Postcard

  • Picture / Image:  Great Ponton Church near Grantham [Lincolnshire] (Holy Cross)
  • Publisher: Wheeler's Series No. 163
  • Postally used: yes
  • Stamp:  Edward VII half d yellow-green
  • Postmark(s): Grantham 1909 cds
  • Sent to:  Brownjohn, 30 Upper Park Fields, Putney
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Great Ponton is an English village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, 3 miles (5 km) south of Grantham on the A1 trunk road, which bisects the village. The tower of the parish church is a roadside landmark. The 2001 census recorded a population of 333, of whom all were of white ethnic origin and 87 per cent described themselves as Christian. The average age was 40.[1] The population of the civil parish had risen to 379 at the 2011 census.[2] It was estimated at 369 in 2019.[3]

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.[4] The village belonged to the historical wapentake of Winnibriggs and Threo.[5]

The village church dedicated to the Holy Cross dates from the 13th century. Its pinnacled tower was added in 1519 at the expense of Anthony Ellys, a wool merchant of Ellys Manor House, which is open to the public.[6][7] The church weather vane depicts a gilded fiddle. The educationalist and school textbook writer Charles Hoole was briefly rector from 1642.[8] 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 1864–1882.[9]

The Grade I church is among nine listed buildings in the village, six of them residential.[10]

Great Ponton railway station opened in 1853 and closed for passengers on 15 September 1958.[11]

Great Ponton has a limestone quarry.[citation needed]