Pepper Gowt Plot

{{Short description|Hamlet in Lincolnshire, England}}

{{Use British English|date=November 2013}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}}

{{Infobox UK place

| static_image_name= Witham Marsh - geograph.org.uk - 977174.jpg

| static_image_alt=

| static_image_caption= Pepper Gowt, or Rowlands Marsh, now Witham Marsh

| country = England

| official_name= Pepper Gowt Plot

| map_alt=

| coordinates = {{coord|53.002092|-0.051812|display=inline,title}}

| population=

| population_ref=

| civil_parish = Fishtoft

| shire_district= Boston

| shire_county = Lincolnshire

| region= East Midlands

| constituency_westminster= Boston and Skegness

| post_town= Boston

| postcode_district = PE21

| postcode_area= PE

| dial_code= 01205

| os_grid_reference= TF308467

| london_distance_mi= 105

| london_direction= S

}}

Pepper Gowt Plot, also known as Rowlands Marsh, was a hamlet and small tract of extra-parochial land and civil parish, created when the River Witham was straightened in the early 19th century, now in the parish of Fishtoft, in the Boston district, in the county of Lincolnshire, England. It lies about {{convert|2|mi|km|0}} north of the town of Boston, and immediately south of Anton's Gowt.

It was created as a civil parish in 1858,{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10445310|title=North Forty Foot Bank CP/ExP through time|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=31 May 2024}} when the principal land owner was John Rowland.{{cite book|title=Kellys Directory for Lincolnshire|year=1885|publisher=Kelly & Co|url=http://www.historicaldirectories.org/exe/wwt.dll/pdf?fn=e:\hdapps\0000axmc.pdf|authorlink=Pepper Gowt Plot|accessdate=19 July 2011|page=400}} On 1 April 1906 it was abolished and merged with Skirbeck.{{cite web|url=https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/boston.html|title=Boston Registration District|publisher=UKBMD|accessdate=31 May 2024}}{{cite book|title=Kellys Directory for Lincolnshire|year=1919|page=77|publisher=Kelly & Co|url=http://www.historicaldirectories.org/exe/wwt.dll/pdf?fn=e:\hdapps\0000b0wq.pdf|authorlink=Pepper Gowt Plot|accessdate=19 July 2011}} In 1901 the parish had a population of 13.{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10446910/cube/TOT_POP|title=Population statistics Pepper Gowt Plot CP/ExP through time|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=31 May 2024}} In turn, Skirbeck civil parish was abolished in 1932 to enlarge the parishes of Boston and Fishtoft,{{cite web|title=Skirbeck|url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10450822&c_id=10001043|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120917102720/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10450822&c_id=10001043|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 September 2012|work=Vision of Britain|publisher=University of Portsmouth|accessdate=19 July 2011}} Today the area is known as Witham Marsh.