LANEHAM: Bassetlaw Parish #28 of 66

The furthest extent of the District of Bassetlaw when you travel to the East is none other than the River Trent, another major UK river that flows Northwards as it empties its vast quantities of water into the River Humber where it and the River Ouse combine. This is certainly one of those that falls into the category of unique.
That vast quantity of water has posed a problem historically for the residents of todays parish in the form of flooding until 1768 and 1769 when an Act was passed to aid the drainage of the local area to avoid any further catastrophes. The Trent has always played a major role in this place’s history for another reason.
Until it was transferred to the parish of Kettlethorpe, there was a small pocket of land that lay on the opposite bank of the Trent which belonged to this parish. From 1388 until 1922 a small ferry boat crossed the river, a long time you have to say for a service like that to be in operation, and the former port still stands to this day - The Ferryboat Inn - one of the two pubs within the village.
Calling this one a village is in fact sort of incorrect. It sometimes gets referred to as a “town”, even though the population has never exceeded 500 people. That’s because it was a way to distinguish the two very different settlements in this parish from one another. The village at one end, and the hamlet with the ferry port at the other.
A gift shop, a brewery, and even a bus shelter that used to be a cottage for the poor…there’s all that and much more in the parish of LANEHAM.
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[@davidreid7552]

There used to be a pub called The Butchers Arms, close to what used to be the village shop. The Village Hall was used as a Youth Club. It would be at Rampton one week, and Laneham the next. The nickname was The Mile Gap. The place where the Beck was shown towards Church Laneham. This Flooded in 1977. I always called where the Trent was Laneham Ferry.

[@benlee4940]

The structure over the beck is a sluice gate with a pumping station, they're quite common along this section of the Trent, but it's one of the bigger ones.
Normally the beck drains right into the river, but this stretch of the Trent is tidal and if the beck backed up it would flood the village.
When the river is in flood during the winter, or if there's a particularly large high tide, they can pump the beck into the Trent and protect the village from flooding. The road by the river floods quite often, that's why there's so many markers in the verges.
I think the structure is private land, but if you walk up the track next to it, there's a footpath that leads back to the bridge you stopped at earlier in the video.

[@TheVillageIdiot]

Ah so it's like a tidal barrage? Seen one of them on the channel before. Come to think of it, it did look similar! Great info thanks :D

[@benlee4940]

@@TheVillageIdiot Not really a tidal barrage, more like a one way door with a pump. When the pressure of the water from the river pushes against the door it stops the beck from draining, but also stops water going back up the beck at high tide. Sluice gates like that are pretty common on tidal rivers. This one just has some massive pumps to drain the beck to stop it flooding.
The only control they have is deciding if they need to turn the pumps on. There's what looks to be a TV antenna on the structure, or nearby, that they receive data from the station and send commands to control it . I think it's controlled by the environment agency, but it could be controlled by the Trent drainage board.
When you do the Fledborough parish there's a smaller one on the Holme that's used for the same purpose, it's got a grabber arm on a crane gantry to remove debris from a screen to protect the pump.
If you want any information about the parishes south of Laneham ( like Dunham, Ragnall, Fledborough, Marnham, Tuxford...) feel free to ask.

[@judithhall6480]

Very good laneham

[@TheVillageIdiot]

Thank you :D