BoAr: Gallery: BAEM: Eastgate

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Text, page and picture ©R.J.PENHEY 2008.  

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Eastgate, from the Bourne Abbots Estate Map of 1825.

This is a detail, centred on Bedehouse Bank, taken from the main map in the Bourne Abbots Estate Map of 1825.

 

In the figure, the grey/green is land of Mrs. Eleanor Pochin’s successors in the Bourne Abbots estate. She had died in 1823. The barely distinguishable pink is land copyhold of the manor of Bourne Abbots. Brown is roads and blue, water. The diagonally hatched shapes are dwelling houses and the stippled shapes are outbuildings such as a mill, stables and workshops. In general, these show better on the inset plan of hte town, the Eastgate part of which is shown on this web site, in Map 4. However, that does not show any detail of Bedehouse Bank, which appears in much greater detail in its own page from the Exeter Estate Book (EEB). Although the present map was made in 1825, it appears to show the site as it was when newly allocated to The Marquess of Exeter in 1770, as a result of the 1766 Bourne Enclosure Act. The EEB’s record, though only a year or two later than the present one, shows the site very much more sub-divided and developed. The EEB’s list of occupiers makes it clear that the Exeter Estate would rather not acknowledge this but was obliged de facto, to do so.

The water in the west is the mill pool of what became Notley’s Mill and just to its north, the one of the abbey fish ponds which was filled when the Sleaford railway was built in 1870/1. The green plot in the north-west corner was part of the Abbey Lawn, extending from the sample of the map concerning The Abbey.

In the east, the wider part of the river is part of the basin at the head of the Bourne Eau Navigation, as it resulted from the 1781 Act of Parliament. The water leading from the north, into the river is the Car Dyke

Names mentioned in the present sample map are George Bailey, John Chamberlain, Alexander Eadon, Marquess of Exeter, Thomas Hales, John Ley Row, John [Presgrave], Edward Sharpe, Thomas Shipley, Henry Thistleton, William Thistleton and Edward Wherry.

 

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