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  • This ecclesiastical lighthouse is familiarly called "Boston Stump," and overlooks Lincolnshire, the cradle of

    Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman William Elliot Griffis 1885

  • "The church spire is known in aviation circles as the 'Boston Stump' and appears occasionally on some radars in certain radar propagation conditions."

    EDP24 News 2010

  • Farther north, the church tower of Boston Stump hangs detached in the sky, a blurred color field of brown in gray.

    A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

  • So, watching them as a kind of marvel, we saw distant across the sea a faint blue tower, and recognised it for Boston Stump, so many, many miles away.

    Hills and the Sea Hilaire Belloc 1911

  • For as RAF Neatishead was monitoring the Boston Stump, a series of bright multi-coloured lights was seen at the same time by police in Boston and Skegness and by a ship in the Wash.

    EDP24 News 2010

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