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North Cycle Route

Safety first Be a responsible Cyclist On all routes – Please be courteous! Always cycle with respect for In 2016, 18,477 others, whether cyclists, pedestrians, people in wheelchairs, horse cyclists were injured riders or drivers, and acknowledge those who give way to you. in reported road On shared-use paths: accidents, including • Give way to pedestrians: leave them plenty of room to • Keep to your side of any dividing line and keep to the left when 3,499 who were killed you meet other cyclists or seriously injured • Be prepared to slow down or stop if necessary • Don’t expect to cycle at high speeds – Source ROSPA. • Be careful at junctions, bends and entrances • Remember many people are hard of hearing and visually impaired - don’t assume they can see or hear you Before setting out on • Carry a bell and use it - don’t surprise people your bike it’s important • Give way where there are wheelchair users and horse riders to make sure you’ll be When cycling on roads: safe when cycling. • Always follow the Highway Code • Be seen - most accidents to cyclists happen at junctions • Fit lights and use them in poor visibility • Always wear a helmet and conspicuous clothing Thank you • Keep your bike roadworthy • Do not cycle on pavements except where designated - for cycling! pavements are for pedestrians • Use your bell - not all pedestrians can see you

The Gov.uk website In the countryside: provides further advice • Always follow the Countryside Code • Respect other land management activities, farming or forestry on what to do to stay and take litter home with you safe on the roads • Keep erosion to a minimum if off-road • Try to cycle or use public transport to travel to the start and including following finish of your ride the Highway Code. • Match your speed to the surface and your skills

Beginning in the historic of Sleaford, venture to and along winding country lanes to Heckington. Here you will pass its famous eight sailed windmill and continue on the picturesque route through , and back into Sleaford. For feedback on this route or to make enquiries please email [email protected] Whilst great care has been taken on compiling this information into this leaflet, North Route is long distance (34.3km) and mostly flat. Kesteven District Council cannot be held responsible for any errors, omissions or The route avoids main roads and is suited to intermediate cyclists. alterations contained within it. The inclusion of an establishment within this leaflet does not imply any official recommendations by District Council. 1 Starting at Sleaford Station, cross the 1 tracks and turn right. Follow the road left Sleaford Ewerby Heckington onto Road and continue all the Sleaford is a market At Ewerby are the Priory ruins, and the Heckington Grade way to Silk Willoughby. town and civil in Grade I listed Anglican church dedicated to St Andrew. I listed Anglican , . It The church is an example of early 14th century Decorated parish church 2 Coming out of Silk Willoughby, turn left is on the edge of the fertile Fenlands, about tyle with a 172 feet (52 m) spire. is dedicated to St Andrew. It 2 onto Gorse Lane and continue on until 11 miles north-east of , 16 miles In the north chancel is the recumbent effigy of Sir Alexander Aunsell, is of cruciform plan and in a west of Boston, and 17 miles south of Lincoln. the founder of the church. St Andrew’s was restored in 1895. In late complete Decorated style. The you meet Mareham Lane. Here take a left The first settlement formed in the Iron Age 2009 the ecclesiastical of Kirkby Laythorpe and Ewerby original 14th-century church was and then almost immediately, a right onto where a prehistoric track crossed the River became part of the benefice of New Sleaford, to be held in plurality. acquired by Abbey in Whitecross Lane. Slea. It was a tribal centre and home to a The village public house is the Finch Hatton Arms on Main Street. 1345, and subsequently a mint for the Corieltauvi in the 1st centuries new chancel was built by vicar 3 When you meet Road, turn BC and AD. Evidence of Roman and Richard de Potesgrave, chaplain 3 right and shortly after, turn right again Anglo-Saxon settlement has been to Edward III. uncovered, and by the late Saxon period the The nearly 1,000-year-old onto Road. town was an economic and jurisdictional village is best known for centre with a court and market. its windmill of the same name, 4 Follow Scredington Road all the way past Sleaford was primarily an agricultural town the only 8-sailed example of 4 Northbeck until you reach a left turn onto until the 20th century, supporting a cattle its type still standing in the UK Station Road. From here, follow the road market, with seed companies, such as and Europe. The tower windmill south of Northbeck and continue on to Hubbard and Phillips, and Sharpes built as a five-sailed mill in 1830 International Seeds, being established in the and turned into an eight-sailed Helpringham. late 19th century. The arrival of the railway mill after serious storm damage made the town favourable for malting. in 1890–92 was formerly (and Cycle through Helpringham and out the 55 sometimes still today) named North of the village via Hale Road (B1394) Pocklington’s Mill after its last owner John Pocklington. 6 Follow this road all the way to Heckington 6 and when you get to the crossroad with the OAK , go straight over and up Eastgate. (COOP on the left available) 7 At the end of Eastgate, turn right on 7 Vicarage Road and then right onto Kyme Road at the . 8 Follow Kyme Road until just after you 8 cross the A17. Here, turn left, follow this road through Howell and on to . 9 Turn left onto Thorpe Road and continue 9 until you meet Main Street. Turn left and cycle through Ewerby. 10 Main Street becomes Kirkby Road and 10 then Ewerby Road. Follow this road all Scredington Silk Willoughby the way to Kirkby la Thorpe. There are no less than four scheduled is named after a Herefordshire family, the Pedwardines, ancient monuments within the parish 11 As you come through Kirkby la Thorpe who acquired the hall and manor through marriage about 1330. boundaries. The most prominent is the Ewerby Road ends. Turn left here onto The village Grade II listed Anglican parish church is dedicated to St Packhorse Bridge, which, although often referred to as the Boston Road, follow it up over the A17 Andrew. It was rebuilt by Sir Roger Pedwardine in the early 14th century on “Roman Bridge”, is less than certain in its dating, with sources and through into Sleaford. a cruciform plan with central tower. The tower collapsed in 1802, and the church was rebuilt. It was quoting “around 1250” or during the “fifteenth century” – again rebuilt in Decorated style in 1870, retaining its original transept from the pre-1802 church. however it is not generally thought to be Roman. During WW2, At the end of Boston Road, turn left at the A notable murder occurred in the parish in 1728, when Captain Thomas Mitchell, a Justice of the aircraft ED4 0-LN from RAF Wyton crashed during a bombing 12 Peace, killed a bailiff named Pennystone Warden of Ewerby. The captain was committed to Lincoln practice training flight at High Gate Farm, Scredington on 18th Handley Monument and continue on to Castle by two of his fellow magistrates and subsequently sentenced to death at Lincoln Assizes June 1943 with the loss of the lives of those on board. the station.