Lincolnshire Heritage Open Days 8th- 11th September 2016

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H ERITAGE L INCOLNSHIRE years celebrating 25 celebrate lincolnshire’s rich h eritage web print design photography tech training Discover Lincolnshire’s rich and varied Heritage for free between Thursday 8th and Sunday 11th September. Welcome to Heritage Lincolnshire’s 2016 Heritage Open Days brochure. Like our Each year the Heritage Open Days festival celebrates the county’s architecture and culture by allowing visitors free access to interesting properties that are either not usually open, or would normally charge an website? entrance fee. It also includes tours, events and activities that focus on and celebrate the local heritage of the area. Heritage Open Days is ’s biggest voluntary cultural event and is also held across Europe. Last year’s heritagelincolnshire.org is events in Lincolnshire alone attracted over 20,000 visitors and involved 600 just one of the local websites volunteers! we look after. Designed, built, hosted and cared for by us. This year our brochure features 180 free events, making this our biggest festival since the first one in 1994! We’ve worked with volunteers and With over a decade in Lincolnshire historic site staff across the county of Lincolnshire to create a programme under our belts, we have clients of events that celebrates not only cultural, built and buried heritage but across the county, several of natural heritage too. These ‘natural Lincolnshire’ events are highlighted by a whom feature in this guide. lapwing throughout this booklet. So whether you’re flicking through this or clicking through that, we’ll On behalf of everyone involved in the organisation be keeping an eye to make sure of Lincolnshire Heritage Open Days 2016 we wish everything runs smoothly. you an enjoyable and exciting few days! Key to symbols You can also find details of the Natural Enquiries Lincolnshire Craven events on our website www.heritagelincolnshire. org, including any alterations to the programme. Special activities DIGITAL If you have any questions please call Heritage for children cravendigital.com Lincolnshire on 01529 461499. Our offices will Refreshments be closed on Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th September. Properties/events “Extremely professional, very friendly and highly accommodating” Cottage Museum which offer their own Booking Please note that some visits, tours, parking facilities 19 YEARS EXPERIENCE talks and walks must be booked in advance and WC Toilets not all events and properties are open on all four Whether you’re looking to take your first steps online or revamp an days. Additional existing site, see what we can do for you at cravendigital.com cost Places are limited, so to avoid disappointment you’re advised to book as soon as possible. Please do not attend a booked Generally suitable for wheelchair users event if you have not pre-booked. Heritage Lincolnshire will “Quite honestly a breath of fresh air in a world full of “Google rating” and other ‘SEO’ related accept bookings during office hours until 5pm on Thursday empty promises. Craven Digital not only create bespoke websites from scratch, but they Partially or 1st September when we will pass the details to the event conditionally suitable have the technical know-how to get the website seen by the audiences you’re trying to organiser. If the booking is made directly with the event for wheelchair users capture! Craven Digital have single handedly transformed my website and business over organiser you may be able to book right up until the day of the the last 18 months, and quite simply is one of the main reasons we’re heading into another profitable year! Keep up the great work!” Andy Holly, Holly Dental event – but remember, the organiser will appreciate prior notice and if you leave it too late all the places may be taken.

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3a St Adelwold's Church & 6 BARTON UPON HUMBER St Mary's Church, , Church Lane, Alvingham, Louth. WC LN11 0QD A Tale of Two Churches - The Gilbertine 6c Wilderspin National School Museum, Monastery and Two Churches in One Queen Street, Barton upon Humber. Church Yard DN18 5QP © All Rights Reserved © by geograph 919746 Lindsey Coates Sunday 11.00-16.00 Lessons from Nature

1a Alford WC Join local historian and author Stuart Sizer as Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday Manor House, he outlines the history of the two churches in West Street, 10.00-16.00 Alford. LN13 9HT one church yard which were once part of the The playground in Wilderspin's school was Centre of Alford on A1104 at LN13 9EP Gilbertine . Guided tour at 14.00 and designed as a space for exercise and play but 15.00 Power to the Farmer’s Elbow and More also to stimulate children's senses. Our garden Saturday 08.00-16.30 and Sunday 11.00- playground is open on each Heritage Open 16.00 4 CREEK All Rights Reserved by David Wright © Day. Check website for programme details www.wilderspinschool.org.uk Saturday vintage tractor rally 08.00-1630, static 4a Anderby Drainage 6a Baysgarth engine display. Sunday threshing day 11.00- Museum, Anderby WC House 6d St Peter's Church, 16.00. Manor House Saturday 10.00-16.30 Creek, near . Museum, WC Pasture Road, Barton and Sunday 12.00-16.00 , Hackett Barn Rural PE24 5XW Baysgarth Park, Road, Barton Upon Upon Humber. DN18 5EX Museum Saturday 09.30-16.30 and Sunday Humber. DN18 6AH Engines and Exhibits at Anderby St Peter's Church 12.00-16.00, garden, Tea Room and WWI Living History: Bringing the Past to Life Drainage Museum Follow the brown sign. centenary exhibition open see website for at Baysgarth House Museum Saturday 13.00-16.00 Sunday 10.00-15.00 details [email protected] Come and see the museum's two Ruston twin Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 12.00-16.00 Tours and Trails last This famous Anglo Saxon and medieval church cylinder engines running plus other interesting is an archaeological as well as an architectural 2 ALGARKIRK approximately 45 minutes exhibits and displays in this Drainage Board treasure. Last admission 14.30. Admission pumping station built in 1945. Join us at Baysgarth House museum for trails 2a Church of WC Thursday - Sunday, costumed interpretation free by kind permission of English Heritage. St Peter & St Saturday, guided tours Saturday and Sunday Check website for full 'behind closed doors' Paul, Church 5 BARDNEY programme www.bartoncivicsociety.co.uk Lane, Algarkirk. PE20 2HH and more! For a limited time only, catch a 5a St Lawrence's glimpse of the varied history of the house Medieval Mirth, Medicine & Magic Church, brought to life. Refreshments available. 6e Joseph WC Sunday 12.00-16.00 Church Lane, Bardney. Wright Hall, Step back in time at St Peter and St Paul's LN3 5TZ Queen Street, church where you will be surrounded by the 6b The Old Barton Upon Humber. DN18 5QP The 45th Kitching Lecture - "The Tile Works, sights, smells and excitement of medieval times Remarkable Story of Lincolnshire's Far Ings Road, Behind Closed Doors including performances of 15th century dances Winifred Dallas Yorke" Barton Upon Humber. WC Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday by the magnificent Danserye. DN18 5AZ 10.00-16.00 Thursday 19.30-21.00 A rare opportunity to look inside some of This lecture by Jean Howard outlines the Discover the Old Tile Works 2b Church of Barton's interesting buildings. Behind Closed WC remarkable life of Lincolnshire's beautiful Thursday, Friday and Saturday 10.00- St Peter & Doors exhibition by the Wilderspin Art Winifred Dallas Yorke who as Duchess of 16.00 St Paul, Group, and display of children's maps in the Church Lane, Algarkirk. PE20 2HH Portland gave life long support to charities from Come and discover our tile works, dating back to the early 1800s, operating using traditional Joseph Wright Hall. Check website for full Lincoln Heritage Music Festival - the Red Cross, RSPB, RSPCA to war refugees. methods and techniques. Visit the shop and programme www.bartoncivicsociety.co.uk Grantham Danserye restaurant for gifts and refreshments. Sunday 12.00-16.00 Members of Grantham Danserye will perform historic dances from the 16th century in costume.

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6f 7b Meet at WC Explore, discover, experience... Lincolnshire Stourton Blow Wells, Estates. Beckhill, LN9 5NL WC Barton Upon Access off A158, 1 mile Lincoln side of Humber. DN18 5EY ( LN9 5NL) TF 206748. Look out for North on the A15 take last exit before Humber signs on the roadside 'Clays Lane'. Bridge at roundabout take 3rd exit A1077 Barton Upon Humber. Right at Holydyke, Stourton Estate - History Safari turn left at crossroads with Whitecross Street, Saturday 10.00 & 15.00 Barton Blow Well is on the left between the two Guide:Antony Strawson Churches. O/S TA034220 Booking Essential Contact: 01507 578236 Lincolnshire Blow Wells: A chance to Stourton Estates Office In the heart of rural Lincolnshire, hear about a unique natural feature in Climb aboard the 'Time Tractor' and explore the an area of endless countryside and charming villages... the . historic landscape of the Stourton Estate. See Fascinating places to visit in the Aviation Heritage Saturday and Sunday 15.00-16.00 our lost medieval village, Victorian water tower, who knows Guide:Jonathan Gahan WWII bomb craters, Tudor ruins and so much District... whatever the weather! Heritage Sites Countryside Walks An opportunity to visit a unique natural feature more. what you’ll Arts and Crafts in the Lincolnshire landscape. Hear how they discover! are formed, the rare habitats and species 8 BELTON they support. Learn about their historical For information on other attractions, leisure facilities, walking activities, or a copy connections with settlements and religion. of our visitor guide, call: 01529 308207, email: [email protected] or tweet: @discover_nk www.heartoflincs.com 6g Tyrwhitt Hall, Beck Hill, WC North Kesteven District Council Barton-Upon-Humber. DN18 5EY A Complete Late Medieval Timber- framed Hall Sunday 14.00-16.00 Guide:Richard Clarke 8a Belton House WC H ERITAGE L INCOLNSHIRE A rare opportunity! With the temporary closure years (National Trust), celebrating 25 of 51 Fleetgate (for repairs) the owner of Grantham. NG32 2LS south lincolnshire Tyrwhitt Hall has kindly agreed to open the By road: on A607 Grantham to Lincoln road, p - 30 Oct Se 201 large timber-framed hall there to the public. signposted from the A1. 24 6

Explore Belton House South Lincolnshire 7 BAUMBER Walking Festival Saturday 9.30-17.30 Walking Come and explore Belton House as it throws 7a Lakeside WC Festival w m w o Fishery, open its doors for Heritage Open Days. Explore w .c .so ing Lincoln Road, - 30 O uthlincswalk the mansion, indoor and outdoor play areas, Sep ct 2 Baumber. LN9 5NW gardens, parkland, pleasure grounds and stop 24 01 2 miles west of the village alongside the A158 by the restaurants and shops. 6 Baumber Brickyard Discover the hidden Sunday 11.00-15.30 8b Belton WC Visit a rare restored brick kiln and learn Lincolnshire treasures of South how bricks were made in the Lincolnshire Chair Museum Lincolnshire. countryside in Victorian times. Event arranged at Belton House, Grantham. NG32 2LS by the Society for Lincolnshire History and Beautiful Antiques Locally Made Heritage and nature walks, Archaeology. Saturday 09.30-16.00 photography forays, dog ‘walkies’ The largest ever exhibition of Lincolnshire and more..... Windsor and Rush seated chairs, drawn from several private collections. Never has such an Tel No. 01529 461499 ensemble of C17 & C18 regional furniture been www.southlincswalking.com gathered for public display. #SLWF [email protected]

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12 BOURNE 11e Boston WC Guildhall, 12a Baldocks Mill, South Street, WC 9 BENINGTON 21, South Street, 11b Meet at Bargate Bridge Boston. PE21 6HT Bourne. PE10 9LY east end Wide Bargate, 9a All Saints' Church, Bargate Boston, Naturally Fashion and Racing in Days Gone By Main Road, Benington. Lodge. PE21 6SF Thursday, Friday and Saturday 10.30- Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday PE22 0BT O/S TF331446 15.30 Last admission 15.00 12.00-16.00 Tour of Benington Church Grand Houses along the Maud Foster The works of Jean Ingelow and W B Thomas Housed in an old watermill, the museum Sunday 14.00-15.00 Saturday 14.00-16.00 Guide: Neil Wright are included alongside other material from the contains three floors of exhibitions. Visit the A tour that will look at the history and This walk will follow the ribbon of desirable museum collection, to illustrate through paint stunning Charles Worth gallery or experience architecture of Benington, All Saints and detail homes that were built in Georgian times and word, the natural beauty of Boston and the the life of racing driver Raymond Mays as well how the closed church is to be conserved and alongside the "natural" environment of the surrounding fens and waterways. as an insight into old local industries. adapted for community and events use. Tour Maud Foster Drain on the eastern edge of lasts approximately 1 hour. Boston. Arranged by SLHA. 13 BRACKENBOROUGH

10 13a WC 11c St Botolph’s Parish WC Brackenborough Church (Boston Stump) Hall, Louth, Lincs. 10a RAF Binbrook WC Heritage Centre, Library, 1, Wormgate, LN11 0NS Hughie Edwards Boston. PE21 6NW 2 miles north of Louth Way, Binbrook Technical Park, Brookenby, Parish Library Brackenborough Hall, Deserted Lincs. LN8 6HF Thursday, Friday and Saturday 10.00- Medieval Village, Farm & Nature Walk Follow signs for Chestnut Trading, CK Group, 15.00 Talk each day at 11.00, 12.00, Classic Furniture. Over the speed bumps, bear Sunday 10.30 & 14.30 right to the front of the hangars, on the left in of 13.00 and 14.00 and last approx 20 mins Booking Essential Contact: 01507 603193 front of the middle hangar. (TF197957) Speaker: E. Napier Paul & Flora Bennett In 1634, Archbishop Laud's visitation Top of the Wolds Wonder Guided walk around Brackenborough Hall, recommended that there should be a library gardens, conversion of Coach House to holiday Thursday, Friday Saturday and Sunday here 'for the good of the clergy'. Now we have 10.30-18.00 Guide: Ray Whiteley apartments, deserted medieval village and farm over 1500 volumes. A chance to visit this library 11f Boston Booking Essential Contact: 07580 884536 (for WC with special reference to the natural world and that is usually open by appointment. Note the Cemetery & night experience only) environmental schemes. Directions on booking church is wheelchair friendly but access to the Crematorium, Why not visit us and enjoy a picnic in the Marian Road, Boston. PE21 9HA or see website www.brackenboroughhall.com library is by 24 steep steps. Bomber Command Memorial Park? Get up 'A Beautiful Space and a Tranquil Place' close to an EE Lightning jet Fighter or arrange 14 BRANSBY 11d Meet at the Gift - Boston Victorian Cemetery Open Day a night visit (weather permitting) to experience WC Shop St Botolph’s Sunday 10.30-16.00 14a our incredible Lincolnshire clear night skies! Parish Church Join the Friends of Boston Cemetery and Bransby Horses (Boston Stump) explore the natural heritage of this beautiful 11 BOSTON Rescue & Welfare, WC Market Place, Boston. site. Come and find out more about its history, Bransby. PE21 6NW wildlife and other special qualities. Nature tours 11a Meet at Ingram Memorial LN1 2PH Statue in Market Place, Discover Boston's Greatest Treasure at 11.00 & 14.00, Gravestone tours at 12.00 & Bransby Horses Tour Boston. Thursday, Friday and Saturday 11.00- 15.00 during the day. Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday PE21 6NP 12.00 Sunday 14.00-15.00 10.00-16.00

Grand Houses on the Riverbank Booking Essential Contact: 01205 316130 11g Fydell House, WC Visit Bransby Horses! Experience our guided Saturday 10.00-12.00 Guide: Neil Wright William Cully / Karen Lawson email tours@ South Street, Boston. PE21 6HU tours. Learn about our history and our This walk will explore both banks of the river parishofboston.co.uk (groups of 5+ need to wonderful rescued animals. Tour at 13.30 Georgian Garden Witham, which was a "natural" setting for fine pre-book) each day. Meet at the gift shop. Enjoy a free houses built in Boston in Georgian times. Take a tour through 700 years of Saint Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday tea or coffee in our Feedroom Café. Arranged by the Society for Lincolnshire History Botolph's church and the part it has played 10.00-16.00 and Archaeology. in the history of England and America. £4.00 House and Garden open at Fydell House, charge to climb 209 steps up the tower. beautiful 18th century mansion in the centre of Boston.

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15 BRANT BROUGHTON 18 BURRINGHAM 22 20b Meet at Caistor WC 15a Quaker Meeting 18a Church of St John the Arts & Heritage Centre, WC 28, Plough Hill, Caistor. House, 3, Meeting Baptist, High Street, Burringham. House Lane, Brant DN17 3LY LN7 6LZ Broughton. LN5 0SH SS Teulon: Victorian Architect Heritage Town Walk Sunday 14.00-16.00 Meeting House Lane is opposite 'Generous Meet at Caistor Arts & Heritage Centre and Briton Public House'. Sunday 13.00-16.00 Samuel Sander Teulon, renowned Victorian explore the squares, springs and secrets of Living Simply - A Quaker Way architect and friend of George Gilbert Scott. Caistor with local expert Don Morgan. Come Thursday, Friday and Saturday 10.00- This event will explore this fascinating church early and view Heritage Lincolnshire's 25th 16.00 Sunday 13.00-16.00 where an installation on the architect by his Anniversary Photography Exhibition and Rachel Display of ways to live more simply in harmony great nephew Alan Teulon will be on display. Olin's sculpture. Refreshments available. with nature. Find peace and inspiration in our 22a Cleethorpes WC Town Hall, Knoll beautiful C17 Meeting House and heritage 19 BUSLINGTHORPE 20c Meet at Caistor Arts & Street, room, surrounded by lovingly tended gardens. Heritage Centre, 28, Plough Hill, Cleethorpes. DN35 8LN Refreshments in historic barn and gardens. 19a St Michael's Church, Caistor. LN7 6LZ "Cleethorpes Town Hall" Buslingthorpe. . "Walking the Valley and Escarpment - LN3 5AT Saturday 10.00-16.00 16 TF 079851 Caistor to Nettleton Top and Back!" Cleethorpes Town Hall is a beautiful Baroque 16a Brigg Saturday 13.00-17.00 building which hosts a variety of civic regalia. WC Relics of the Medieval Past An opportunity to discover some of the special Heritage Sunday 13.00-16.00 Why not visit and meet some of the characters Centre, heritage and natural features of the Lincolnshire associated with its past. Also learn more about CCT volunteers will help visitors gain an Above the Library, The Angel, Market Place, Wolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty on its resident ghost! Brigg. DN20 8LD understanding of the small church of St this strenuous circular walk from Caistor to Michael's, containing two rare medieval "All Things Bright and Beautiful". Nettleton Top - stunning views assured. 7 miles. memorials and a number of impressive 22b WC Thursday and Friday 10.00-14.00 Cleethorpes Saturday 10.00-15.00 monuments to local families who served in the 20d Caistor Arts & Heritage Centre, Town Hall, Photographic exhibition by Barton Camera armed forces. 28, Plough Hill, Caistor. LN7 6LZ Knoll Street, Club showcasing the beauty of the Ancholme Lincolnshire’s Walking Woolly Fortune Cleethorpes. DN35 8LN Valley and the varied life within it. Displays of 20 CAISTOR Sunday 10.00-16.00 Guide: Steve Jack "Submerged Forest in Cleethorpes" photographic equipment past and present will Rachel Olin's latest sculpture celebrates Saturday 11.00 & 14.00 enhance the visitor experience to the Heritage Lincolnshire's trading and agricultural history; Learn about the submerged forest in Centre. specifically, the Lincolnshire Longwool Sheep. Cleethorpes. Archaeologist Megan Clement A breed regarded as one of our nation's most will provide a talk on the prehistoric submerged 17 important breeds. Meet the artist between 10.30 landscape of the Foreshore. Talk lasts approximately 45 minutes 17a and 11.30 WC All Rights Reserved © Arts & by Caistor Heritage Centre St Phillip's 22c Meet at Slipway to Beach at Church, South 20a Caistor Arts 21 CLAXBY Ormsby Road, Brinkhill. LN11 8QX WC North End of North Promenade, & Heritage Centre, 21a Meet at St Mary’s Church, Cleethorpes. DN35 8SJ Natural Brinkhill - Learn about the 28, Plough Hill, St Mary’s Lane, Claxby, Lincs. Guided Walk of the Submerged Birds and Bees… Caistor. LN7 6LZ LN8 3YX Saturday and Sunday 14.00-17.00 Lincolnshire's Heritage Through the O/S reference TF 11147 94596. Prehistoric Landscape of Cleethorpes Flowers and trees and all things natural with Lens Thursday 14.30-15.30 Claxby Ironstone Mine Geology Walk Booking Essential Contact: 01904 521249 / the Brinkhill History Group and the Saturday 10.00-16.00 Sunday 10.00-13.00 Guide: Paul Hildreth Bee-keepers. A brief walk through Brinkhill to Exhibition of winning photographs from Heritage 07718 570386 Megan Clement Booking Essential Contact: 01472 851105 Join the CITIZAN archaeologists to discover glimpse medieval moats. History displays, Lincolnshire's 2016 Photographic Competition, John Esser, e-mail [email protected] children's quiz and observation beehive at the 'My Favourite Historic Place in Lincolnshire'. Cleethorpes hidden prehistoric landscape. The walk traverses the Lower Cretaceous This guided walk will include the 4000 year old Church Meet the winning photographers between 11.30 sediments within which the Claxby Ironstone and 13.00. Prize giving at 12.00 preserved forest, a newly discovered ancient Formation is found. The site of the original trackway and other tidal archaeology usually Claxby Iron stone Mine will be visited and submerged by the sea. its relationship with the surrounding geology explored.

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23a Cranwell WC 25a Meet at Crowle Moor Car Park, Aviation Crowle. DN17 4BL Heritage Industrial Heritage of Crowle Centre, Heath Farm, North Rauceby, Enjoying Lincolnshire’s . NG34 8QR & Thorne Moors Heritage Open Days Festival? From Balloons to Jets: Discover the Sunday 10.00-15.30 History of RAF Cranwell Booking Essential Contact: 07739 921835 We’ve co-ordinated it since 1994! Sunday 10.30-15.30 Angus Townley [email protected] Discover the fascinating history of the first Crowle and Thorne Moor form the largest area Military Air Academy in the world. There are of lowland peatbog in the country. This walk of free refreshments and children can pit their wits approximately 12 miles will look at the industrial against our cunning trail! heritage that has shaped this wild landscape.

24 25b Meet at Potts Lane car park, Crowle. DN17 4DR Industrial Heritage of the Isle of Axholme - Minibus Tour Saturday 10.00-16.30 Booking Essential Contact: 07739 921835 Angus Townley [email protected] Find out about the interesting heritage of that part of Lincolnshire to the east of the River Membership is a way of showing that you Trent: Pumping stations; light railways; flax care about your local heritage. industry; peatland railway; bridges; canals; rivers and more By joining Heritage Lincolnshire you will be directly contributing 26 DEEPING ST NICHOLAS to the conservation and enhancement of the county’s rich and © All Rights Reserved by geograph © 59725 by Dennis Smith wonderful historic buildings, landscapes and archaeology which may, without your help, disappear forever. 24a Crowland WC Abbey, East Street, Becoming a supporter member enables you to support our educational, Crowland. PE6 0EN Just off A16 between Spalding and volunteering and leisure activities, all of which encourage people Peterborough to explore the heritage of the area and to become actively Abbey Heritage Tours, Town Trail and involved in its conservation. Bell Ringing Experience All Rights Reserved © Wildlife by Trust

Abbey Heritage Tours Thursday, Friday, 26a Vine House Farm, WC Saturday and Sunday 11.00-16.00. Town Main Road, Deeping Trail Saturday and Sunday at 12.00. Bell St Nicholas. PE11 3DG Ringing Experience Saturday and Sunday Vine House Farm Agricultural Hand Visit www.heritagelincolnshire.org 14.30-15.30 Tool Museum to find out more or to support us with a donation Booking Essential Contact: 07761 549865 Saturday and Sunday 10.00-16.00 David Searle (Bell Tower only) A well displayed wide range of agricultural Tel: 01529 461499 Bell ringing. Listen, experience and (fitness hand tools accumulated over the last 30 Email: [email protected] permitting) climb 110 steps to the Bell Tower years, each piece with its own detailed history Heritage Lincolnshire, The Old School, Cameron Street, and see the famous bells, first to be broadcast of use. Take a look round our farm shop! Heckington, Lincolnshire NG34 9RW & longest ropes in UK. There have been bells at Crowland since C10 and were the first set of tuned bells.

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27a Dowsby WC 29a RSPB, WC 30b Gainsborough General 32b Gibraltar Hall, Dowsby. Frampton Cemetery, Cox's Hill (Former Point National PE10 0TL Marsh, Hickman Hill). DN21 1HH Nature Reserve Dowsby (B1177) north of Bourne, up Farm Lane Frampton Roads, Frampton. PE20 1AY Entrance opposite the Hickman Hill Hotel and Visitor Centre, WC (Hall Farm only) in centre of Dowsby), Hall on A Haven for Wildlife near the Water Tower. Gibraltar Road, Skegness. PE24 4SU left. Friday 09.45 walk will last approximately "Fallen Sons of Gainsborough" Discover Dowsby Hall and Grounds 3-4 hours Sunday 10.00-15.00 The Lives and Times of Saturday and Sunday 14.00-17.00 Booking Essential Contact: 01205 724678 The Friends have restored over fifty headstones Saturday 11.00-15.00 Booking Essential Contact: 01778 440573 Chris Andrews which remember local soldiers buried abroad. Wander down memory lane in our exciting Mrs Jennings is one of the world's best places for The project won a Certificate of Excellence new visitor centre. Discover the part Gibraltar Discover how the house was altered in the C17 birds. This walk will take you down the Haven in the 2015 Flora Murray Awards. Cemetery Point has played in people's lives throughout and after. A short introduction by Mr Jennings to the river mouth, looking for wildlife and guided walks (approximately 30 mins) and the years at our family drop-in event, including before a tour of the house by guides. Videos of hearing about the history along the way. display in the Cemetery Chapel. children's activities and family trail. various animals entering large garden at night 32c Gibraltar from surrounding farmland. 29b RSPB, WC 31 Frampton Point National Marsh, 31a Gayton Engine Nature Reserve 28 EAST WC WC Frampton Roads, Frampton. PE20 1AY Pumping Station, Visitor Centre, Thacker Bank, Gibraltar Road, Frampton Marsh: Potatoes to Plovers Skegness. PE24 4SU Saturday and Sunday 10.00 walk will . LN12 1PE Gibraltar Point History Trail last approximately 1 hour Guide: Chris Gayton Engine Pumping Station, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday Andrews Thacker Bank, Theddlethorpe All Once agricultural land, the reserve at Frampton 10.00-17.00 Saints. LN12 1PE For centuries people living and working around Marsh is a wonderful example of the land Saturday and Sunday 14.00-16.00 returning to nature. This gentle walk will Gibraltar Point have left their mark. Our self- Restored in 1993, visitors can view the Victorian guided trail will reveal the reserve's Victorian explore the history of the site whilst showing off building, built to drain water from Gayton Fen some of its great wildlife. and wartime secrets. Available from the new and Marsh with its 1936 Petter engine pumping visitor centre. water. Land drainage exhibits can be viewed in 30 GAINSBOROUGH the museum area. 32d Gibraltar Point National 28a Manor Farm Cottage, 32 GIBRALTAR POINT Nature Reserve WC Visitor Centre, WC East Firsby, Market 32a Gibraltar Rasen. LN8 2DB Gibraltar Road, Point National Skegness. PE24 4SU Meet the Saxons at Saxon House Nature Reserve WC Gibraltar Point: A Place with a Past Friday and Sunday 14.00-15.30 Visitor Centre, Guide: Steve and Jude Jones Gibraltar Road, Saturday 12:00 and 14:00 (Talk will last Skegness. PE24 4SU approximately 30 minutes) Booking Essential Contact: 01673 878636 Historical Gibraltar Point Photo The Wainfleet Haven was a hub of activity 07766 227359 Jude Jones All Rights Reserved by © Richard Croft attracting people from all around. Join us in the Saxon house is an archaeologically accurate Exhibition old coastguard station to uncover the stories of centre for exploring the life and culture of the 30a WC Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday Gainsborough the community that established the hamlet of early medieval period. With Aelric and Elfrida, 10.00-17.00 Old Hall, Gibraltar Point: always a hub for people and Gibraltar. step back into the day to day world of a 7th Parnell Street, Gainsborough. DN21 2NB century Saxon family. trade. Dating back to Victorian times our Medieval Herb Garden and Hall photography exhibition shows how both the Saturday and Sunday 10.00-1700 nature and the people have changed through A chance to see the Hall with guided tours and the years. In the old Coastguard Station. demonstrations of the use of herbs for medicine and cookery through the medieval period. With a family quiz and costumed guides and crafts for children.

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32e Meet at WC 33c St Wulfram's WC Visitors Parish Church, Centre Church Street, Car Park Gibraltar Point National Nature Grantham. NG31 6RR 33f Brown & Co, Granta Hall, 35b Town Hall, WC Town Hall Square, Reserve, Gibraltar Road, Skegness. St Wulfram's Church 6 Finkin Street, Grantham. PE24 4SU NG31 6QZ Grimsby. DN31 1HX Saturday 10.00-16.00 Grimsby Town Hall Autumn Migration: The Big Day List "The Glory of Grantham" is open to all with A Chance to be Philosophical - Visit the Friday and Saturday 10.00-16.00 Saturday 07.00-19.00 tower tours, the Trigg Library, the visitor centre, Former Reading Room of the Grantham Discover the heritage of Grimsby Town Hall built Booking Essential Contact: 01754 898079 Mr the Crypt, the Coffee Shop, music, singing and Philosophical Society in 1863. Explore the building to see the Old Doan email [email protected] a great welcome. Also take a glimpse at the Saturday 10.30-13.00 Police Cells and Magistrates Court and wander Is it possible to see 100 bird species in one Church records. Grantham’s Philosophical and Scientific library day? Join our local expert for visible migration, Museum and Dispensary were housed in around the dark and twisting corridors of the waders, waterbirds, migrants and raptors purpose-built neo-classical premises in 1838. Time Trap Museum. 33d Christchurch, WC Finkin Street, Visit this octagonal reading room and see 33 GRANTHAM Grantham. NG31 6QZ furniture from the Bank of England courtesy of Lincolnshire Traditional Craft, Corn Brown & Co. 33a The Old King’s WC 35c Holy Trinity School, Church Street, Dolly Demonstration at Grade II Listed and St Mary WC Grantham. NG31 6RR Christ Church opened 1841. 34 GREAT LIMBER the Virgin, Can enter from Brook Street, Grantham or the Saturday 10.00-16.00 and Sunday 14.00- 34a High Street (A18), Church Lane, Old Clee, Grimsby. DN32 8LA main school. 16.00 Great Limber, Grimsby. DN37 8JL Open Weekend in the Ancient Hamlet of The Old King's School of Sir Isaac Walk around this Grade II Listed Church O/S reference TA 133089 Old Clee, Grimsby Newton opened in 1841 and attended by Margaret Mausoleum Designed by James Wyatt Friday 13.00-16.00, Saturday 10.00-16.00 Saturday 09.30-14.30 Roberts (Margaret Thatcher). Saturday 10.00 in a Natural Woodland Setting and Sunday 14.00-16.00 Come and see Isaac Newton's schoolroom – 14.00 Corn Dolly demonstrations. Have a go Thursday 11.00-16.00 Guide: Gill Franklin Booking Essential Contact: 01472 581570 which Bishop Fox endowed in 1528. See a at making a basic Corn Dolly. Learn the history Mausoleum completed 1792 by fashionable Revd. Richard Holden (Church tour only) display of school archives: pictures, uniforms, of this traditional craft, and see a selection of architect of his day James Wyatt as a memorial Holy Trinity and St Mary the Virgin Old Clee governor's minute book from the 19th century. different Corn Dolly patterns from around the to Sophia Aufrere the wife of the 1st Lord Grimsby. View the 11th century Grade I listed Isaac Newton apple tree in the Head's garden. world. Yarborough. A peaceful place within stunning church and nine Grade II listed cottages. Brocklesby Estate woodland. Award in Britain in Bloom 2015. Archaeological photographic history and children's event on 35 GRIMSBY Saturday.

35a St. Mary 36 GRIMSTHORPE on the Sea Catholic 36a Meet at WC Church, Heneage Grimsthorpe Road, Grimsby. Castle visitor

© Copyright National Trust WC DN32 9DZ car park PE10 0LZ © Copyright Richard Croft 33e Grantham Grimsby's Hidden Gem of the East Let the Trees Speak House Marsh Thursday 11.00-13.00 33b Old Burial Ground, Manthorpe Road, (National Friday 13.00-16.00 and Saturday 11.00- Booking Essential Contact: 01778 591205 Mr Grantham. NG31 8DB WC Trust), Castlegate, 16.00 Biggs Opposite Slate Mill Place, near to the petrol Grantham. NG31 6SS Grade II listed Catholic church dedicated in Stroll amongst ancient oak pasture and station. Grantham House Gardens 1883 is one of the most beautiful buildings discover the ways it has been utilised over the Opening the 'Secret' Graveyard! Sunday 14.00-16.30 largely unknown in North East Lincolnshire. centuries. From deer larder to festival site. Sunday 13.00-15.30 One of the oldest buildings in Grantham with Of austere appearance outside most certainly Enjoy the atmosphere of this special place. Opened in 1813 and closed in 1857, this sacred beautiful riverside gardens and specimen gives the visitor the wow factor on entering its and secret place has lain undisturbed for 159 plants, shrubs and trees. We hope to serve doors. years. Full of flowers and trees and well worth refreshments. Parking is in the adjacent a visit! paddock just before the house in Castlegate

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37 GUNBY in the 1830s, with Anthony Salvin (architect) 40b WC responsible for the exterior. It is an exuberant St Andrew’s merging of styles, which must be seen to be Church, believed. An unforgettable experience. Church Street, Heckington. NG34 9RW Turn of the A17 into Heckington and at The 39 HEALING Green turn into Church Street

39a Meet at WC Nature’s presence in Decorated Gothic Healing Stone Sculpture at St Andrew’s Church Station, Station Road, Healing. DN37 7RY Heckington Watercress Walk Thursday and Friday 10.00-17.00 (Guided tours by appointment) Saturday 10.00- Saturday 13.00-14.00 16.00 and Sunday 13.00-16.00 Children's 37a Gunby Hall WC Booking Essential Contact: 07788 865191 & Gardens trail any time. (National Emma Lingard Booking Essential Contact: 01529 460306 Ms Trust), Gunby, . PE23 5SS Explore the history of Healing's watercress Pinchbeck Between Spilsby and Skegness on the A158. industry on this guided walk. Afternoon tea Come and visit St. Andrew's church Heckington 41b ROC Post, Entrance off the Gunby roundabout is available and will be served in the former and discover how the intricate organic forms WC manager's cottage which is now a guesthouse. Washway Road, Holbeach. Discover Gunby Estate, Hall and of Mother nature influenced the medieval mind PE12 7PP Gardens and the sculptural artistry of the awe inspiring From the A17 eastbound, take the first left after Sunday 11.00-17.00 40 HECKINGTON decorated Gothic style at its very best. the Holbeach roundabout into Penny Hill Road, Explore eight acre gardens, three floors of the then take the second right on to Toll’s Lane, at house and 1500 acres of grounds. Finish your the end of which turn right, the bunker is on the 41 HOLBEACH left 100 yards ahead. TF3645926342 visit with a cuppa and a treat in the tea-room. Picnics and dogs on leads welcome in the Holbeach Hidden Cold War Bunker gardens. Sunday 11.00-15.00 tours at 11.00, 1145, 12.30, 13.15 & 14.00 and last 38 HARLAXTON approximately 45 mins Booking Essential Contact: 01529 461499 HTL Put on a hard hat and descend the ladder into a recent but almost forgotten chapter in Lincolnshire's history. Discover how the volunteers who trained here used to monitor in case of a nuclear attack. WC 42 HORNCASTLE © Copyright B Gormley

© Copyright John Sutton 41a Holbeach Cemetery 40a 42a Sir Joseph WC Heckington Chapels 12, Park Road, Banks Centre, Holbeach. PE12 7EE Bridge Street, 38a Harlaxton Manor, WC Windmill, Harlaxton, Grantham. 4 - 6 Hale Road, Holbeach Cemetery lies off Park Road and is Horncastle. LN9 5HZ NG32 1AG Heckington. NG34 9JW only a short distance from the traffic lights in the town centre. Preserving our Natural History The main entrance is opposite the Gregory Heckington Windmill Trust Friday and Saturday 10.00-16.00 Public House on the A607 between Grantham Explore the Wealth of Wildlife and and Melton Mowbray Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday Sir Joseph Banks, botanist invites you to 12.00-1700 History in Holbeach Cemetery see the Seaward herbarium at his centre in "Harlaxton: A Home Like No Other" Natural Lincolnshire food demonstrated in the Saturday 10.00-16.00 Horncastle. This unique collection of mainly Sunday, tours at 13.00, 14.00, 15.00 & bake house and brewing in the brewery. Wind A trail created round the cemetery and chapels local plants is rarely open to the public. See 16.00 permitting we will mill wheat for flour or barley will give opportunities to learn more about also the garden in his honour. Booking Essential Contact: 01476 403000 for brewing. Food and drink will be available in local history and the environment, while Main reception the tea room also providing a forum for reminiscing about Visit Harlaxton Manor, built by Gregory Gregory Holbeach families.

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48 LINCOLN 43 HOUGH ON THE HILL 46 KIRTON 48d St Mary's Guildhall, WC 48a Heritage Skills 385, High Street, WC Lincoln. LN5 7SF 43a Meet on WC 46a St Peter & St Paul WC Centre, Lincoln High Road by Church, Willington Road, Castle, King Henry's Town House the Church Kirton. PE20 1EG Castle Hill, Lincoln. LN1 3AA Lych-Gate Hough-on-the-Hill. NG32 2AZ The church is situated in the middle of Kirton Saturday 10.00-16.00 O/S reference SK 922463 village 4 miles south of Boston. Get Hands on with Traditional Skills St Mary's Guildhall may be the only survivor Saturday and Sunday 10.00-16.00 of King Henry II's town houses. Take a tour Saturday and Sunday 14.30-15.15 Life and Times of Dame Sarah Swift, Interested in traditional skills and craft? Come (approximately 20 mins) of the Courtyard Guide: Ian Thompson Founder of the Royal College of along to Lincoln's Heritage Skills centre to see not normally open. Look at the 'Fosse Way' Explore Hough's rare and ancient system of Nursing wells, including petrifying, chalybeate and craftspeople demonstrate their trade and have incorporated in its foundations. Refreshments Saturday 10.00-15.00 and Sunday 13.00- a go yourself. All of the skills demonstrated are available. medicinal springs. Learn about Rag-wells and 15.00 (talk at 13.30 both days and lasts other strange folk customs. Free literature approximately 1 hour). Speaker: Carol tasters of the types of courses available to take available at the conclusion of the tour. Lidgett at the centre. 48e Meet at Visitor Information Centre, Come and hear the story of the life and times Castle Hill, Lincoln. LN1 3AA 44 HOWELL of a local woman who nursed soldiers during 48b Lincoln WC Cathedral, Lincoln's Jewish Heritage Trail - Myths, World War I and went on to found the Royal 44a St Oswald's Church, Minster Yard, Lies and the Truth College of Nursing commemorated in our Howell. NG34 9PT Lincoln. LN2 1PX Sunday 13.30-15.30 O/S reference TF 135462 church. Lincoln Cathedral: Booking Essential Contact: 01522 692738 A Tour of Howell's Deserted Medieval Experience and Explore Dorothy Moss (answer 'phone available) Village Saturday 09.00-16.00 Taking in the Cathedral, Steep Hill, Jews' Sunday 14.30-15.30 Guide: Chris Ayers Children's paper crafts and calligraphy free in Court and other Jewish buildings. Hear the Meet at St Oswald's Church for a guided stroll the Library from 10.00 - 16.00. Floor, Roof and truth behind the libels and myths against Jews around the Deserted Medieval Village of Howell Tower tours available from 10.00 - 15.00 £4.00 in a different era of Lincoln's past. Tour lasts and the moated site of Howell Manor. p.p. (over 14yrs only, restrictions apply) Limited approximately 2 hours. places, book in person on the Saturday from 45 09.15. 46b The Old King's Head, High Street, Kirton. PE20 1EG Last Orders at the Old King's Head 48c Lincoln Cathedral Works Friday tours at 11.00, 11.30, 13.30 and Department, 28, 15.00 Guide: Liz Bates Eastgate, Lincoln. LN2 4AA Booking Essential Contact: 01529 461499 Lincoln Cathedral Workshop HTL Saturday 10.00-16.00

A chance to see The Old King's Head in The public will have access to masonry, glazing © Copyright Richard Croft Kirton before Heritage Lincolnshire begins its (no wheelchair access), conservation, plumbing

© Copyright Richard Croft 48f restoration. Discover the amazing history of and joinery workshops gaining an insight into WC this 15th century inn and hear about its exciting Hartsholme the skills and crafts involved with maintaining Country Park, future. and restoring Lincoln Cathedral and the 45a St Leonards WC Skellingthorpe Road, Lincoln. LN6 0EY Church & Kirkstead close house properties. Under 18's must be Discover Hartsholme Country Park Abbey Ruins, Abbey 47 accompanied by an adult. Lane, Kirkstead. LN10 6UH Friday 11.00 walk lasts approximately 47a All Saints' Church, From Woodhall Spa take the B1191 turn left at WC 2 hrs Church Lane, Legbourne, Booking Essential Contact: 01522 873735 Abbey Lane at right angled bend turn down farm Louth. LN11 8LN track past Abbey ruins. Rangers Office All Saints' Church Legbourne Serenity and Scandal Join the Park Rangers on a walk to discover Sunday 10.00-16.00 Saturday 11.00-12.00 Hartsholme Country Park a wildlife haven in Medieval glass fragments in two windows and A talk by Sally Smithson on the history of the City of Lincoln. Learn about the history of important group of Preedy windows. Come and and the thirteen century Saint the park and it's place in today's thriving city. see photographs of Legbourne in days past. Leonard's church.

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48g Ellis Windmill, WC 48j St. Mary le Wigford WC Mill Road, Lincoln. Church, St Mary's Street, LN1 3LY Lincoln. LN5 7EQ Lincolnshire Heritage Open Days 2016 The mill is situated behind the Museum of Lincoln Heritage Music Festival – Lincolnshire Life on Burton Road. Chevrette Visitor feedback – Your opinion counts! Flour Milling at Ellis Mill with Nowt Sunday 11.00-11.45 and 13.45-14.30 We hope you have enjoyed Heritage Open Days 2016. To ensure that next year’s Takeen Owt The members of Chevrette perform in medieval events will be even better, please complete this questionnaire and leave it at the Saturday and Sunday 12.00-17.00 garb playing music from earlier times as befits Step back in time! Visit Ellis Mill and see how their dress, but sometimes meandering into the collection point at the event, if you are on a tour please hand it to your guide. You flour used to be made. Built in 1798, this mill baroque, and finding it hard to resist the odd can write or e-mail your comments direct to Heritage Lincolnshire or fill in our is the sole survivor of a row of nine windmills traditional folk tune. online form at http://ow.ly/MTm9q. You can also scan the QR code and fill in the along the Lincoln Edge. feedback form online from your mobile device. The data collected is guaranteed 48k St. Mary le Wigford WC confidential. It will only be used for the purpose of this consultation and will not 48h St. Katherine's WC Church, St Mary's Street, Priory Heritage Lincoln. LN5 7EQ Centre, Colegrave be passed on to a third party. Street, Lincoln. LN5 8DW Lincoln Heritage Music Festival – Sixteen Eight-Five The Shutter Imps Photographic Please tick all boxes that apply. Saturday 10.00-10.45 Exhibition Join Sixteen Eighty-Five for a delightful ramble 1. Have you visited Heritage Open Days events before? Yes □ No □ Thursday and Friday 10.30-15.30, through the musical past. A recital of beautiful Saturday 10.30-16-30 and Sunday 12.30- 16-30 early music will be performed on a selection of period instruments such as flutes, weird and 2. How far you have you travelled to be here today? A photographic exhibition by a group of Lincoln wonderful recorders, harpsichords and viols. and Lincolnshire based photographers who up to 5 miles □ 5 - 15 miles □ 15 - 30 miles □ Over 30 miles □ communicate via social media. Our members range from enthusiasts to semi-professional 48l St. Mary le Wigford WC 3. What is your age group? Church, St Mary's Street, photographers. We meet regularly, organise Lincoln. LN5 7EQ 16 or under □ 17 - 24 □ 25 - 34 □ 35 - 44 □ outings, exhibitions and workshops for Lincoln Heritage Music Festival - 45 - 54 □ 55 - 64 □ 65+ □ members Society of Recorder Players Saturday 11.00-11.45 4. How many people are in your party? 48i St. Mary le Wigford WC Church, St Mary's Street, The Lincolnshire branch of the Society of No. of adults ...... No. of Children ...... Lincoln. LN5 7EQ Recorder Players is a lively group of recorder Lincoln's Oldest Church enthusiasts who meet monthly to plan a wide 5. How many events did you (or will you) visit during Heritage Open Days Thursday and Friday 10.00-16.00, variety of music drawn from many centuries and 2016? styles. Saturday 10.00-17.45 and Sunday 11.00- 1 □ 2 - 5 □ 6 - 10 □ more than 10 □ 17.00 Lincoln's oldest church with a Saxon Tower built 48m St. Mary le Wigford WC by Ertig 1000 years ago. Church, St Mary's Street, Lincoln. LN5 7EQ 6. How did you find out about Heritage Open Days? The church contains (Please tick all that apply) many items from Lincoln Heritage Music Festival - Lincoln's lost churches Bygonz HOD booklet □ Magazine □ Television □ Website□ and is at the heart Saturday 12.00-13.00 and 14.30-15.30 National paper □ Poster at event □ Local paper □ Radio □ of the city centre. Bygonz present music from bygone ages on Word of mouth □ Social media (Facebook, Twitter etc) □ Heritage Music Festival instruments of the time, especially pipe and tabor, hurdy gurdy, English bagpipes and performances throughout Other (please state)……………………………………………… the weekend. medieval percussion. The programme focuses on English music from the past 800 years.

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48r St Peter at Gowts 48n WC WC Church, High Street 7. If you found out about Heritage Open Days through our booklet, where did St. Mary Lincoln. LN5 7SR le Wigford (next to St Mary’s Guildhall) you collect your copy? Church, St Mary's Street, ………………………………………………………………………… Lincoln. LN5 7EQ Saxon Church which saw a Victorian Bishop end up in Court ………………………………………………………………………… Lincoln Heritage Music Festival - Musick Rediscover'd Saturday 10.00-16.00 ………………………………………………………………………… Saturday 13.15-14.00 and 15.45- A chance to see this Saxon church with 16.30 and Sunday 12.30-13.15 Victorian Chancel where Bishop Edward 8. How much did you enjoy your visit? Musick Rediscover'd is a small group dedicated committed the 'Ritualistic Practices' that led to Not very much □ Not at all □ A fair amount □ A great deal □ to recreating older music. They specialise in his appearance before the Consistory Court. Eighteenth Century English music and seek

to establish a Georgian atmosphere. In period 48s Usher Gallery, WC dress they use authentic instruments such 1 Danes Terrace, 9. If you have any comments you would like to pass to Heritage Open Days Lincoln. LN2 1LP organisers please do so below. as the cello, harpsichord, recorder and also provide vocals. Tour of the Usher Gallery Focusing on Natural Lincolnshire Friday and Saturday 11.00 48o St. Mary le Wigford WC Church, St Mary's Street, Booking Essential Contact: 01522 550990 Lincoln. LN5 7EQ Usher Gallery Lincoln Heritage Music Festival - Join our Collections Access Officer on a tour Lincoln Waites around the gallery to explore some of our Saturday 17.00-17.45 finest examples of work relating to Natural City of Lincoln Waites are a civic band of the Lincolnshire and hear about artists' inspirations type maintained by all the ancient boroughs of and techniques. England from the 14th to 19th centuries.

48t Lincolnshire WC 48p St. Mary le Wigford Archives, St Rumbold WC Street, Lincoln. LN2 5AB Church, St Mary's Street, Be the first to find out what we’re up to by providing your name and e-mail below: Lincoln. LN5 7EQ Lincoln's Excavators "Working at Your name:...... Lincoln Heritage Music Festival – Tritor Home" Sunday 16.15-17.00 Saturday 13.30-15.00 Your e-mail: ...... Tritor perform pre-renaissance music and An introduction to Lincoln's excavators and songs. The repertoire includes material from the illustrated story of their role in the tale of Once you have completed the form, please leave at the venue or post it to: Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century Italy destruction and construction that changed the face of Lincoln in the 20th century. Heritage Lincolnshire, Freepost RTEE-EAXT-TJAH, The Old School, Cameron and Iberia. They play instruments including the bagpipes, harmonium, hurdy gurdy and Street, Heckington, Lincolnshire NG34 9RW assorted percussion. 48u International Bomber Command Centre, Spire Memorial You can also e-mail your comments to [email protected] 48q St. Mary le Wigford WC and Walls, Canwick Hill, Lincoln. LN4 2RF Church, St Mary's Street, Lincoln. LN5 7EQ Spire Memorial and Walls Guided Tour Lincoln Heritage Music Festival - Friday 14.30 Stephen Frisby Booking Essential Contact: 01778 421420 Thank you very much for taking Sunday 15.00-15.30 Sue Taylor [email protected] A sole performance of the Pipe and Tabor. It The IBCC Memorial Spire commemorates the th e tim e to fill in this questionnaire! may possibly be the first ever one man band brave young men who lost their lives in Bomber and was often used for playing dance music in Command in WWII. At 31.09 metres it is the medieval period. The two instruments are Britain's tallest War Memorial. It played by one musician. is currently not open to the general public.

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48v WC Museum of Lincolnshire Life, Old Barracks, Burton Road, Lincoln. LN1 3LY Dig for Victory Saturday 10.00-16.00 This Home-Front WWII family quiz leads you through our domestic military and agricultural displays to search for clues about how people survived by growing and making their own food in WWII. Prizes for completed sheets! © Copyright Lincoln Castle Connections

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WC © Copyright Richard Croft Lincoln. LN1 3AA Free guided tours of 48y Westgate Water Tower, Lincoln Castle. Westgate, Lincoln. LN1 3BQ Saturday and Sunday tours at 11.00, Watergate Water Tower Unlocked 12.00, 13.30, 14.30 and 15.30 Saturday 10.00-16.00 Guide: Jon Pawson Experienced castle guides will lead visitors A rare chance to see inside a century old water around the site, revealing stories of its past. tower still serving Uphill Lincoln, and learn The wall walk and Victorian prison will remain about the history of Lincoln's water supply and part of the paid attraction. Ticket information is this imposing building in the historic part of available on the website www.lincolncastle.com Uphill Lincoln.

48x Unit 6, WC 48z Hall Water WC 33, Monks Treatment Works, Way Industrial Collingham Road, Estate, Monks Road, Lincoln. LN2 5LN Newton on Trent. LN1 2JL Are You a Yellowbelly? Discover Anglian Water’s State of the Sunday 10.00-16-00 Art Water Treatment Works Booking Essential Contact: 07711 112171 Mrs Thursday 16.00, 17.00, 18.00 and 19.00 Cromack Booking Essential Contact: areet@ Come and look into your family's past. Travel anglianwater.co.uk Amy Reet back in time. Find out what your family did for a A rare chance to see behind the scenes at living and where they lived. Are your ancestors Anglian Water's latest state of the art Water on the 1911 Census? Come and find them! Treatment Works. Supplying 20 million litres of drinking water a day to Lincoln and the surrounding area.

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49 LITTLE COATES Model railway displays and illustrated talk on the history of local railways on Sunday at 13.30. 49a WC St Michael’s No trains running this weekend. Church, 55 58 OWSTON FERRY Great Coates Road, Little Coates. DN34 4ND 52 Great Coates Road is the A1136 connecting 55a New Bolingbroke 58a Owston WC the A180’s Great Coates Interchange with the 52a Town Hall, WC Town Hall, Ferry Pumping western suburb of Grimsby – there is a lay-by Market Place, Main Road, Station, and bus stop outside the church Market New Bolingbroke. PE22 7JU WC South Street, Owston Ferry. DN9 1RP Deeping. PE6 8EA A Tudor Tile Tells a Tale New Bolingbroke in Look for the tall chimney The Church Street in Market Deeping Thursday 14.30-17.30 (Talk at 15.00, Pictures From 1890 - 2010 (By New Toy Steam at Owston Ferry Pumping 16.00 & 17.00) and Saturday 09.30-12.30 100 Years ago Bolingbroke History Group) Station (Talk at 10.00, 11.00 & 12.00) Saturday 14.00 15.00 Saturday and Sunday 10.00-1800 Saturday 10.00-16.30 Contact: 01778 344553 Speaker: Revd. Canon Mullins Booking Essential Exhibition of photographs covering topics on Booking Essential Contact: 07502 038843 Keith Simpson One small item found in the ground when the pubs, schools, trades, recreation, farming John Dawson A who's who of the fine Georgian/Victorian major part of the church was being built in 1913 houses, churches, chapels, transport, windmills Enjoy a day at Owston Ferry Pumping Station Church Street in a walk along its length. Meet links the Battle of Flodden to a Holderness also records of baptism, marriages, burials and in the company of the Lincolnshire Toy Steam Brewers, Doctors, Blacksmiths, Publicans, drowning tragedy via opposition to Henry VIII paper cuttings. Censuses on New Bolingbroke Forum who will be holding their annual fair. The Soldiers and Distillers of medicinal herbs. and surrounding area. pumping Station will also be open for visitors. 50 LOUTH 53 MESSINGHAM 56 50a WC Louth 53a Holy Trinity WC Museum, Church, 47, 56a Meet at 4, Broadbank, Louth. LN11 0EQ Temperance Avenue, Wesley Centre, Messingham. DN17 3SF WC More than 100 years of Natural History Road, North Thoresby. in Louth Museum Revealing and Sharing our Heritage - DN36 5RF Holy Trinity Church Saturday 10.00-16.00 North Thoresby: Wood, Stone, Brick, In 1884 five teenage boys keen on butterflies, Saturday10.00-16.00 and Sunday 12.00- 16.00 Soil and People beetles, birds and plants formed Louth Saturday 14.00-16.00 Guide: Bob and Liz Allen © Copyright Chris Naturalist's Club, and over the years this A Grade II* Listed C13 church greatly restored in the early C19 including the installation of an Kershaw became Louth Museum. Come for a short tour 58b Owston Ferry extensive collection of medieval stained glass Take a guided walk through Thoresby's origins, WC (approximately 20 mins). Visitors invited to past, present and possible future; see how Pumping Station, browse afterwards. by Revd. H V Bayley. A story revealed! South Street, site and soil have influenced development; Owston Ferry. DN9 1RP encounter key historic villagers and buildings Look for the tall chimney 51 LUDBOROUGH 54 NETTLEHAM Owston Ferry Pumping Station 54a Meet on The Green, Nettleham Village, 57 OSBOURNBY 51a Lincolnshire WC Sunday 11.00-16.00 Wolds Railway, Nettleham. LN2 2NR Ludborough 57a St Peter & St Paul Church, Booking Essential Contact: 07502 038843 Explore the Bishop's Palace High Street, Osbournby. NG34 0DN Station, Station Road, Ludborough. Sunday 14.30-15.30 John Dawson DN36 5SH Osbournby Exhibition of Past and Booking Essential Contact: 01522 595114 Owston Ferry Pumping Station houses a range Situated just off the A16 between Louth and Pearl Wheatley Present of heritage pumping machinery including a Grimsby. Follow the brown signs and take the Saturday 11.00-16.00 and Sunday 13.00- Marshall LT class tandem compound steam turning to . The Romans and Anglo-Saxons settled in Nettleham and the village has flourished ever 16.00 engine which can be demonstrated. Other Behind the scenes at Lincolnshire Displays to include - agricultural items; examples include a Ruston Hornsby 8HRC Wolds Railway since. The Bishops of Lincoln had a Palace where the King stayed. Why is it not Nettleham archaeological artefacts; spinning and weaving horizontal diesel engine. Saturday and Sunday 11.00-15.00 (tour raw materials to finished articles; photography. lasts approximately 1 hr) Guide: Phillip Regis? Eldridge, Lecturer: Alf Ludlam Static display of rolling stock; museum, shop and buffet open. Guided tours of engine shed and carriage workshops, Saturday at 12.00 and 14.00 and Sunday at 12.00.

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63 66 67f Sleaford Museum, WC 63a Ashby 81 Southgate, Sleaford. WC NG34 7RQ Decoy Golf Club, 67c Meet at Sleaford Market Place, Sleaford Museum Trust Exhibition - Burringham Road, Scunthorpe, North Sleaford. NG34 7SH "Agriculture and Ale" Lincolnshire. DN17 2AB Commencing and finishing Sleaford Market Place. Sunday 12.00-16.00 Unique Duck Decoy Pond Displays linked to 67c and 67d. Early farm and Friday 10.00-16.00 Sleaford History Group Presents III: estate maps and agricultural equipment. An Booking Essential Contact: 01724 359243 or - A Landscape rearranged - Sleaford authentic Inn sign; brewing and drinking items; 07981 189005 Mr J F Thompson All Rights Reserved by © panoramio Steve. D Enclosure of the Late 18th C – Walk sales records. Closed and demolished pubs in The Duck Decoy pond is no longer used for Sunday 10.00-12.00 pictures. Alternatives to alcohol. catching ducks but come along and discover 66a St Botolph's Church, Guide: Dr Simon Pawley Skidbrooke. LN11 7DQ more about Ashby Duck Decoy pond. Why was Holdingham the centre of the Tales of Skidbrooke 67g Navigation House, open field system, not Sleaford? Explore Navigation Wharf, Carre Street, 64 SILK WILLOUGHBY Saturday 14.00-16.00 the changes brought about by the move to Sleaford. NG34 7TW Local farmer and CCT volunteer Martin modern agriculture - new fields, hedges, drains, 64a St Denis' Parish Navigation House - Telling the Heritage WC Chapman has lived and worked the land in the farm buildings. Control of process by big of the Sleaford Navigation Church, Church Lincolnshire Coastal Marsh area all his life. An Lane, landowners. Sunday 11.00-16.30 event sharing tales of St Botolph's church, local Silk Willoughby, Sleaford. NG34 8PD Thought to be the only one of its kind, history, and folk traditions. Natural Landscape through the 67d Meet at Sleaford Museum, Navigation House is the refurbished company Southgate, Sleaford. NG34 7RQ Camera's Lens office of the Sleaford Navigation Company. 67 SLEAFORD Commencing and finishing Sleaford Museum, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday Sleaford. NG34 7RQ Enjoy a detailed History, fun interactive and an 10.00-16.30 67a Sleaford Eastgate intriguing family trail. Sleaford History Group Presents This 14th century church, a hidden gem within Almshouses Chapel. NG34 7SH the county, will present a photographic display Opposite St.Denys Church IV: - "Nature Licensed" a history of of the Lincolnshire landscape. Christopher Sleaford History Group Presents I: - Sleaford's Pubs – Walk Whall and Glen Carter stained glass windows, "Stags in Bays": Sleaford Eastgate Sunday 16.00-17.30 Norman font, Medieval poppy heads and Almshouses Chapel - Courtesy of Guide: Mike Turland Sleaford now has but remnants of its drinking Jacobean pulpit. Sleaford Hospital Trustees past. Many hostelries have had names from Saturday 10.00-1200 nature. This tour reveals 27 over the last 65 SKEGNESS Find the Family emblem of the Carres on the two centuries - livestock; birds, wildlife; trees; east wing (1790's refronted 1830). Explore 65a The WC mythical. And 35 other names. Village the chapel (1844). At 11.00 Barbara Marriage Church explains the history of the Almhouses; originally 67e 5, Navigation Yard, Farm Museum, Church Road South, founded in 1636 (Sir Robert Carre). Skegness. PE25 2HF Carre Street, Sleaford. NG34 7TW 67h WC Steam Power and Textiles Cogglesford 67b St Denys' Church, WC Old Sleaford Heritage Group – Saturday and Sunday 11.00-15.30 Market Place, Sleaford. Watermill, Exhibition East Road, Sleaford. NG34 7EQ Steam traction demonstration with "Bob" NG34 7SH Saturday 10.00-16.00 Follow the brown information signs off East the rare Hornsby T1300 traction engine also Sleaford History Group Presents Discover Old Sleaford over two millennia Road which lead to the car park. stunning exhibition of textiles and art courtesy II: - Nature in St Denys's Sleaford - from Iron Age town to today's Old Place. Cogglesford Watermill - Harnessing of NOLITEX WWI exhibition and talks. a Tour. (Courtesy of the Vicar and The 2015 dig, including previously unknown Nature's Power for Hundreds of years! Churchwardens of St Denys) post-conquest manor house and dovecote. Sunday 11.00-16.30 Saturday 14.00-15.30 Exceptionally rare Roman pottery and pin. Cogglesford Watermill will be rumbling into Guide: Douglas Hoare Many other finds. action grinding its own stoneground flour. The Nature appears inside, outside, obvious, Greenfield Bakery will be joining in selling unappreciated, in many forms - biology via traditional baked bread in wood fired ovens. botany, geology, metallurgy - and of many ages. Imagine sea creatures, strange plants, dragons, lions. These and many others, lurk everywhere! Lincolnshire nature abounds!

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72b Willow Tree Fen 72e Strawberry WC Tree Fen Nature Glass and The Reserve, Counter Fenland Textile 68 SNARFORD 71 SOUTHREY WC Drain Drove, Studio, Unique Cottage Studios, Fulney West Pinchbeck, Lane South, Spalding. PE12 6FA 68a St Lawrence's Church, 71a St John WC Snarford. LN8 3SL the Divine, Spalding. PE11 3JH Heritage Craft Demonstrations, Stained Tudor Treasures in Rural Lincolnshire Ferry Road, Willow Tree Bat Walk Glass Making and Natural Wool Dyeing Saturday and Sunday 11.00-16.00 Southrey, Lincoln. LN3 5TA Saturday 19.30-21.30 Thursday 10.00-16.00 Visitors to this rural church will have the Take the B1188 back on to the B1190 from Join Lincolnshire Bat Group on a guided bat Strawberry Glass stained glass Studio and Bardney. Prepare to turn right at Rase opportunity to see the nationally important walk and talk around Willow Tree Fen Nature Fenland textile Studio will be demonstrating the Warehousing into Southrey onto a "T" road. Reserve ending with hot chocolate around a memorials to the St Paul and Wray families. Go through the wood into the village where the heritage crafts of stained glass work and natural Join a knowledgeable guide to find out the Church is the only building on the left hand side. camp fire. wool dyeing. Housed in a converted farm fascinating story behind the monuments. Atwixt Wood and Water building with free parking and café. Thursday and Friday 10.00-16.00, 69 SOUTH ELKINGTON Saturday 10.00-17.00 and Sunday 10.00- 16.00 69a All WC Saints' Southrey, at the waters edge of a no-through Church, lane, is sandwiched between Tennyson’s ever- Church Lane, South Elkington, Nr. Louth. flowing river and the Ancient Limewoods. See LN11 0SA what changes this natural Lincolnshire hamlet Victorian Tree Planters in South has witnessed over the last few centuries.

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Sunday 14.00-17.00 © Copyright B Gormley 71b Meet at Riverside WC Booking Essential Contact: 01507 603998 Ms Car Park, Ferry Road, 72f Ayscoughfee Day (for the Walk) Southrey. LN3 5TA 72c Willow Tree Fen Hall Museum, Nature Reserve, Counter A Wolds farming village with woods planted by Southrey Riverside Stroll - with added Churchgate, WC Drain Drove, Spalding. PE11 2RA Victorian landowners. Guided walk at 14.30. Wildflowers West Pinchbeck, WC Varied lichen in the churchyard. Interesting Thursday 18.30-20.00 Spalding. PE11 3JH Ayscoughfee Hall Museum - A Hidden church interior including decorated chancel Join us for a leisurely evening riverside stroll Lincolnshire Fens Medieval Gem ceiling and angels. looking at local flora and fauna. At the end of Saturday 10.30-16.00 Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday the walk you'll have a chance to sow wildflower Family fun day on the Fens. Pond dipping, 10.30-16.00 Come and visit one of the finest late medieval 70 SOUTH FERRIBY seeds to benefit waterside wildlife. For further crafts, and den building. detail see website www.canalrivertrust.org.uk/ houses in Lincolnshire. Built in the 1450's 70a Meet at Ferriby Sluice Ayscoughfee Hall stands in five acres of Car Park South Ferriby. enjoy-the-waterways/events 72d Willow Tree Fen DN18 6JQ Nature Reserve, Counter beautiful gardens. All this and it's free to enter. A1077 Sluice Road opposite the Hope & Anchor 72 SPALDING Drain Drove, Public House & Restaurant. West Pinchbeck, WC 73 STAINFIELD

72a Flower WC Spalding. PE11 3JH Controlling the Waters of 'Ankhams (R. Bulb 73a St Andrews Church, Ancholme) oozy flood' (Stukeley 1724). Museum, Lincolnshire Fens – Salt Making The Park, Kingthorpe Saturday and Sunday 10.00-12.00 Birchgrove Garden Centre, Surfleet Road, Saturday 11.00-12.00 Road, Stainfield. LN8 5Jl Guide: Richard Clarke Pinchbeck, Spalding. PE11 3XY. Booking Essential Contact: 01529 461499 Interpreting Natural Lincolnshire Follow the Brown Tourist signs Short walk to discover the history of the HTL Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday canalisation of the River Ancholme, of Ferriby Where have all the Flowers Gone Between 1500 BC and 1650 AD saltmaking 10.30-16.00 Sluice, which controls the flow of drainage Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday took place extensively on Lincolnshire's Visit this unique Queen Anne church set waters from Lincoln to the Humber and a short 10.30-16.00 Marshes. One such Iron Age saltern excavated in historic parkland within the Lincolnshire drive to Horkstow suspension bridge. Visit the Spalding Flower Bulb Museum. on this very site is the subject of a detailed and Limewoods. Ancient and modern art and Discover why the tulip fields that made Spalding fascinating illustrated talk by archaeologist Tom textile work featuring local artists are displayed famous, and were such spectacles drawing Lane. celebrating natural Lincolnshire. Local 1000's of visitors each year, are no longer here history guide book in South Lincolnshire. available.

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74 STALLINGBOROUGH 78b St Matthews WC 79c Dogdyke WC 76b St Andrew’s Church, Church, Bridge Steam Drainage 74a Barn, WC . LN11 8SF Pigeon Cote Road, Sutton Station, St Andrew’s Church Stewton WC Bridge. PE12 9SD . LN4 4JG Farm, LN11 8SF is in the tiny Stallingborough. DN41 8AJ - (opposite the Land From the Sea Entrance via Bridge Farm, off the A153, east of village of Stewton and is Tattershall Bridge. LN4 4JG Green Man). accessible off the B1200; or from Louth - go Friday and Saturday 10.00-16.00 and Sunday Nature’s Craft down Stewton Lane to the end of the road 12.00-16.00 Fen to Farming: Draining the Land Saturday and Sunday 10.00-16.00 (signposted church) Man has been claiming land from the Wash by Steam, Dogdyke Steam Drainage Green woodworking and traditional woodland Heritage in Action for centuries. This exhibition celebrates Engine crafts for all ages and abilities including hands Saturday and Sunday 10.00-16.00 the navvies and prisoners of war who have Saturday 13.30-16.30 on demonstrations of sustainable building Discover the hidden gem of Stewton nestling laboured to create our unique landscape in Our 1856 beam engine will be in steam, techniques used in Lincolnshire throughout the on the doorstep of Louth. Visit the 1000 year south east Lincolnshire powering the scoop-wheel land drainage pump ages old church set within dynamic developing - the last operating by steam in the UK. Also natural environment. Photographs of wildlife, 79 TATTERSHALL see the 1940 Ruston oil engine and Gwynnes 75 STAMFORD pictures of old Lincolnshire farming and village centrifugal pump in action. brickyard. 75a Browne's Hospital, 79d Pow Cottage, Broad Street, Stamford. WC PE9 3LS 77 27, High Street, Tattershall. LN4 4NP Discover a Treasure in "England's 77a St Oswald's Pow Cottage - Built of Mud & Stud Finest Stone Town" Church, Church Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday Saturday 11.00-16.00 Lane, Strubby. LN13 0LR 12.00-17.00 Booking Essential Contact: 01780 763153 Ms 'History, Archives and Harvest' Booking Essential Contact: 01526 343143 Sharp 01780 766567 Ms Ruff (for guided tour Jane Pow Saturday 14.00-17.00 only) Renovated traditional C16 mud and stud

Booking Essential Contact: 01507 451217 © Copyright Mark Holland Built in 1475 around a lovely cloister garden cottage with attractive gardens. Home made Mrs Webb 01507 450388 Ms Farrow (for guided Browne's Hospital, still home to 13 residents, cream teas sold in aid of charities. Tours 13.00 tour only) has medieval buildings on show with famous & 15.00 each day for cottage. Garden tours Beautiful stained glass window depicting 79a Tattershall WC stained-glass and original furnishings. Guided Castle (National can be arranged. Relax and absorb the history. tour at 14.00 pre-booking essential. the rural and farming heritage of the area. Trust), Sleaford RAF Strubby photographs and displays. Road, Tattershall. LN4 4LR 80 76 STEWTON Home produce stalls and farming displays. On the A153 between Sleaford and Horncastle.

Pre-booking required for guided tours. Tattershall Castle (National Trust) 80a Thorpe WC 76a Meet at St Andrew's Church, Refreshments. A warm welcome to everyone. Camp Visitor Stewton. LN11 8SF Sunday 11.00-1600 Centre, Parking is at the car park at Discover one of the first and finest medieval Tattershall Thorpe. LN4 4PL St Andrew’s Church Stewton LN11 8SF where 78 SUTTON BRIDGE brick castles in England. Explore six floors from B1192 to Woodhall Spa Road you will be escorted about half a mile to the 78a Meet near Swing Bridge, basement to battlements, experience stunning woodland ‘Landships’ Sutton Bridge. PE12 9UA views from the roof. Family friendly guided Discover the Secrets of Stewton and its Saturday and Sunday 11.00-17.00 First and Last Enclosures of the Former tours last approximately 1¼ hours. In conjunction with the First World War Historic Woodland Salt Marshes of the Nene Estuary Centenary Partnership and The Imperial War Saturday and Sunday 10.00-11.00 and Friday and Sunday 13.30-15.00 79b Timberland Diesel WC Museum. An exhibition commemorating 14.00-15.00 Contact: 01529 461499 Pumping Station, Guide: Revd. Robert Mansfield Booking Essential Witham Bank, Tattershall. the centenary of the first tank action 15th HTL Retracing the history of the village of Stewton LN4 4JP September 1916. Models - photographs - The tour led by Beryl Jackson begins by car and its origins, contrasting it to present day and O/S reference TF 188583 documents. Radio controlled model tanks. along the first sea bank (1640) then to East discovering a modern woodland planted 2010 Timberland Diesel Pumping Station Trade Stands - book stall. Daily showing of Lighthouse to Peter Scott's walk on the last to enhance the environment and provide for Saturday 13.00-16.30 ‘The Somme 1916’ film. enclosure (1976). wildlife and renewable energy. Working demonstration of Ruston Hornsby 9XHRC engine and Ruston Bucyrus 10RB Dragline. Plus other static displays and demonstrations.

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Bishop Grosseteste 83 THORPE ON THE HILL University offer a single 83a Meet at WC the Café, honours History degree, Whisby Natural as well as degree-level World Centre, Moor Lane, Thorpe on the Hill, Lincoln. LN6 9BW study in Archaeology. Discovering Lincolnshire's Lost River: A Guided Walk along the Ice Age River Studying Archaeology at BGU Trent Thursday 10.30-12.30 (walk lasts will take you on an amazing approximately 2 hours) journey into the physical The walk explores the extinct course of the reality of the distant past, Trent between Newark and Lincoln, which existed for some 300,000 years and left behind

while you learn and develop © Copyright B Gormley a relict valley and vast river deposits that still as an independent student. 81a Temple Bruer Tower, define the landscape today. Temple Farm, Temple Road, History is essential in Welbourn. LN5 0DG 84 THURLBY-BY-BOURNE If travelling via the A15 do not take the turning understanding what the signposted ‘Temple Bruer’, instead take the 84a Church Hall, WC past means for us in the turning signposted ‘Welbourn’. 53°04'14.0"N Church Street, 0°29'47.5"W Thurlby-by-Bourne. twenty-first century. Discover PE10 0EH Temple Bruer – Secrets and Symbols At Thurlby A15 crossroads follow signs for Archaeology the ages in a dynamic and Friday 12.00-16.00 church and Thurlby Fen. Turn into Church exciting way; through words, Explore this rare example of a standing Knights Street at the Horseshoe pub. The Church Hall is ahead on the right. images, buildings and Templar building, packed with mysterious signs, symbols and secrets. Discover the highs and Thurlby: A Fen-edge Parish. An artefacts. lows of its story, from wealthy preceptory to Illustrated Talk Templar imprisonment and its restoration in Friday 19.30-21.00 recent times. Booking Essential Contact: 01529 461499 HTL Other subject areas within the 82 THORPE CULVERT An illustrated talk from Joyce Stevenson School of Humanities include: explores this fen-edge village and its natural 82a Quinceys Pumping Station, Culvert Road, Thorpe Culvert. environment through the seasons. Discover Drama, English, Theology & PE24 4NJ what lies beneath the fenland sunrises, vast Ethics, Heritage Education, Quinceys Pumping Station skies and upland sunsets of our parish Sunday 10.00-16.00 Business, and Sociology The station houses two Ruston and Hornsby diesel engines which drive Gwynnes pumps. BA Honours, Masters degrees, and The engines, which have been restored and combination degrees with courses in maintained by a group of dedicated volunteers, other schools at BGU are available can only be seen running on open days.

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85 TORKSEY 88 88a St Martin's Church, Church Lane, City of Lincoln Waites - City of Lincoln Waithe. DN36 5PR Heritage Waites are a civic band of the type maintained Wonderful Waithe by all the ancient boroughs of England from the Sunday 13.00-16.00 14th to 19th centuries. The Romanesque exterior of St Martin's hides Music Chevrette The members of Chevrette perform a surprising interior celebrating high Victorian in medieval garb, playing music from an earlier Gothic. Guided tours within this fascinating time as befits their dress. They sometimes church will see the inner sanctum lit by Microfestival meander into the baroque and find it hard to resist the candlelight for this special event. New for 2016, Lincolnshire

© Copyright Richard Croft odd traditional folk tune. 89 Heritage Open Festival Grantham Danserye 85a Meet in the Car Park of Members of Grantham Hume Arms, Main Street, 89a Welton le Wold Quarry, includes a Heritage Music Danserye will perform Torksey. LN1 2EE Welton le Wold, Louth. LN11 0QT Microfestival! historic dances from the Torksey Castle Guided Tour th O/S reference TF279882. 16 century in period Friday, Saturday and Sunday 10.30-11.15 Accessible from A631 & signposted on the day. Be transported back in time by musicians costume. www.danserye. and 14.30-15.15 Guide: Ray Watling "Where Elephants Once Roamed!" and performers at St. Mary le Wigford co.uk. A chance to visit this 16th century Manor House Church in Lincoln and St. Peter and St. Musick Rediscover’d Musick Rediscover’d situated on private land which was sacked by Friday 10.30-13.00 Guide: Helen Gamble Paul’s Church in Algarkirk. is a small group dedicated to recreating the royalists in the Civil War. older music. They specialise in 18th century An opportunity to be led round this site by the Saturday 10th September 2016 at experts and learn more about this important English music, seeking to establish a Georgian 86 TUMBY MOORSIDE St Mary le Wigford Church: geological site of special scientific interest. Not atmosphere wearing period dress. They use 10:00 Sixteen-Eighty-Five 86a The Barn, nornally open to the public. The three mile walk authentic instruments including voice, cello, WC 11:00 Society of Recorder Players Tumby is by kind permission of the landowners. harpsichord and recorder. www.spanglefish.com/ Moorside, Lincolnshire Branch musickrediscoverd/index.asp Coningsby. PE22 7ST 12:00 Bygonz 90 WILKSBY Sixteen-Eighty-Five Join Sixteen-Eighty- Adjacent to the Home Guard Visitor Centre. 13:15 Musick Rediscover’d Five for a delightful ramble through the musical Earth as a Natural Building Material 90a All Saints 14:30 Bygonz past in a recital of beautiful early music. Their Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday Church, 15:45 Musick Rediscover’d music is performed on a selection of period Wilksby. 17:00 City of Lincoln Waites 10.00-16.00 PE22 7PA instruments; flutes, weird and wonderful Learn from the past whilst bringing our buildings recorders, harpsichord and viols. www. Leave B1183 Horncastle Sunday 11th September 2016 at heritage into the future. Experience new and old to Boston road at . sixteen85.co.uk. ways of building with natural materials. Explore, Drive west from village notice board towards St Mary le Wigford Church: Society of Recorder Players learn how and get 'hands on' at an ancient Stud , church in ¼ mile on the right. 11:00 Chevrette Lincolnshire Branch The Lincolnshire and Mud Barn. Sir Joseph Banks Walked This Way 12:30 Musick Rediscover’d branch of the Society of Recorder Players is a Friday 14.00-17.00, Saturday and Sunday 13:45 Chevrette lively group of friendly recorder enthusiasts who 87 09.30-17.00 15:00 Stephen Frisby play a wide variety of music drawn from many One of Lincolnshire's smallest churches, mostly 16:15 Tritor centuries and styles. www.srp.org.uk/lincs/ 87a WC St Andrews rebuilt at the expense of Joseph Banks, the Sunday 11th September 2016 at St. Peter and Stephen Frisby - A solo performance of the Church, eminent naturalist. Exhibition on local crops St. Paul’s Church, Algarkirk: Pipe and Tabor. It may possibly be the first ever Church Lane, and wildlife. Waymarked heritage and nature Grantham Danserye will perform during the one man band and was often used for playing Utterby, Louth. LN11 0TH walk, (lasts approximately 1 hour) maps and church’s Heritage Open Days event 12:00-16:00 dance music in the medieval period. guides will be issued. Refreshments available. Tritor perform pre-renaissance music and Reviving the Ancient Church Yard Bygonz Bygonz present music from bygone songs. The repertoire includes material from Sunday 11.00-15.00 ages on instruments of the time, especially pipe thirteenth and fourteenth Century Italy and The church yard working party will be present and tabor, hurdy gurdy, English bagpipes and Iberia. Instruments include the bagpipes, to explain the work they have done to revive the medieval percussion. Their programme focuses harmonium, hurdy gurdy and assorted church yard and point out interesting details. on English music from the past 800 years. percussion. bygonz.blogspot.co.uk/

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94 WOODHALL SPA 91 WILLOUGHBY 94a Ostler's Plantation, Spires & Steeples Kirby Lane, Woodhall 91a St Helena's Church, Spa. LN10 6YY Church Lane, Willoughby. Trees and Planes NOW IN IT’S LN13 9NA Thursday 13:00-15:00 Guide: Wally Grice Challenge 2016 Wool and Willoughby Meet by the information board in the car park. Saturday and Sunday 14.00-17.00 Discover the RAF past of Ostler's Plantation An exhibition dedicated to the Reverend R.G. th th during the war, it's commercial forestry use and YEAR Bouyer, Rector of Willoughby in 1771, who about the wildlife who live here, on a guided Sunday 16 October was instrumental in progressing the wool trade 9 walk with the local forester. in Lincolnshire. The exhibition will include spinning demonstrations Run or Walk 92 WINTERTON 26 miles from Lincoln to Sleaford 92a All Saints' WC Church, Churchside, 13 miles from Metheringham to Sleaford Winterton, Scunthorpe. DN15 9TU O/S reference SE 928186 © Copyright Les Binns The Spires & Steeples Challenge is a successful charity run or All Saints' Church: The Story it Tells of 94b Tattershall Road, walk following the public footpaths and bridleways along the Winterton Woodhall Spa. LN4 4JT Sunday 12.00-16.00 The entrance is off the Spires and Steeples Arts & Heritage Trail. This multi-terrain B1192 Tattershall Road, south of Woodhall Spa. Newly opened Heritage Centre at All Saints' course showcases the stunning scenery, artworks and church telling the story of Winterton. Static and digital 1st exit on the right after Lodge Road. O/S reference TF205607 displays about church, town and people. architecture across the beautiful Lincolnshire countryside. Smartphone and Quiz church tours. Town and Woodhall Spa Airfield Open Day parish walk leaflets. Interest for all ages. Sunday 11.00-14.00 Explore the past, present and future of the 93 former airfield through the eyes of a Victorian ENTRIES ARE NOW OPEN! naturalist, member of the Lancaster ground 93a Withcall WC crew and a nature conservationist. Enjoy a trail Wolds Farm through this new nature reserve. Museum, Withcall, Nr Louth. LN11 9RL Withcall 4 miles west of Louth. 95 WOOLSTHORPE BY BELVOIR Covered Wagon Tour into the Heart of 95a Woolsthorpe the Wolds Carpenters Shop, (behind Rutland Saturday 12.30-17.30 Arms (Dirty Duck) WC Booking Essential Contact: 01507 343607 Mr Public House), Smith Woolsthorpe by Belvoir. NG32 1NY Tractor and covered waggon tour into the hills Waterway Wildlife on Grantham Canal and heart of the Wolds. History of the area Friday 10.30-16.00 back 500.000 years. St Martin's church with Booking Essential Contact: 01476 978896 Contact us for more information paintings and history display. Tearoom with live / 07971 173069 Ms Gibson (Narrowboat trip t 01522 694353 music. Interest to everyone. only) e [email protected] For over 200 years canals have supported a range of flora and fauna. Explore by Online entry runnersworld.co.uk/spiresandsteeples2016 narrowboat, £3 Adults / £2 children (approx. Spires and Steeples Challenge 30 mins). Guided walks (approx.1 hour) and displays will show lock restoration at work. @Spires_Steeples #Challenge16 1Life.co.uk/spiresandsteepleschallenge ay 8 to Sunday 11 September e Open Days 2016 - Thursd 44 www.heritagelincolnshire.org Heritag 45 celebrate lincolnshire’s rich h eritage

NOTES 96 WOOLSTHORPE BY COLSTERWORTH keep in& touch JOIN IN ON SOCIAL MEDIA Share your Heritage Open Days 2016 experiences, photos, videos and comments with us on social 96a Woolsthorpe media using #LincsHODs. We’re WC Manor also looking forward to seeing (National Trust), Water Lane, Woolsthorpe by your #LincsHODselfie! Colsterworth. NG33 5PD 7 miles south of Grantham, follow brown signs from the A1 and B676. Follow Heritage Woolsthorpe Manor – Home of Lincolnshire on Twitter: Scientific Genius @HeritageLincs Sunday 11.00-1700 (last entry 16.30) Isaac Newton was born here - come and Like us on Facebook: explore his life and scientific discoveries Heritage Lincolnshire in the Manor House, and Science Centre. Today there'll also be craft stalls with lovely Follow us on Instagram: local things for sale. HeritageLincs 97 Visit our website at www. 97a Church of St John the heritagelincolnshire.org Baptist, Main Road, Yarburgh. LN11 0PN Sign up for the latest The Genesis Carving Saturday 14.00-16.00 news via St John's Tower is famed for its superbly www.heritagelincolnshire. detailed carvings of Adam and Eve, and org/updates other biblical themes. Join local historian Stuart Sizer as he explains the history and significance of this magical carving.

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