page_title: Great Ponton
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Great Ponton / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Great Ponton Manor House, Lincolnshire. Built for Anthony Ellys in about 1519. It has stepped gables, and insied are traces of 16th century wall paintings.
context_page_description: Great Ponton is an English village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, situated 3 miles south of Grantham, on the A1 trunk road, which bisects the village. The tower of the parish church is a landmark beside the road. In the 2001 Census, the population was recorded as 333, of whom all were of white ethnic origin and 87 per cent described themselves as Christian. The average age was 40. The population of the civil parish had risen to 379 at the 2011 Census.
context_section_description: The village is named in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Magna Pamptune, probably meaning "farmstead by a hill". Some material remains have been found dating back to the Neolithic age. Remains of a mid-Bronze Age round barrow cemetery were discovered between Great Ponton and Sproxton in 1959. The village belonged to the historical wapentake of Winnibriggs and Threo.
  The village church dedicated to the Holy Cross dates from the 13th century. Its pinnacled tower was added in 1519 at the expense of Anthony Ellys, a wool merchant of Ellys Manor House, which is open to the public. The church weather vane depicts a gilded fiddle. The educationalist and school textbook writer Charles Hoole was briefly rector from 1642. Joshua William Brooks, who had been responsible while vicar of St Mary's Church, Nottingham for founding six new churches there, was rector in Great Ponton in 1864–1882.
  The Grade I church is among nine listed buildings in the village, six of them residential.
  Great Ponton railway station opened in 1853 and closed for passengers on 15 September 1958.
  Great Ponton has a limestone quarry.
caption: Ellys Manor House, which served as the rectory from 1921 to 1984
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