Bottesford, Lincolnshire

not to be confused with Bottesford, Leicestershire

Bottesford
Stone church with a square tower. Unusually the windows in the nave are circular. The tower is on the left and dominates the picture. It has a crenellated flat top with stone pinnacles at each corner, narrow arched-top bell ports high up and very narrow slit windows lower down. The nave is receding left to right and is partly obscured by one of the two large yews that frame the picture. In shadow the porch can just be made out near the tower. The day is sunny and the sky mostly blue. The stonework of the church appears golden, similar to Cotswold stone. In the short grass of the foreground the top of a single gravestone can be seen.
St Peter's Church, Bottesford
It is a bright February day, with some blue sky between rolling white clouds. A decent-sized stream, well filled with fast-moving water runs toward us down the middle of the picture. On eather side are wide, flat grassy banks. On the left is a footpath, and further left a stand of bare-branched silver birch, with a single evergreen spruce at our end of the plantation. On the right, in the immediate foreground, is a bare blackthorn bush. Behind that the right bank extends away as a field planted with winter wheat. The original photographer wrote:'Bottesford Beck. Looking east along Bottesford Beck, years ago it was heavily polluted with outflow from Scunthorpe steelworks, today it flows to the Trent much clearer.'
Bottesford Beck
The southern parish boundary
Bottesford is located in Lincolnshire
Bottesford
Bottesford
Location within Lincolnshire
Population11,038 (2011)
OS grid referenceSE895079
• London145 mi (233 km) S
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townScunthorpe
Postcode districtDN16, DN17
PoliceHumberside
FireHumberside
AmbulanceEast Midlands
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Lincolnshire
53°33′07″N 0°40′17″W / 53.55206°N 0.67143°W / 53.55206; -0.67143

Bottesford is a town in North Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, England.[1]

Historically a village, Bottesford forms a contiguous urban area of Scunthorpe.[2] In the 2001 Census, Bottesford's population was recorded as 11,171, falling to 11,038 at the 2011 census.[3] The town is directly south of Scunthorpe, west of Brigg and north of Gainsborough and Kirton in Lindsey.

  1. ^ List of town councils in North Lincolnshire Bottesford is listed but has no separate web presence. Retrieved 14 April 2013
  2. ^ Map of Town and Parish boundaries in North Lincolnshire Archived 15 August 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 14 April 2013
  3. ^ "Civil parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 20 April 2016.