria]

I think the word drove means a road used to drive cattle, so presumably
Whaplode Drove was a cattle road originally. I`ve just looked it up as I always thought a drove meant a fen.But I was wrong.
I have maps of Lincolnshire from when I went to Pinchbeck Fen in search of family graves and Church records  there.I can`t get at  them now but will try tomorrow if possible.Have you tried googling it?

               Viktoria.

[chiplassie]

Yes I have Viktoria, but that has turned up differing information.  Just thought someone could shed some light on whether one was a town and the other a church parish, or if they are used interchangeably. Genuki has Whaplode as a parish and then mentions Whaplode Drove as well.
Thank you,
CL

[pamthomas]

According to Genuki, Whaplode Drove became an ecclesiastical parish on 15 August 1902.

However Lincolnshire Archives claim to have registers for Whaplode Drove from a much earlier date.

http://tinyurl.com/6ctyv2n
and scroll down

[keith110639]

Waplode is between Moulton & Holbeach on the A17, Waplode Drove is nearer to Gedney Hill off the B1166 Crowland to Gedney Hill road in Wisbech direction and quite a way from Waplode. In between these is Waplode St Catherine. Waplode & Waplode Drove both have their own Churches.

[Geoff-E]

Also from Genuki - "Whaplode Drove was both a hamlet and an ecclesiastical chapelry in the parish (of Whaplode)."

[chiplassie]

I think I'll have to visit and sort this one out.  Thank you for the responses.
CL

[Redroger]

A "carr" is an old Norse word for fen. Things get very complicated when a place is referred to as "Carr Fen". Another term you will meet in this area is Gote, meaning a water channel. It has two other forms; it is a gowt in the Boston area, and has become a gyte by the time it reaches South Yorkshire.

[diddymiller]

Hi, we stay in the area each year when we do a Meccano exhibition at Moulton windmill!!

I have the Lincs marriage index 1700 -1837 vol 1 which includes Whaplode & Whaplode Drove in East Elloe Deanery. They are listed as seperate parishes. if you need anything please ask.

Diddy