Boston (Lincolnshire)

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Boston
Boston Coat of Arms. The motto is “Per mare et per terram” (By land and by sea).
Boston Coat of Arms. The motto is “Per mare et per terram” (By land and by sea).
Coordinates 52 ° 58 ′  N , 0 ° 1 ′  W Coordinates: 52 ° 58 ′  N , 0 ° 1 ′  W
Boston (England)
Boston
Boston
Residents 35,124 (as of 2001)
administration
Post town BOSTON
ZIP code section PE21
prefix 01205
Part of the country England
region East Midlands
Shire county Lincolnshire
District Boston
British Parliament Boston and Skegness
Website: boston.gov.uk

Boston is a middle town in the English county of Lincolnshire and the administrative seat of the Borough of Boston of the same name . According to the census, it had a total of 35,124 inhabitants in 2001.

geography

Boston is located on the North Sea coast just before the confluence of the Witham in the tidal basin The Wash . The next major cities in the area are Peterborough (50 km south) and Lincoln (55 km northwest).

history

Pilgrims House (right)

A monastery was founded in 650 on one of the few islands of solid ground in the swampy marshland of the Fens . After the arrival of the Norman conquerors , the port city developed into England's main port for wool and cloth exports to Europe by the 14th century.

Boston served as an important seaport for trade with continental Europe in the Middle Ages . It was the location of a trading post of the Hanseatic League and as such was temporarily under the control of the Stalhof in London. The old port city was the second most important port in the Kingdom of England and had extensive trade relations with the Hanseatic cities .

From here in 1607 the Pilgrim Fathers started their unsuccessful attempt to reach Holland and thus religious freedom. Some of the Pilgrim Fathers, who emigrated to America on the Mayflower in 1620 and founded the new city of Boston there in 1630 , came from Boston , England, or had been imprisoned here. Your dungeon cells are still preserved.

After a phase of economic decline at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century, a. showed that the influx of Eastern European workers since 2004 has given Boston an unexpected upturn. "The immigrants saved the city," said Ian Barnes, economist at the University of Lincoln .

In the Boston constituency on June 23, 2016, 75.6% voted in favor of leaving the EU in the British EU referendum - the nationwide record.

tourism

The city's most important attraction is the parish church of Saint Botolph , with the famous Boston Stump , a steeple, the substructure of which was begun in 1309 and completed in 1460. It is 83 meters high and dominates the landscape around the city. It used to be used as a lighthouse for ships and for travelers through the Fens. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the church was restored with donations from citizens of Boston in the United States.

Other sights include the seven-story, five-winged windmill Maud Foster (English Maud Foster Mill ) from 1819, England's highest grindable windmill and last of the more than twenty mills on site, on the edge of the Maud Foster Canal (English Maud Foster Drain ), one the main drainage canals, and the Boston Guildhall, a brick building from 1450 that houses the city museum.

  • Boston stump

  • Boston stump

  • Maud Foster windmill

  • Tidal influence

traffic

Boston is located on the A-roads A16 road ( Grimsby - Peterborough ) and A52 ( Mablethorpe - Newcastle-under-Lyme ). At Peterborough there is a connection to the trunk road network with the A1 (M) .

Boston Station is on the Poacher Line from Grantham to Skegness , operated by East Midlands Railway . Boston was also the terminus of the East Lincolnshire Line , which ran via Louth to Grimsby, but fell victim to the Beeching ax in 1970 . The Lincolnshire Loop Line also ran through the city.

Town twinning

Boston's twin cities have been Laval (Mayenne) in France since 1958 , Boston (Massachusetts) in the United States since 1999, and Hakusan in Japan since 2002 .

Trivia

The 2019 police series Wild Bill is set in Boston.

Boston-born personalities

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Quoted in: Marcus Theurer: Nightmares in Lincolnshire. Many British want out of the EU. The main reason is the large number of immigrants from Eastern Europe . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, June 20, 2015, p. 23.
  2. ^ The Electoral Commission: EU referendum results → East Midlands → Boston , accessed July 6, 2016.
  3. ^ Website Boston friendships around the world

Web links

Commons : Boston, Lincolnshire  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files