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Epworth is a small town and civil parish in the Isle of Axholme, North Lincolnshire, England.〔OS Explorer Map 280: Isle of Axholme, Scunthorpe and Gainsborough: (1:25,000) : ISBN 0 319 46432 6〕 The town lies on the A161, about halfway between Goole and Gainsborough. As the birthplace of John Wesley and Charles Wesley, it has given its name to many institutions associated with Methodism. Their father, Samuel Wesley, was the rector from 1695 to 1735. ==History== Epworth, is situated in the Isle of Axholme. The Isle is so called because, until it was drained by the Dutch engineer Sir Cornelius Vermuyden (1627–1629), it was an inland island surrounded by rivers, streams, bogs and meres. A grant of the commons to the freeholders and other tenants, made by deed in 1360 by John de Mowbray, Lord of the Manor, gave privileges and freedoms over the use of common land, reed gathering, rights over fish and fowl and such wildlife as could be taken by the commoners for food. The deed caused repercussions in the reign of King Charles I when Vermuyden was granted the task of draining the Isle and he and his Dutch partners came under regular attack in their stockade at Sandtoft. The draining of the land saw the ancient rights of the commoners encroached upon, who as the land dried up lost their supply of wildfowl for food, foraging rights and employment as mere men, swanniers, ferry operators in addition to their grazing rights. A whole way of life that had seen annual otter hunts on the Trent, not to mention abundant Salmon, was lost along with many livelihoods. The resentment felt by the Isle of Axholme towards the king doubtless explains their siding with Parliament in the English Civil War. Nevertheless, Vermuyden's work was an outstanding piece of irrigation engineering and turned thousands of acres of marsh and bog, which had been impassable except in high summer or hard frost, into the rich arable farmland that the Isle benefits from today. There has been extensive drainage since, which, together with periodic warping (intentional flooding to deposit silt and enrich the land), has made this an exceptionally fertile area. Domesday Book.1086 " Manor In Epeuerde, Ledwin had eight carucates of land to tbe taxed. Land to twelve ploughs. Geoffrey de Wirce has there two ploughs, and eight sokemen, with two carucates and five oxgangs of this land; and thirteen villanes and nine bordars with six ploughs, and eleven fisheries of five shillings, and sixteen acres of meadow. Wood pasture one mile long and one mile broad.. Value in King Edword's time £8 now £5. Tallaged at twenty shillings.〔http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SE7803/epworth/ Domesday Online - Epworth〕 The Isle of Axholme was originally the eight parishes of Althorpe, Belton, Crowle, Epworth, Haxey, Luddington, Owston and Wroot.〔(Epworth Equestrian )〕 The Axholme Joint Railway served Epworth; it is now closed. 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「Epworth, Lincolnshire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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