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Epworth in Lincoln County England History and GeographyEPWORTH, a market town and parish in the western division of the wapentake of MANLEY, parts of LINDSEY, county of LINCOLN, 28¾ miles (N.W. by N.) from Lincoln, and 157¾ (N. by W.) from London, containing 1763 inhabitants. This place, which is the principal town in the Isle of Axholme, a district occupying the north-west part of the county, was anciently the residence of the Howard family, who had a castellated mansion, of which there are no remains except the site, where within the last half century were dug up some of the cannon belonging to the fortifications. The town is of considerable extent, but irregularly built; the adjacent lands are flat, and, previously to the introduction of a more efficient method of draining, were subject to frequent inundation. The principal branch of trade is the dressing of flax and hemp, a great quantity of which grows in the neighbourhood; and the manufacture of sacking and canvas is carried on to a considerable extent. The market is on Tuesday: the fairs are on the first Thursday after May 1st, and September 29th, for cattle, hemp, and flax. A court leet is held twice in the year by the lord of the manor, in a building erected for that purpose in the market-place. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Stow, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £28. 16. 8., and in the patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated to St. Andrew. There are places of worship for Baptists, the Society of Friends, the Old and the New Connexion of Methodists, and Primitive Methodists. A school for the instruction of children of this parish was founded in 1711, and endowed with a house and a small portion of land by subscription: there are some charitable bequests for the relief of the poor. A Carthusian monastery was founded here in the reign of Richard II., by Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Nottingham, and Earl Marshal' of England, the revenue of which at the dissolution was £290. 11. 7.; the remains have been converted into a private mansion. The Rev. John Wesley, founder of the sect of Methodists, was born in this parish, in 1703, during the incumbency of his father, who was rector for fifty-nine years; and Mr. Alexander Kilham, founder of a class of seceders from that sect, called Kilhamites, was also a native of this place. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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