Great Ponton
| Great Ponton | |
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 Church of The Holy Cross, Great Ponton |
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 Great Ponton
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| Great Ponton shown within Lincolnshire | |
| Population | 333 2001 Census |
| OS grid reference | SK924302 |
| • London | 95 mi (153 km) S |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | GRANTHAM |
| Postcode district | NG33 5xx |
| Dialling code | 01476 53xxxx |
| Police | Lincolnshire |
| Fire | Lincolnshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| EU Parliament | East Midlands |
| UK Parliament | |
Great Ponton is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated 3 miles (5 km) south of Grantham, on the A1 trunk road, which bisects the village. The tower of the parish church is a landmark beside the road. In the 2001 Census, the population of the village was recorded as 333, of whom all were of white ethnic origin and 87% described themselves as Christian. The average age was 40. The population of the civil parish had risen to 379 at the 2011 census.
The village is named in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Magna Pamptune, probably meaning "farmstead by a hill". Some material remains have been found dating back to the Neolithic age. Remains of a mid-Bronze Age round barrow cemetery were discovered between Great Ponton and Sproxton in 1959. The village belonged to the historical wapentake of Winnibriggs and Threo.
The village church, dedicated to the Holy Cross, was built in the 13th century. Its tall pinnacled tower was added in 1519 at the expense of Anthony Ellys, a wool merchant who lived in the Ellys Manor House, which is nowadays open to the public. The church weather vane depicts a gilded fiddle. The educationalist and school textbook writer Charles Hoole was briefly the rector from 1642.Joshua William Brooks, who had been responsible while vicar of St. Mary's Church, Nottingham for founding six new churches there, was rector in Great Ponton in 1864–82.
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