page_title: Skellingthorpe
section_title: Coroner's inquests
hierarchical_section_title: Skellingthorpe / History / 19th century / Coroner's inquests
caption_attribution_description: English: This file is a photo of the Methodist church in Skellingthorpe, UK.
context_page_description: Skellingthorpe is a village and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 3,465. It is situated 3 miles west from Lincoln city centre, and just outside the A46 Lincoln ring road.
  The village of Doddington and Doddington Hall lie 1 mile to the south-west. Birchwood estate, built in the 1970s on the site of RAF Skellingthorpe, is 1 mile to the south-east.
context_section_description: According to newspaper reports in January 1867, the Fossdyke was so frozen it allowed people to skate between Lincoln and Saxilby; tragically, two young Lincoln men were found frozen to death by Robert Hale, a PC stationed at Skellingthorpe. The discovery was made beside the Fossdyke in the vicinity of the end of Ferry Lane. Around this time the Stone Arms Inn was used to hold coroner’s inquests. One such investigation was undertaken in December 1874 upon the body of 75-year-old man that had been found partially-submerged in a drainage ditch in the parish. Dr Mitchinson, the coroner, recorded a simple verdict of ‘Found Dead’. As late as 1878 conditions in the parish could still be very unhealthy: the Stamford Mercury reported that three children had lately died from diphtheria in Skellingthorpe, two after drinking water 'said to smell disagreeably'.
caption: The village's present Methodist church (est. 1894) is on High Street.
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