New Bolingbroke is a village in the

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, in the

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of Lincolnshire, England. It is in the

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, and is about east from

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. The village was established by John Parkinson, who was a steward to

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Built in the 1820s, the

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continues to be called the New Bolingbroke Town Hall, the name it was given when John Parkinson established New Bolingbroke with the aspiration of it becoming a

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. It is a Grade II

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. New Bolingbroke Church, dedicated to

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, was built in 1854 by

Samuel Sanders Teulon Samuel Sanders Teulon (2 March 1812 – 2 May 1873) was an English Gothic Revival architect, noted for his use of polychrome brickwork and the complex planning of his buildings. Family Teulon was born in 1812 in Greenwich, Kent, the son of a ...

. It is a Grade II

. The Crescent, a curved line of red-brick shops and houses, was built in 1823 by John Parkinson to house the workers of his weaving factory; the houses are now all privately owned. The Crescent is Grade II listed. New Bolingbroke had two working windmills. One, Rundles Mill, is Grade II Listed and dates from the mid-19th century, and has been disused since at least 1906. Made of red brick, it is a

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. The other, Watkinsons Mill, dates from 1821 and is also Grade II listed. It was working until 1944 when the weather beam broke. It continued with an engine for a time, but today only the stump remains, which is used as a store. New Bolingbroke railway station was sited here.

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* {{authority control Villages in Lincolnshire Windmills in Lincolnshire East Lindsey District

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