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Taken from Lincolnshire History,
Gazetteer and Directory 1856 - A History of Boston
BECKINGHAM is a well
built village, pleasantly situated on a gentle acclivity, on the east side
of the river Witham, near the borders of Nottinghamshire, five miles east of
Newark.
The Parish contains 450
inhabitants and 1853 acres, 2 roods and 18 perches of land, including the
hamlet of Sutton, one mile south of the village. The soil is fertile, and
the pastures near the river are excellent feeding grounds. The Rev George
Marsland is Lord of the Manor, but a great part of the soil belongs to the
Trustees of the Late C G Milnes Esq., who are owners of
Beckingham Hall,
now unoccupied. Here are also several smaller freeholders, among whom are
the families of Hebb, Else, Martin, Johnson and Handley. About 155 acres
belong to Corpus Christi College, Oxford. The Church, All Saints, is a large
Gothic structure consisting of a nave with aisles, a chancel, a fine tower,
and a south porch. It has been recently been repaired and a stained glass
window inserted. It is a rectory, with the curacies of Fenton and
Stragglethorpe annexed to it, valued in KB at £41.6s.8d., and now at £750,
in the patronage and incumbency of the Rev George Marsland MA, the Lord of
the Manor, who has 432 acres of glebe, mostly allotted at the enclosure in
1770, in lieu of tithes. Here is a small Wesleyan Chapel and also a handsome
National School built by the patron and rector in 1840. In 1691 Randolph
Pattinson left to the poor the fourth part of an oxgang of land which was
exchanged at the enclosure for 1 acre, 3 roods, 11 perch of land, let for £7
per annum. The poor have also the interest of £25 left by an unknown donor.
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