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Eastgate
Row of terraced houses along a residential road
Bourne Eau at Eastgate
Map of ceremonial Lincolnshire, with position of Austerby located nearly in the centre of South Kesteven
Map of ceremonial Lincolnshire, with position of Austerby located nearly in the centre of South Kesteven
Eastgate
Location within Lincolnshire
OS grid referenceTF104198
• London90 mi (140 km) S
Civil parish
  • Bourne
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBOURNE
Postcode districtPE10
Dialling code01778
PoliceLincolnshire
FireLincolnshire
AmbulanceEast Midlands
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Lincolnshire
52°45′55″N 0°21′55″W / 52.7653°N 0.3652°W / 52.7653; -0.3652

Eastgate is a historic street and suburb in Bourne, Lincolnshire.

History

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There was a fire in 1637 which destroyed much of Eastgate, which destroyed the pottery industry that had previously existed in the area.[1][2] The Bourne Eau was formerly navigable up to Eastgate, and during the early 19th century, many warehouses in Eastgate took advantage of this, with ships carrying up to ten tons of cargo capable of navigating it, however, a lack of maintenance and the coming of the railways ended this.[3] In 1857, a national school was opened on Willoughby Road, designed by Edward Browning, with funds gathered from the congregation.[4] On the afternoon of 30 August 1878, a heavy storm resulted in an eleven year old boy from Eastgate dying.[5] The national school closed on the 31st of October 1903,[6] with the students transferred to the school on Abbey Road, and two years later the building re-opened as an Anglican mission church.[4] The Eau occasionally overflowed its banks, resulting in a flood circa 1930.[7] There was previously a pub called the Old Wharf Inn in Eastgate.[8]

During World War II, on 4 May 1941, a Luftwaffe bomber crashed into the Butcher's Arms, a local pub, destroying it, and killing seven people on the ground, including the publican and his wife, as well as several soldiers billeted there, and injuring six more.[9][10] The mission church closed in 1950, and after briefly being used by British Racing Motors to store steel, the building was demolished in 1960, replaced by two bungalows.[4] On 11 August 1964 an unexploded bomb was discovered on the site, and removed the following day by a bomb disposal unit from RAF Newton.[11][12]

Notley's Mill was built in 1729, and was located on Victoria Place, bordering Abbey Lawn (where there had previously been a pond), however it was demolished in 1973, marking the closure of the last working mill in Bourne.[13] The Bourne Eau flows through Eastgate, although some sections run through culverts.[2]

Presently, there remains a pub, The Anchor, dated from the 18th century, backing onto the Bourne Eau.[14] The Delaine Bus Museum is located nearby on Spalding Road, on the former site of the English Racing Automobiles workshop.[15][16] There was a United Reformed Church to the west of the street, which was built in 1846,[17] however it closed in 2024, with a final service on 23 March, due to a dwindling congregation, the building is now vacant.[18]

Buildings

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Eastgate House
Old Tannery

Eastgate House

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Eastgate House was built in the late 18th century, in Regency style, and was bought by the Mays family in 1856. Raymond Mays was born there in 1899, and English Racing Automobiles and later British Racing Motors were run from workshops behind the house.[19][20]

Old Tannery

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Now divided into two properties, 45 and 47 Eastgate, it was built beginning in the late 17th century and completed in the late 18th century. It served as a tannery for some time, and includes a carriage arch.[21][22][23]

References

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  1. ^ "Bourne History, The History of Bourne, Motorsport in Bourne". www.bournetown.co.uk. Retrieved 5 June 2025.
  2. ^ a b "Eastgate". www.falakros.net. Archived from the original on 5 June 2025. Retrieved 5 June 2025.
  3. ^ Needle, Rex (20 January 2015). "The changing fortunes of our local river the Bourne Eau". LincsOnline. Retrieved 5 June 2025.
  4. ^ a b c "Eastgate school and mission". www.falakros.net. Archived from the original on 6 June 2025. Retrieved 6 June 2025.
  5. ^ "Fearful Storm And Loss Of Life". Grantham Journal. 7 September 1878. On Friday afternoon, the 30th August last, a very heavy storm passed over this place. The rain came down in torrents and completely flooded the streets. In the fen, too, the storm was fearfully severe, the thunder being very heavy and the lightning forked and vivid, so severe that a boy name Samuel Northern, aged eleven years, son of a labourer in the Eastgate, Bourne, was instantly killed.
  6. ^ "The National School in Eastgate is to be closed on Oct 31st". Grantham Journal. 8 August 1903. p. 6.
  7. ^ "Earthquake, fire & flood". www.falakros.net. Archived from the original on 11 November 2024. Retrieved 5 June 2025.
  8. ^ "Old Wharf Inn, Bourne". www.closedpubs.co.uk. Archived from the original on 6 June 2025. Retrieved 6 June 2025.
  9. ^ "Butchers Arms, Bourne". www.closedpubs.co.uk. Archived from the original on 5 June 2025. Retrieved 5 June 2025.
  10. ^ "BBC - WW2 People's War - Shattered Peace in Bourne". www.bbc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 5 June 2025. Retrieved 5 June 2025.
  11. ^ "Eastgate plane crash". www.falakros.net. Archived from the original on 8 April 2022. Retrieved 5 June 2025.
  12. ^ "The Eastgate bomb". www.falakros.net. Archived from the original on 8 April 2022. Retrieved 5 June 2025.
  13. ^ "Notley's Mill". www.falakros.net. Archived from the original on 5 June 2025. Retrieved 5 June 2025.
  14. ^ "ANCHOR INN, Bourne - 1241948 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Archived from the original on 31 July 2024. Retrieved 5 June 2025.
  15. ^ "Delaine Heritage Trust". delaineheritagetrust.org. Archived from the original on 5 June 2025. Retrieved 5 June 2025.
  16. ^ "THE DELAINE OF BOURNE". www.countrybus.co.uk. Archived from the original on 8 December 2024. Retrieved 5 June 2025.
  17. ^ GENUKI. "Genuki: Eastgate, Bourne, United Reformed Church, Lincolnshire". www.genuki.org.uk. Archived from the original on 5 June 2025. Retrieved 5 June 2025.
  18. ^ Moon, Suzanne (14 March 2024). "Bourne United Reformed Church in Eastgate to close with a final service". LincsOnline. Archived from the original on 5 June 2025. Retrieved 5 June 2025.
  19. ^ "Building record MLI95617 - Eastgate House, Bourne". Lincolnshire Heritage Explorer. Archived from the original on 5 June 2025. Retrieved 5 June 2025.
  20. ^ "EASTGATE HOUSE, Bourne - 1242179 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Archived from the original on 5 June 2025. Retrieved 5 June 2025.
  21. ^ "45, EASTGATE, Bourne - 1242207 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Archived from the original on 5 June 2025. Retrieved 5 June 2025.
  22. ^ "47, EASTGATE, Bourne - 1241947 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Archived from the original on 5 June 2025. Retrieved 5 June 2025.
  23. ^ "Building record MLI95618 - 45 Eastgate, Bourne". Lincolnshire Heritage Explorer. Archived from the original on 5 June 2025.
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