Pelhams Lands

{{Short description|Part of the parish of Holland Fen with Brothertoft in Lincolnshire, England}}

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| static_image_caption= Pelhams Land Farm

| country = England

| official_name= Pelhams Lands

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| civil_parish = Holland Fen with Brothertoft

| shire_district= Boston

| shire_county = Lincolnshire

| region= East Midlands

| constituency_westminster= Boston and Skegness

| post_town= Lincoln

| postcode_district = LN4

| postcode_area= LN

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| os_grid_reference= TF218524

| london_distance_mi= 105

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Pelhams Lands or Pelhams Land is a former civil parish, now in the parish of Holland Fen with Brothertoft,{{cite web|title=Boston UK Website|url=http://www.bostonuk.com/historydetail.php?id=614&cid=592&f=Boston|publisher=Boston Council|accessdate=5 May 2011|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120728150700/http://www.bostonuk.com/historydetail.php?id=614&cid=592&f=Boston|archivedate=28 July 2012|df=dmy-all}} in the Boston district, in Lincolnshire, England, approximately {{Convert|8|mi|km|0}} north-west from the town of Boston.{{cite map |publisher=Ordnance survey of Great Britain |title=Boston: Tattershall, Billinghay & Heckington |date=13 November 2006 |scale=1:25 000 |series=OS Explorer |section=261 |edition=A1 |isbn=9780319238172}}

The name 'Pelhams Lands' originates from the Pelham family who held land here from 1602. Sir William Pelham owned a woad mill in this area.{{cite web|title=Dispersed settlement of Pelhams Lands, Holland Fen with Brothertoft|url=http://www.lincstothepast.com/Dispersed-settlement-of-Pelhams-Lands--Holland-Fen-with-Brothertoft/242688.record?pt=S |work=Lincs to the Past|ref=MLI86172|publisher=Lincolnshire Archives|accessdate=5 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141111002330/http://www.lincstothepast.com/Dispersed-settlement-of-Pelhams-Lands--Holland-Fen-with-Brothertoft/242688.record?pt=S |archive-date=2014-11-11}} The lands were laid out after the drainage of Holland Fen by Act of Parliament in 1776.{{cite web| title=Pelhams Lands Farmhouse, Holland Fen with Brothertoft, Lincolnshire|url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-192030-pelhams-lands-farmhouse-holland-fen-with|publisher=British Listed Buildings|accessdate=5 May 2011}}

Pelhams-Lands was formerly an extra-parochial tract,{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/place/13421|title=History of Pelhams Lands, in Boston and Lincolnshire|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=31 May 2024}} in 1858 Pelhams Lands became a separate civil parish,{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10446790|title=Relationships and changes Pelhams Lands ExP/CP through time|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=31 May 2024}} on 1 April 1987 the parish was abolished to form Holland Fen with Brothertoft.{{cite web|url=https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/boston.html|title=Boston Registration District|publisher=UKBMD|accessdate=31 May 2024}} Its population in 1831 was 41, and its 19th-century peak was in 1851 with 55. In 1971 it had a population of 64.[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10446790 History of Pelhams Lands]

Pelhams Lands Farm is a late 18th-century red-brick farmhouse and is a Grade II listed building. There are two further Grade II listed 18th-century buildings on the Farm, a stable with granary{{cite web| title=Stables and Granary at Pelhams Lands Farm, Holland Fen with Brothertoft, Lincolnshire|url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-192031-stables-and-granary-at-pelhams-lands-far|publisher=British Listed Buildings|accessdate=5 May 2011}} and an earth closet.{{cite web| title=Earth Closet at Pelhams Lands Farm, North, Holland Fen with Brothertoft, Lincolnshire|url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-192032-earth-closet-at-pelhams-lands-farm-north|publisher=British Listed Buildings|accessdate=5 May 2011}}

There was a tower windmill at Pelhams Lands, built in 1838 to replace an earlier post mill which had blown down. The mill lost its cap in 1926, after which it was engine driven. Now mostly demolished, only a single derelict story remains.{{cite web|title=Lincolnshire Government Website|url=http://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/visiting/windmills/other-windmills/north-kesteven/chapel-hill-mill-pelhams-lands/101435.article|publisher=Lincolnshire County Council|accessdate=5 May 2011}}{{cite web|title=Tower mill, Pelham's Lands, Boston

|work=Lincs to the Past|url=http://www.lincstothepast.com/Tower-mill--Pelham-s-Lands--Boston/241182.record?pt=S|publisher=Lincolnshire Archives|accessdate=5 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304031905/http://www.lincstothepast.com/Tower-mill--Pelham-s-Lands--Boston/241182.record?pt=S |archive-date=2016-03-04}}