In 1805 the recent ‘Inclosure for the lordship of Great Gonerby and Manthorpe cum Little Gonerby’ was reported

The Stamford Mercury on 17 May 1805 reported the details of the recent ‘Inclosure for the lordship of Great Gonerby and Manthorpe cum Little Gonerby’.

It continued ‘Beginning at the North end of a certain street in Grantham, in the said county of Lincoln, called Walkergate [Watergate], at a Bridge there which divides the parish or lordship of Grantham aforesaid from the said lordship of Manthorpe cum Little Gonerby, and proceeding in a westerly direction from thence by the middle of the river Mowbeck, which is the boundary of the said lordship of Manthorpe cum Little Gonerby, and divides the same from the said parish or lordship of Grantham (except through the garden of Joseph Lawrence, Esquire, in Grantham aforesaid, where the bed or course of the said river hath been diverted, for the purpose of building a hot-house, and turned about twenty feet farther into Manthorpe lordship than the same originally ran), as far as the Grange’.

We can see from the article that Walkergate had a bridge over the Mowbeck at the end of the road between there and North Street.

The Mowbeck had also been diverted by Joseph Lawrence so that he could build a hot-house, presumably to grow exotic fruits popular at that time, such as pineapples and bananas.