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AXHOLME , an See also:island in the See also:north-See also:west See also:part of See also:Lincolnshire, See also:England, lying between the See also:rivers See also:Trent, Idle and See also:Don, and isolated by drainage channels connected with these rivers. It consists mainly of a See also:plateau of slight See also:elevation, rarely exceeding See also:loo ft., and comprises the parishes of Althorpe, Belton, Epworth, Haxey, Luddington, Owston and Crowle; the See also:total See also:area being about 47,goo acres. At a very See also:early See also:period it would appear to have been covered with See also:forest; but this having been in See also:great measure destroyed, it became in -great part a swamp. In 1627 See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:Charles I., who was See also:lord of the island, entered into a See also:contract with See also:Cornelius Vermuyden, a Dutchman, for reclaiming the See also:meres and marshes, and rendering them See also:fit for tillage. This undertaking led to the introduction of a large number of Flemish workmen, who settled in the See also:district, and, in spite of the violent See also:measures adopted by the See also:English peasantry to expel them, retained their ground in sufficient See also:numbers to affect the See also:physical See also:appearance and the See also:accent of the inhabitants to .this See also:day. The See also:principal towns in the isle are Crowle (pop. 2769) and Epworth. The Axholme See also:joint See also:light railway runs north and See also:south through the isle, connecting See also:Goole with Haxey junction; and the Great See also:Northern, Great Eastern and Great Central lines also afford communications, The See also:land is extremely fertile. The name, properly Axeyholm (cf. Haxey)„js'hybrid, Ax being the See also:Celtic uisg, See also:water; ey the Anglo-Saxon for island; and holm the Norse word with the same signification.
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