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The original Boston. Boston Lincolnshire is a small town in England which the city in the US was named after. The site for a guide to the town as at www.bostonuk.com . Also see www.bostonuk.co.uk and the site of Boston Borough Council at www.boston.gov.uk, and also The Lincolnshire Standard and This Is Lincolnshire .co.uk
The town of Boston is famous for Boston Stump, the biggest parish church in England, and the Pilgrim Fathers (epic voyage of The Mayflower), who tried to escape from Boston in 1607 with the intent of finding religious freedom in the New World. They were locked up. It was 1630 before they managed to get away.
Boston is very proud of its past, and is a historic town with a lot of nice places for tourists to look at.
Boston Stump is the tallest parish church tower in England. At 272 feet, the tower stands out in the total flatness of Lincolnshire UK. If you're visiting Boston Lincolnshire you can't help but see it. And at night, Boston Stump is spectacularly lit up, bringing complaints from ground-based astronomers and spacemen flying over in orbit.
(Hotly-debated topic that it is!)
Boston Stump is the tallest parish church tower in England.
Or is it? Well, at 272 feet it's quite big, but it's definitely NOT the tallest ecclesiastical building in the UK! There are cathedrals which are bigger, and there are some parish churches which have higher steeples. I am reliably informed by a connoisseur of church towers and steeples that Louth church has a steeple which is 295ft high, which is 23ft higher than Boston Stump. And Coventry's St Michael is 299ft and before 1918 wasn't officially a cathedral! So, why do the people of Boston so proudly claim Boston Stump to be THE BIGGEST or THE TALLEST in some way? It's down to definition. Boston Stump is the tallest parish church (excluding other types of religious sites such as cathedrals, temples, and sacred pagan mountain-tops) (and also excluding other high buildings such as the Telecom Tower and Canary Wharf etc) TOWER (excluding steeples, and also excluding flagpoles, radio masts, and other altitude-enhancers) in England (excluding Scotland, Wales, Ireland, the rest of the UK, and the rest of the world). Now of course you read into this what you will. Clearly Boston does not have the highest church in England, but by careful choice of definition it has claim to a specific title. Also, however it's phrased, Boston Stump is quite big, especially in proportion to the size of the town of Boston. In a way, you can see something very typical of the town by virtue of the fact of this and the way the claim to tallness is phrased. Boston is a place that is very proud!
