Cuckoo Road, Spalding

[helenw]

I was wandering if anyone could help me.

The Chappell/Welby family used to live on a farm on Cuckoo Road in Spalding in the late 1800s however we can not find any trace of Cuckoo Road existing now.

The reason we are looking for it is a point of interest really, the farm was known as Chappell Mill (within the family) and family legend has it that at some point the father disinherited his son and changed his will and left the farm to his daughter. When she married her husband basically drank away the farm and it was lost in debts.

We are planning to go to the records office and dig out the wills so we can see at which generation this happened but it would be nice to see one of the family homes (if it still exists) if anyone can shed any light for me on the location that would be great.

Thanks

[flyby]

Hi Helen,
     I dont know if this is any help to you but there is a Cuckoo Lane in Pinchbeck which comes under spalding.In the 1881 census there were a lot of Chappells living in Pinchbeck at Glen side and Glen bank.
   If you would like to give me some info on yours maybe i could find something out, I live near Spalding.
              Sue

[Geoff E]

Cuckoo Bridge is about 2miles SW of Spalding

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=520500&y=320500&z=5&sv=520500,320500&st=4&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf&ax=520500&ay=320500

Perhaps the road between Spalding and there was Cuckoo Rd.

A mile to the east of there is Cuckoo Junction Farm, a reminder of a railway signal box at Cuckoo Junction.

[helenw]

Thanks for that guys, I actually dont live that far from spalding but live far enough that it'd be a proper trip out to see. Also when i put in cuckoo road it just doesnt appear in the spalding area, looks like the original road my have gone or it was never an official road i know what they were all like at making things up......

I'll take a drive out that way, it'd be nice to see if there is a farm resembling the one my family used to own.

[keith110639]

The Cuckoo Road in 1800's seems to have been near to Hawthorne Bank Road, off Winsover Road, or Winsoon Road, probably now known as Horseshoe Road. This is now a well built up area with new housing estates. I can remember the area when it was mostly farm land 60 years ago. Cuckoo Junction Farm near old railway (Bourne Line) closed some time ago is on Horseshoe Road, also Cuckoo Bridge over the North Drove drain, also a public house used to be near this bridge that may have been called Cuckoo Inn, all to the South South East of Spalding Town center. In 1881 census I have found George Welby, 50 Farmer of 100 acres, Empl.4 Labourers, Matilda, Wife, 52. John Thomas, Son, 22. Elizabeth, Daur. 24. Samuel, Son, 15. Mary Jane, Daur. 13.
I have sent a personal email with some of these details to helenw.
It may also be of interest to others.
Regards
Keith

[Hemingbrough Historian]

Hello Helen
I have just seen your post about Cuckoo Road, Spalding. Its whereabouts has been driving me mad as many of my relatives lived there in the 1800's. Here's a reply from the Lincoln archives that may help.

CUCKOO ROAD, SPALDING
Thank you for your e-mail dated 4 January, received here on 16
January.
I have checked various maps and other sources here at Lincolnshire
Archives and have come to the conclusion that Cuckoo Road was probably
the same as Horseshoe Road, but that Horseshoe Road was its official
name and Cuckoo Road its popular, local name.
The census returns were usually collected in a geographically rational
way, that is to say that places that were adjacent to one another on the
ground will be found in the same order on the census returns. Hence, the
roads on the western edge of Spalding parish are listed in the 1881
census in the following sequence: Bourne Road, Winsover Road, Cuckoo
Road, Hawthorn Bank.
However, when looking at maps of earlier and later dates, there is no
mention of Cuckoo Road, but the only road between Bourne Road/Winsover
Road to the north and Hawthorn Bank to the south is Horseshoe Road
(Railway plan, 1861, reference HCC Plans 28; ecclesiastical boundaries
plan, 1874, reference: 2 CC 59/14029; Ordnance Survey map, 1906,
reference: OS 142/NW).
It seems significant that where the railway crossed Hawthorn Road on
the 1906 OS map, the crossing was called 'Cuckoo Crossing'. The adjacent
farm, which on the 1906 map was called Pode Hole Farm, was called Cuckoo
Junction Farm on a recent road map (1997).
To back up this theory, by the time of the 1891 census, Cuckoo Road had
disappeared from the geographical sequence of roads, but Horseshoe Road
had appeared for the first time, in the same place in the sequence:
Bourne Road, Horseshoe Road, Winsover Road, Hawthorn Bank.
James Stevenson
Archivist
Lincolnshire Archives

best wishes
Gym Junky

[roysmith99]

Hi folks,

As a Spaldonian born and bred, now living out of county I too can confirm that "Cuckoo Road" was what is now known as Horseshoe Road. My family lived both on Hawthorn Bank (from 1960 to 1971) and Winsover Road (from 1971 to 1980). As kids we played in "The Cuckoo" area, which was then mainly for bulb growing. I used t play on the "closed" Bourne Rail Line and ghenerally only knew the area between it and Winsover Road as "The Cuckoo".

[helenw]

my apologies for not saying this earlier exams over the last year have made me put my family search on hold

Thank you everyone for your information hopefully I'll be able to pass this on to my Dad whose side of the family lived at Cuckoo farm once. All he has is a painting of the farm and the family stories past down

[PUDDING50]

Only just joined rootschat so sorry for late reply.  My mother's family also lived at Cuckoo Farm.  Names in the family were Vinter/Bristow/Creek.  Any information would be appreciated. Regards. Jane