Crowle
- The Cemetery, opened in 1863, covers two acres and has two mortuary chapels.
- Crowle was part of the Crowle sub-district of the Thorne Registration District.
- Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Oswald.
- The older portions of the building are of Norman origin, but some Saxon stonework also exists.
- There is evidence that a pre-Norman, Saxon church of wooden construction may have stood here, also dedicated to St. Oswald. Oswald was a Christian King of Northumbria, who was slain on 5 August, 642.
- A stone and brick porch was added in 1628. The entire church was restored in 1884.
- The church seats 400.
- Here is a photograph of St. Oswald's Church supplied by Ron Cole (who retains the copyright):
- The parish register goes back to 1561 and includes entries from Eastoft.
- Check the Isle of Axholme Deanery to see what LFHS marriage indexes exist.
- In 1872, there was a Catholic Church built here, dedicated to the Blessed Sacrament and Saint Norbert.
- The village also boasted chapels for the Congregationalists (1760), Wesleyan Methodists, Baptists (1599) and Primitive Methodists. For information and assistance in researching these chapels, see our non-conformist religions page. (JB)
- Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
- The parish was in the Crowle sub-district in the Thorne Registration District.
- Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.
Crowle is both a parish, a township and a market town in the Isle of Axholme. The town lies about three miles north of the M180 Motorway, on the A161 as it winds north to Goole, and is 17 miles north of Gainsborough and 165 miles north of London. The Old River Don skirts the north part of the village. The parish covers about 6,900 acres and includes the hamlet of Ealand, where the railway has a station.
If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, the village of Crowle is bisected by the A161 trunk road as it travels north from the M180 motorway.
- Check the Crowle Org web page to see what is happening in the parish.
- Check our touring page for more sources.
- Crowle was the local market town for many centuries.
- Eastoft village was once a part of Crowle parish, but was split off in 1855 to form its own parish.
- A Market Hall was erected in the village in 1870.
- Histories and descriptions of
Crowle and Eastoft provided by the Isle of Axholme FHS.
- There was a station here on a branch of the Doncaster to Grimsby line of the Great Central railway.
- There was a Police station here in 1900. William PEACH, inspector, was in charge. In 1913, William FORD, inspector, was in charge.
- There was a brickworks in Crowle up until 1975.
- The national grid reference is SE 7712.
- You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has a scale of 2.5 inches to the mile.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
- Locals pronounce the name as "Crole". But local radio personalities use "Crow..le" (as in "how by"). [Fred T. Brumby]
- In 1900, the Crowle Advertiser on High Street was published weekly, on Fridays. Publishing continued past 1913.
- See our Newspapers page for additional resources.
- The parish was in the West Division of the ancient Manley Wapentake in the Gainsborough district (sometimes given as West Lindsey division) in the parts of Lindsey.
- The parish was also partly in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
- In 1894, the town formed an Urban District Council to manage utilites and the like.
- In the 1972 government redistricting, this parish became part of the Boothferry District, which is now in the County of Humberside (formerly Lindsey, Lincolnshire).
- Three houses and ten acres of land were bequeathed for the education and relief of the poor by Richard BREWER in 1687; Thomas WALKWOOD in 1692; and Richard CLARK in 1721.
- After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Thorne Poor Law Union.
Crowle flourished in the 1800s:
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1801 |
1,343 |
| 1811 |
1,424 |
| 1821 |
1,729 |
| 1831 |
1,889 |
| 1841 |
2,235 |
| 1851 |
2,548 |
| 1871 |
3,122 |
| 1881 |
2,820 |
| 1891 |
2,641 |
| 1911 |
2,853 |
| 2001 |
4,090 |
- A National School with 23 acres of land was initially bequeathed by Richard BREWER in 1687. In 1900, average attendance was 118, and a new infant class room was planned for construction.
- A School board was formed in 1871 and a Board School erected that same year. It was extended in 1894 to hold 350 children.
- A Catholic School existed here in 1900, attended by 35 children.
- For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.
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[Last updated: 23-August-2008 - Louis R. Mills]
