page_title: Skellingthorpe
section_title: When Skellingthorpe was a lot larger
hierarchical_section_title: Skellingthorpe / History / 19th century / When Skellingthorpe was a lot larger
caption_attribution_description: English: Ferry Lane, Skellingthorpe: the old route to the Fossdyke, which now ends in a dead-end.
context_page_description: Skellingthorpe is a village and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 3,465. It is situated 3 miles west from Lincoln city centre, and just outside the A46 Lincoln ring road.
  The village of Doddington and Doddington Hall lie 1 mile to the south-west. Birchwood estate, built in the 1970s on the site of RAF Skellingthorpe, is 1 mile to the south-east.
context_section_description: An 1872 gazetteer of Skellingthorpe records that it is ‘a scattered, but well-built and pleasant village’. Skellingthorpe Hall was at the time the well-established resident property of Richard Coupland Berge-Coupland, Esq., J.P, while the parish itself consisted of ‘726 souls, and 6220 acres of land, extending to the Fossdyke… including 600 acres cleared of plantations, and some fertile and well-drained marshes’. The Spital Charity still owned some property in the parish. More importantly, however, the gazetteer (by William White, of Sheffield) makes it clear that Skellingthorpe’s parish boundary was at that time considerably greater, encompassing 150 acres owned by Joseph Shuttleworth of Hartsholme Hall, as well as Swallow Beck and a 25-acre ‘storage reservoir’ supplying Lincoln Water Works that was situated in ‘Skellingthorpe Valley’ a mile from Boultham. (All of these places are now outside of the parish boundary, and classed as Lincoln.) North Hykeham’s Railway Station also fell within the Skellingthorpe parish boundary.
caption: Ferry Lane led to the Fossdyke Canal, at one time a means of getting to Lincoln. (The lane now terminates before the railway line.)
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