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__NOTOC__ Anton's Gowt is a hamlet in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately north-west from the market town and port of Boston. ==History== Anton's Gowt is in an area once known as Wildmore Fen. It's believed that the lock, and from it the hamlet, were named after Sir Anthony Thomas, one of a group of people who helped drain the Witham Fens from 1631 onwards. The word 'Gowt' is on old term for "A water-pipe under the ground. A sewer. A flood-gate, through which the marsh-water runs from the reens into the sea."〔John Hobson Matthews (1905): ''(Cardiff Records: volume 5 )'', pp. 557-598〕 A Primitive Methodist chapel〔("Anton's Gowt Primitive Methodist Chapel" ), The National Archives. Retrieved 22 November 2013〕 was built by the Doughty family in 1852, but is no longer in evidence. Its centenary was held in June 1952, in the carpenter's shop of the Burn family, and the service was conducted by a Mr H. Doughty of Lincoln who was 95 years old. The chapel closed in 1964, when it still had 18 Sunday school scholars.〔''The Lincolnshire Village Book'', Lincolnshire Federation of Women's Institutes; Countryside Books (2005) ISBN 1-85306-077-1〕 A loop line of the Great Northern Railway (from Peterborough to Bawtry) once ran along the north bank of the River Witham, passing by Anton's Gowt Lock. Today the route of the line is a cycle path to Boston. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anton's Gowt」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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