"The house was probably built for William Thorold, d.l725, or for Lord Widrington, was altered late C18 for the Pennyman family and in C19 by Christopher Turnor of Stoke Rochford Hall. It seems most likely that the matching early C18 doorcases came from one of the demolished Stoke Rochford Halls"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360363?section=official-list-entry 

Now the home of Mr and Mrs George McCorquodale. 

DB 17 February 2013

White's Directory 1872 reports :-

"The Hall is a neat stone mansion, with well-wooded pleasure grounds, on the eastern acclivity of the valley.

The south side of it was built by Lord Widrington, and it was afterwards enlarged by Mr. Day, who bequeathed it to Mr. Pennyman, by whom the west front was erected.

It is now occupied by Philip Broke Turnor, Esq."

DB 17 February 2013

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Kelly's Directory 1930 records "Little Ponton Hall, a mansion of stone, with delightful grounds, on the eastern acclivity of the valley, is occupied by Capt. Herbert Broke Turnor M.C. Christopher H. Turnor esq. J.P. is lord of the manor and principal landowner"

DB 14 February 2016

Octagonal early Georgian Pigeoncote. 

DB 15 February 2015 

View inside the Pigeoncote. 

DB 11 February 2018

Octagonal early Georgian Pigeoncote. 

DB 15 February 2015 

"Former school and school house, now house. 1832, minor C20 alterations"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062314 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"Public Elementary School (mixed), built by subscription in 1832 & enlarged in 1884, for 56 children; Miss Alice Mary Morley, mistress"

DB 24 April 2019

Date stone reads "1832".

White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1856 states :-

"The school, with a house for the teacher, was built in 1832, by the Rev. Dr. Dowdiswell, the late lord of the manor"

also

"Watchorne Eliz. schoolmistress"

DB 24 April 2019

Carries the Great Northern Railway line over Whalebone Lane.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"The Old Whalebones, which are a landmark in this parish, have recently been restored by Major William Longstaffe ; they are situated in Whalebone Lane" 

Bridge ECM1 236. 

DB 24 April 2019

William Todd of Grange Farm, Little Ponton owned and ran a successful stud in the 1930s and 40s.

This photograph of prize winning shire horses illustrated the front cover of information booklet published c.1943.

Todd's horses and their progeny won many prizes at the Lincolnshire Show, in London and elsewhere.

David Robinson Collection

"Ponton Inventor", was a bay stallion, foaled in 1933. The horse was let out to farmers in Yorkshire each year from 1936.

David Robinson Collection

The chancel arch of St Guthlac's, Little Ponton is descibed by Pevsner as Saxo-Norman. The chancel itself is late thirteenth century.

The north arcade and south doorway are Early English. The arch of a former south chapel is clear.

Mark Acton, 2017

East end of Saint Guthlac's Church viewed across a sea of aconites in the grounds of Little Ponton Hall. 

DB 13 February 2011

Another springtime photo of the church.

The west gable was rebuilt in 1657 and unusually the bell is set into the gable rather then in a bellcote.

March 2017

Gravestone of Richard Todd Oscar-nominated actor best known for war dramas like "The Dam Busters", "The Longest Day", "Yangtse Incident" and "The Hasty Heart".

An officer in the 7th (Light Infantry) Parachute Battalion he was one of the first to land in Normandy in advance of the main D-Day landings. 

DB 25 February 2012