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Fulstow is a village in the marshes of the district of East Lindsey in Lincolnshire. It is also a civil parish, sitting 6 miles north of Louth and eight mouths south of Grimsby. A “contour road” to the neighbouring villages of Alvingham, Covenham and Tetnet connects it. Fulstow sits along the Greenwich Prime Meridian Line. It is favoured by freshwater springs and boasts a population of approximately 550.

The community is one of the few in Great Britain with no official monument to war dead from the First World War. Seven villagers were killed in this war, but no monument was erected due to the fact that one of the war dead was a deserter. The issue became such a hot-button that the parish church never held an Armistice Sunday service until recently.

The efforts of a few villagers finally gained a WWI memorial plaque combined with the WWII plaque in the last decade. The plaque is housed in the Village Hall, built as a memorial to the three men and one woman from Fulstow who lost their lives in WWII. Lincolnshire itself was none in WWII as “The Bomber County” due to its location on the eastern English coast. It was closest to the European mainland and hosted several Bomber Command Squadrons.

Just before Christmas 1943, a bomber squadron took off from RAF Grimsby en route to Berlin. At 00:40 on 24 December, the two aircraft collided at 12,000 feet directly above Fulstow, resulting in the loss of both aircraft and all 14 aircrew. Debris was spread over a wide area centered on Fulstow. Some buildings were hit, including the Methodist Chapel at Thoresby, about 2 miles north of Fulstow. Luckily, there were no civilians harmed on the ground. 

Fulstow is an ancient village, appearing in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it is named “Fuglestow.” Fulstow has a historical Anglican church dedicated to St. Lawrence, built in the Early English Style in the early 13th Century. The surrounding area is mostly agricultural, focusing on grain and root crops. At one time, the village had two public houses, but one closed in 1969. The post office and general store closed in 2010, and the post office now operates out of the Cross Keys Public House.

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