Heritage Open Days 7th- 10th September 2017

Free events for all ages Freedom, Justice, Equality

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Discover Lincolnshire’s rich heritage and explore for free between Thursday 7th and Sunday 10th September.

Welcome to your guide to Heritage Open Days 2017 organised by Heritage Lincolnshire. Each year the festival celebrates both the county’s best loved treasures and hidden gems. We do this by providing access to special places not normally open to the public or offering free access to attractions that usually charge a fee. There are events and activities for all ages and interests, from children’s trails, bus rides and musical performances, to expert-led guided tours and temporary exhibitions. Heritage Open Days is ’s biggest voluntary cultural event, and here in Lincolnshire last How you can year over 600 volunteers welcomed more than 20,000 visitors. Since we started the festival back support us in 1994, Heritage Lincolnshire has worked with volunteers and staff at historic sites to create an exciting programme of events that changes every year. We’re really proud that the festival here in Lincolnshire is now one of the biggest and best attended outside of . This year our festival theme is ‘Freedom, Justice & Equality’ to mark the 800th anniversary of the Charter of the Forrest, a copy of which is held alongside Magna Carta at Lincoln Castle. This lesser known charter restored the historic rights and freedoms of common people to gather fuel, food and graze their animals in royal forests across the kingdom. So look out for events celebrating hard won freedoms, historic crimes and cruel punishments that are marked with the scales of justice symbol. Membership is a way of showing that you We’re also pleased to welcome churches across the historic care about your local heritage. Parts of Holland who have launched the Holland Places of Worship Festival with lots of events as part of this year’s Key to symbols By joining Heritage Lincolnshire you will be directly contributing programme. Freedom, Justice to the conservation and enhancement of the county’s rich and On behalf of everyone involved with Lincolnshire Heritage Open and Equality wonderful historic buildings, landscapes and archaeology which Days we wish you an exciting and enjoyable long weekend! You can share your stories and photos with us online where we are may, without your help, disappear forever. Special activities @HeritageLincs and by using #LincsHODs. for children Becoming a supporter member enables you to support our educational, Enquiries Visit our website heritagelincolnshire.org for full volunteering and leisure activities, all of which encourage people details of all events, including any last minute additions or Refreshments to explore the heritage of the area and to become actively alterations. If you have any questions please call Heritage Properties/events involved in its conservation. Lincolnshire on 01529 461499. Our offices will be closed on the which offer their own Saturday and Sunday of the festival. parking facilities

Booking Please note that some events have limited places and WC Toilets require booking in advance. Not all events and properties take place over all four days, so check dates and times before you Holland Places of travel. H Worship Festival Places for some events are limited and we advise you to book as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. How to book, Generally suitable for where necessary, is listed under each event. For events where wheelchair users Heritage Lincolnshire co-ordinates bookings these can be made Partially or Monday-Friday from 8:45-5:15 until Friday 1st September. This conditionally suitable is to enable us to pass on details of bookings to event organisers for wheelchair users before the festival begins. Earlier or later deadlines may apply where event organisers take bookings directly. We ask that you Dog Friendly do not attend a booked event if you have not pre-booked.

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1 ALFORD 3d St Peter's Church, 3g Tyrwhitt Hall, Beck Hill, Pasture Road, Barton-Upon-Humber. DN18 5EY 1a Alford Manor WC 3 BARTON UPON HUMBER Barton Upon Humber. Tyrwhitt Hall - Medieval Timber-Framed House, West DN18 5EX Street, 3a Baysgarth House Great Hall Follow signs for St. Peter's Church Alford. LN13 9HT Museum & Park, Sunday 14.00-14.45 Road, Visit St Peter's Church Turning back the years-steam threshing Barton Upon Humber. DN18 6AH Booking Essential Contact: 01652 635172 Sunday 10.00-15.00 and vintage tractor run Victorian Life at Baysgarth House A rare opportunity to see the medieval timber- Saturday 10.00-16.30. Sunday 11.00- By kind permission of English Heritage. This framed Great Hall. The building is associated Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday famous Anglo Saxon tower and medieval with the Barton sculptor Philip Pape. Booking 16.00 12.00-16.00 Saturday vintage tractor rally and static engine nave and chancel are an archaeological and for the guided tour is essential. A chance for visitors to find out about life architectural treasure. Guides on hand. The display. Sunday steam threshing day. Rural life at Baysgarth House Museum in the time of museum, WW1 exhibition, garden and tearoom. “Buried Lives” exhibition tracks the church and 4 BELTON the Wright Taylor family. Coincides with an its people through 1000 years. exhibition celebrating the times of the house's 4a 2 ALGARKIRK Belton WC last private owners. 3e The WC House 2a Church of Ropewalk, (National St Peter & St 3b Wilderspin National Maltkiln Lane, Trust), Nr. . NG32 2LS Paul, Church School & Joseph Barton Upon Humber. DN18 5JT Lane, Algarkirk. Located 3 miles north of Grantham on the A607. WC Wright Hall, Queen Follow brown signs from A15 and A1077 No 1 Grantham to Lincoln bus stops outside the PE20 2HH H Street, Barton upon WC Events at the Ropewalk property in Belton village. Visit St Peter and Humber. DN18 5QP Thursday 10.00-17.00, 19.30 Film archive Challenging Perspectives St Paul Algarkirk Brown sign from A1077 Shorts Night including The Ropewalk. Saturday 09.30-17.30 Saturday 09.00-17.30. Sunday 11.00- Freedom, Justice and Equality - Train Friday 10.00-17.00. Saturday 10.00- 16.00 up a Child 17.00, Guided tours of The Ropewalk at Mr Samuel Wilderspin, infant educator, or one 10.30 & 14.30. Sunday 10.00-16.00 of his esteemed Agents, will lecture in the Booking Essential Contact: 01625 660380 Primitive Methodist Chapel. Mr Wilderspin's Guided tour only pioneering teaching methods will be outlined Set within Grade II Listed former rope works, and will be demonstrated in the adjacent this acclaimed regional arts centre features National School. exhibition galleries, craft gallery and ropewalk museum, paying tribute to the Halls Barton 3c Baysgarth House Ropery and its workers. Coffee shop and Museum & Park, WC children's self-guided tour. Caistor Road, Barton Upon Humber. 3f The Ropewalk, Maltkiln Lane, DN18 6HA Barton Upon Humber. DN18 5JT Just off the A1077. Well signposted. Follow brown signs from A15 A stroll in the Park and A1077 Saturday 14.00-15.00 Past Forward - Introduction to the New Booking Essential Contact: 01652 635172 Hidden History Barton Smartphone app This Mediaeval “mini cathedral of the Guided walk of Baysgarth Park, former Saturday and Sunday 11.30 fens” is renowned for its beautiful parkland and gardens of Baysgarth House. The architecture, exquisite stained Booking Essential Contact: 01652 660380 estate belonged to the Nelthorpe family (1620- The Ropewalk glass: well worth a visit in their own 1792) and the house is now a museum. This The innovative Hidden History Barton right. Open 08.00 - 18.00 Saturday is where the walk commences. Book to avoid smartphone app is an opportunity to bring This year Belton is shining a spotlight on its for quiet reflection. Sunday guided disappointment. the fascinating history of Barton to life! Join collections. Explore the design tricks used to tours available on the half hour. this introduction to downloading the app and present the gardens, parkland and mansion Registers available for perusal. navigating a circular walk to uncover Barton's throughout history and discover the hidden Traditional fun and games heritage. depths of this special place. for the children, music and merriment.

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5 BOSTON 5c Fydell House, South Street, WC Boston. PE21 6HU Fydell House, a Fine Georgian Mansion Friday and Saturday 10.00-16.00 Fydell House will be open - come and see this historic 18th century town mansion. Saturday at 14.00, talk on "The architecture of Sessions House, a Victorian justice court in Boston".

5d Boston Baptist Church, Nestling south of Lincoln lies North , • Aviation Heritage 98, High Street, Boston. PE21 8TA WC H the Heart of Lincolnshire: a place brimming • Heritage Sites Boston Baptist Church with history, heritage and great places to visit, • Countryside Walks Friday and Saturday 10.00-1600. Sunday whatever your age. • Arts and Crafts 10.30-16.00 Come and explore Boston Baptist Church, founded in 1651, with its rich history of reform church worship and a number of unusual For more information call: 01529 308207 5a St Botolph’s architectural features on the building erected email: [email protected] tweet: @discover_nk WC Parish Church in 1837. Sunday 1030 act of worship all are (Boston Stump), welcome. Market Place, Boston. PE21 6NW H www.heartoflincs.com 5e Meet at Ingram Memorial Discover Boston Stump Statue, Market Place, Boston. Thursday, Friday and Saturday 10.00- PE21 6NP 15.30 Georgian Boston - Tyranny or Freedom Booking Essential Contact: Tour only 01205 Saturday 10.30-12.00 William Cully email - william.culley@ 310929 This walk, led by Neil Wright, will include sites parishofboston.co.uk of men involved in the reform agitation of SOCIETY FOR St Botolph's Church, known locally as Boston the 1830s, as well as going into the 1841-3 Stump and famous for its iconic tower is one Sessions House. Arranged by the Society for LINCOLNSHIRE HISTORY of the largest parish churches in the country. Lincolnshire History and Archaeology. Take a free tour (does not included the tower) & ARCHAEOLOGY at 11.00 Thursday, Friday & Saturday to learn 6 BOURNE about the building's fascinating history.

6a Baldocks Mill, 21, WC If you are interested in: 5b Boston Guildhall, South Street, Bourne. WC PE10 9LY • Archaeology South Street, Boston. PE21 6HT Fashion and Racing in Days Gone By • Local History, Oral History Visit Boston Guildhall Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday • Industrial Archaeology Thursday, Friday and Saturday 12.00-16.00 • Church and Vernacular Architecture 10.30-15.30 Housed in an old watermill, the museum Last admission 15.00 all days contains three floors of exhibitions. Visit the • All aspects of Lincolnshire’s heritage Cell, Courtroom, Crime & stunning Charles Worth gallery or experience Join us and experience the benefits. Punishment. The Pilgrim's Story the life of racing driver Raymond Mays, as well are just some of the exhibitions and as an insight into old local industries. Membership details are available from our website. collections that will be shared at Boston Guildhall over the Society for Lincolnshire History & Archaeology Heritage Open Days event. Jews’ Court Steep Hill Lincoln LN2 1LS Tel/Fax 01522 521337 E: [email protected] W: www.slha.org.uk

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9 11 CAISTOR 13 13a Crowland Abbey, 6b Bourne Town Hall, WC East Street, North Road, Bourne. Crowland. PE6 0EN PE0 9EA Where Did We All WC Explore the Courtroom at Bourne Town H Come From? Hall Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday Saturday and Sunday 10.00-16.00 11.00-16.00 Bourne Town Hall was built in 1821 as a A large map will show where Crowlanders and Courthouse and open market. Come and their ancestors came from, to live here now. explore the entire building at your own pace Enjoy a guided tour of the Abbey. Visitors may and discover the plans for its future. also follow the town trail.

7 BRACKENBOROUGH 14 CROWLE 7a Brackenborough Hall, WC 14a Crowle Peatlands Louth. LN11 0NS Railway, Dole Road, 2 miles north of Louth, Crowle Moors, Crowle. directions available from website DN17 4BL www.BrackenboroughHall.com Visit Crowle Peatlands Railway Brackenborough Hall deserted Saturday and Sunday 10.00-16.00 medieval village and farm walk Come and see the three locomotives that Sunday 10.30 & 14.30 Brigg Heritage Centre, were used to transport peat on the moors. Booking Essential Contact: 01507 603193 The Angel, Market Place, 2.0 © Copyright John Firth CC BY-SA Hear about our plans to record and present Paul & Flora Bennett Brigg. DN20 8LD the history of peat working on the moors from Guided walk (approximately 2 hrs) around 11a Pelham’s Pillar, Fonaby Top, Above the Library. The Angel, Market Place, Caistor. LN7 6RP medieval times. Brackenborough Hall, gardens, conversion Brigg. O/S Ref: TA133091 of coach house to holiday accommodation, Was there really Freedom and Pelham's Pillar 14b Meet at Potts Lane car park, Crowle. deserted medieval village and farm. Equality? DN17 4DT Thursday 13.00-16.00 Thursday and Friday 10.00-14.00. The Drainage of the Isle of Axholme – 8 BRANT BROUGHTON Saturday 10.00-15.00 Erected to commemorate planting of The Isle of Axhomlme & Hatfield Chase 12,552,700 trees by Charles Anderson Pelham, 8a Quaker Meeting Freedom? Pingley Camp - you have read the Landscape Partnership WC Lord Yarborough between 1787 and 1828. House, 3, Meeting street name, now find out what life was really Pillar foundations laid 1840 by his son, finished Saturday 10.00-17.30 House Lane, Brant like for the Prisoners of War. Equality? You Broughton. LN5 0SH by his grandson in time for Prince Albert's visit Booking Essential Contact: 07739 921835 or have heard the Dickens' tale Oliver Twist, now in 1849. e-mail preferred [email protected] Brant Broughton Quakers - Working discover life in the Brigg Workhouse. A mini-bus day-trip to look at what remains of Towards Equality 12 the various drainage schemes in the Isle of Thursday, Friday and Saturday 10.00- 10 Axholme from Cornelius Vermuyden's original 16.00. Sunday 13.00-16.00 12a Cleethorpes WC 17th century works to those of Smeaton and 10a St Phillip's WC Town Hall, 17th century Quaker Meeting House and Church, South Rennie of the 19th century. Burial Ground set in peaceful Knoll Street, Ormsby Road, Cleethorpes. DN35 8LN gardens. Exhibition of Quaker Brinkhill. LN11 8QX Cleethorpes Town Hall Hosts Friends of 14c Meet at Crowle Market Place. work towards Equality from 1650 Nobbled Horses, Prisoners of War, DN17 4LA Cleethorpes Heritage Event to today. Delicious home-made Treasonable Lords, and so much more! Crowle Before Enclosure - Walk refreshments available in the Saturday 10.00-16.00 Saturday and Sunday 14.00-1700 Sunday 14.00-16.00 garden and beautifully restored History will be brought to life with characters Meet the Brinkhill History Group and find out Come and find out about Crowle before it was barn. from Cleethorpes’ past. Rolling film and how the locals foiled Cromwell. Discover the radically changed by the enclosures at the archives will be available and information grisly end of the Lord of the Manor. Read about beginning of the 19th Century. Find out where to take away. Come and get a flavour of inquests, crimes, prisoners of war and poverty. the gallows were and the names of the open yesteryear. Tea, cake and fun served. fields and commons.

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15 DENTON 15a St Andrew's Church, Church Street, Denton. 18 EPWORTH 19 22 FRIESTON SHORE NG32 1LG 19a Meet at Interpretation Panel 22a RSPB, Shore, A607 Grantham to Melton Mowbury 18a Epworth Mechanics' WC Institute Library, Manor Court in Fotherby. LN11 0UG Boston. PE22 0LY Visit St Andrew's Church, Welby Estate House, Market Place, Epworth. Meeting near corner of Louth road O/S Ref: TF398425. Saturday and Sunday 11.00-16.00 DN9 1EU and Church Lane, Fotherby LN11 0UG, From Boston, take the A52 road towards The 900 year old Church of St Andrew's in the Books and a Little Bit More! O/S Ref: TF 315 915 . Upon reaching Haltoft End after two miles, turn right and follow the brown tourism picturesque estate village of Denton has special Saturday 09.30-15.30 Free Men of the Wolds! signs from here directing you to RSPB Freiston memorials to the Blyth and Welby families. A Sunday 10.00-13.00 Booking Essential Contact: 07530 252594 Defending Freedom marble monument to Richard Welby of 1714 What the Charter of the Forest meant to our guided walk only Friday 10.00-16.00 by Thomas Green of Camberwell. Plaques Exhibition about the origins of the Library and ancestors and how it created the protected Jim Snee, from the Layers of History project, recording the Williams and Gregory families its early days. Short guided walk (lasts approx landscapes that we know today. From the will be conducting short tours of the 3 WWII and a Lewis organ dated 1888. Guided tours ½ hour) at 11.00 and 13.30 around Epworth arable fields and woodlands to the commons defences and explaining their role in protecting available. Craft stalls, cakes and refreshments and the Library (access via a flight of stairs). and villages – it’s all here on this 6 mile walk! the . available. Display of local history Books/newspapers. Book sale and tombola. 20 FRAMPTON 23 FULBECK 16 20aSt Mary's WC 18b Epworth Church, 23a Fulbeck Manor, 16a Meet ay WC WC WC Black Horse Inn, Old Rectory, Church End, Grantham. Main Road, 1, Rectory Frampton. NG32 3JN Donington on Bain. LN11 9TJ Street, Epworth. DN9 1HX From the Kirton roundabout on the A16 three Follow brown signs to Manor Craft Centre than behind the Green sign. Enclosure: Tragedy or Triumph? A John Wesley; an 18th Century miles south of Boston, follow the sigh to Frampton for a mile Walking Talk Champion of Freedom, Justice & 80 Fane Family Portraits and their Exhibition at St Mary's Church Stories. Thursday 11.00-13.00 Equality Booking Essential Contact: 01522 555786 Sunday 12.00-16.00 Saturday 10.30-16.00. Sunday 12.30- Friday and Saturday 10.30-12.00 16.00 David Rodger Booking Essential Contact: 01529 461499 Contact: 01522 555786 David Rodger St Mary's broach spire is one of the earliest in HTL “Hedges created privatisation and denied the country and inside there is much evidence 80 Fane portraits their interesting history in freedoms that the rural population had enjoyed of the changes wrought by our forebears. An politics the army and their family lives over 400 for a thousand years”. A guided walk around exhibition will celebrate Frampton School, years. Donington on Bain will explore this, prompting closed in 1968. discussion of the Enclosure Act. 24 GAINSBOROUGH 21 FRAMPTON WEST 24aThe Old WC Nick, 17 EAST St Michael's & All Angels WC Church, Ralphs Lane, 31, Spring 17a Manor Farm Cottage, WC Frampton West. PE20 1QZ Gardens, Gainsborough. DN21 2AY East Firsby, Nearly opposite Marshall's Yard . LN8 2DB Baa Baa Black H Crime and Punishment Gainsborough Meet the Saxons Sheep, Have Booking Essential Contact: 01427 872268 You Any Wool? Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday Friday and Sunday 13.00-16.30 (only required to guarantee a particular time) 11.00-15.00 Booking Essential Contact: Drop-in tours on the hour & half hour around Saturday and Sunday 10.00-16.00 Many Lincolnshire churches derived their Guided tours of fascinating Grade II listed 01673 878636 Mrs Jones the childhood home of John Wesley, Methodist. Victorian Police Station and Magistrates' Contact: 01673 878636 Mrs Jones wealth from the wool trade. The nursery rhyme Find out about this remarkable man, whose Court last used in the mid-70s. Visit the cells Saxonhouse is an archaeological Baa Baa Black Sheep refers to this. Come childhood was marred by debt, and how that and hear about the inmates, their crimes and accurate centre for exploring the along and see our woolly display and spinning inspired him to champion social justice, to fight punishments. life and culture of the early medieval for Freedom, Justice & Equality. demonstrations. period. Step back into the daily life of a 7th century Saxon homestead with Aelric and Elfrida.

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25 24b Gainsborough WC United Reformed 25a Gayton Engine Pumping Station, Church, Thacker Bank, Theddlethorpe Church Street, Gainsborough. DN21 2JR All Saints. LN12 1PE Mayflower Pilgrims at Gainsborough Visit Gayton Engine Pumping Station United Reformed Church Saturday and Sunday 14.00-16.00 Saturday 10.00-15.30 Visit Gainsborough United Reformed Church to discover our links with the Mayflower Pilgrims and listen to music on our magnificent pipe organ. Tea/coffee and cakes will be served.

24c Gainsborough WC Quaker Meeting House, 22, Market Street. DN21 2BE Visit Gainsborough Friends Meeting House

Saturday 10.00-16.00 The Meeting House is a touchingly simple building dating from 1704, with a few later additions. It remains simple but with a powerful feeling of history, of prayer and of silence. Come and have tea or coffee with us. La ye Visitors can view the Victorian building built to rs drain water from Gayton Fen and Marsh with its 1936 Petter engine pumping water, which was restored in 1993. Land drainage exhibits can of y be viewed in the museum area. H tor 26 GRANTHAM i s 26a ChristChurch, WC Finkin Street, Grantham. Discover Lincolnshire’s NG31 6QZ layers of history by learning how Visit Margaret Thatcher’s Childhood to ‘read’ the landscape and Church Friday 19.00-20.00. Saturday 10.00- revealing the secrets of the past. 14.00. Sunday 14.00-16.00 Walk around this Grade II Listed church opened in 1841 and attended by Margaret Roberts (Margaret Thatcher). Friday 19.00-20.00 John Manterfield, historian and author, will give a talk on Freedom, Justice and Equality in Grantham Email: [email protected] from the seventeenth century onwards. #LayersofHistory www.heritagelincolnshire.org/layers

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26f Old Burial Ground, Manthorpe Road, 26b The Old King’s WC School, Church Street, Grantham. NG31 8DB Grantham. NG31 6RR Entrance from Manthorpe Road, opposite petrol WPC Edith Smith - Pioneer station. 28 29 GUNBY Grantham's Hidden Graveyard Policewoman 28a Grimsby Town Hall, WC 29a Gunby WC Saturday 09.30-13.30 Sunday 13.30-16.00 Town Hall Square, Hall & This was Grantham's additional cemetery in the Grimsby. DN31 1HX Gardens, Hear about Edith Smith and her work in First Gunby, . PE23 5SS early 19th century. It is now an evocative space The Heritage of Grimsby Town Hall World War Grantham. Talk at 10.30 lasts Gunby Hall between Skegness and Spilsby on approximately 45 mins. See the Tudor Old and wildlife haven. Civic Society members Friday and Saturday 10.00-16.00 the A158 off Gunby School, endowed by Bishop Foxe and Sir Isaac will be on hand with information about people buried here. Gunby Estate, Hall & Gardens Heritage Newton's name carved in the window sill. Open Day 26g Grantham House Sunday 11.00-17.00 26c St Wulfram's Parish WC WC Church, Church Street, (National Trust), Grantham. NG31 6RR Castlegate, Grantham. The Glory of Grantham NG31 6SS Saturday 10.00-16.00 Law and Order in the Grounds of St Wulfram's is described as England's finest Grantham House parish church. Visit the tower and the Trigge Sunday 14.00-16.30 chained library. See the crypt, the former St Visit the delightful 4-acre gardens at Grantham Kathryn's chapel and the coffee shop. House, enjoy refreshments and be entertained by strolling players from Grantham's past with a Law & Order theme. 26d Old Court WC House, (Belvoir Letting), 27 60A, London Rd, Grantham. NG31 6HR Explore eight acre gardens, three floors of the Visit Grantham’s Old Courthouse 27a St Nicolas' WC © Copyright Wikimedia Church, Great CC BY-SA 3.0 house and 1500 acres of grounds. Finish your Saturday 10.30-12.00 Coates Road, visit with a cuppa and a treat in the tea-room. Discover the heritage of Grimsby Town Hall, The courthouse, which at one time doubled as Grimsby. DN37 9NS Picnics and dogs on leads welcome in the built in 1863. Explore the building to see the old a police station, was built in 1830. This is your Shipshape; graffiti and restoration gardens. police cells and Magistrates Court, and wander chance to see inside and go into a prison cell. Saturday 10.00-16.00 around the dark and twisting corridors of the 30 HARLAXTON See how the south aisle (a medieval lean-to) Time Trap Museum. 26e Wyndham WC was slipping away from the building and has 30a Harlaxton Manor, Park, Grantham. WC now been secured back on and see a newly- Harlaxton, Grantham. NG31 9BB 28b St. Mary WC noticed ship scratched into a pillar there as a on the Sea NG32 1AG World War One at Wyndham Park - prayer centuries ago. Catholic The main entrance is opposite the Gregory History and Heritage combine Church, Heneage Road, Grimsby. Public House on the A607 between Grantham Sunday 10.00-15.30 DN32 8LW and Melton Mowbray Discover the history and WW1 heritage of Grimsby's Hidden Gem of the East "Harlaxton: A Home Like no Other" Grantham's Wyndham Park. With Marsh Sunday Tours at 13.00, 14.00, 15.00 & talks (meet Memorial Arch) by Friday 13.00-16.00. Saturday 11.00-16.00 16.00 local historians, a family heritage This Grade II listed Catholic church dedicated Booking Essential Contact: 01476 403000 trail (start Memorial Shelter) and in 1883 is one of the most beautiful, but largely Main reception Visit Harlaxton Manor, built by Gregory Gregory a display on the park’s heritage, unknown, buildings in . in the 1830s, with Anthony Salvin (architect) there's something for everyone. Of Austere appearance outside, it most certainly responsible for the exterior. It's an exuberant See website for further information. gives the visitor the wow factor on entering its merging of styles, which must be seen to be doors. believed: an unforgettable experience.

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32b St Andrew's WC 31 HEALING Church, Church Street, . 31a Healing Manor WC Hotel, Stallingborough NG34 9RW Road, Healing. Visit St Andrew's Church, Heckington DN41 7QF Saturday 10.30-16.00. Sunday 14.00- Manor Rules Walk 16.00 Thursday 15.00-16.30. Sunday 11.00- Come and admire the outstanding medieval 12.30 and 14.00-15.30 architecture. Discover stories of murder, Booking Essential Contact: Healing Manor highwaymen, nagging wives and wayward 01472884544 or Emma Lingard 0778 886 dogs. Did the church show justice? Discover 5191 how today's church campaigns for climate Meet at Healing Manor Hotel and learn about justice and fairness for refugees. Guided tours the Lords of the Manor and how various Lords’ available. rule over Healing changed relationships, history and life in the village. There will be a gentle 33 walk around the estate. 33a Holbeach ROC Post, WC Washway Road, Holbeach. 31b St Peter & PE12 7PP St Paul Church, From the A17 eastbound, take the first left after Church Lane, the Holbeach roundabout into Penny Hill Road, Healing. DN41 7QF WC then take the second right on to Toll’s Lane, at Freedom in Healing the end of which turn right, the bunker is on the Sunday 11.00-16.00 left 100 yards ahead. TF3645926342 Exhibition about freedom, justice and equality Holbeach Hidden Cold War Bunker in Healing. Thursday 11.00-15.00 Tours at 11.00, 1145, 12.30, 13.15 & 14.00 and last 32 HECKINGTON approximately 45 mins Booking Essential Contact: 01529 461499 32a Heckington Windmill, 4 - 6 Hale Road, HTL Heckington. NG34 9JW Put on a hard hat and descend the ladder Visit Heckington WC into a recent but almost forgotten chapter in Lincolnshire's history. Discover how the Windmill volunteers who trained here used to monitor in Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday case of a nuclear attack. 12.00-16.00 See the world’s last working 8-sailed windmill. The £1.7million renovation project is now completed and all the buildings restored and open to the public. Visit the mill, tea room, brewery and the visitor centre.

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33b Holbeach Cemetery Chapels, Park Road, Lincolnshire Heritage Open Days 2017 Holbeach. 34c Police Visitor feedback – Your opinion counts! PE12 7EE Station, The Wong, Holbeach Cemetery lies off Park Road, Horncastle. LN9 6BE We hope you have enjoyed Heritage Open Days 2017. To Holbeach, and is a short distance from the WC traffic lights in the town centre Horncastle's Horrid ensure that next year’s events will be even better, please History! Poachers! Workhouse inmates! complete this questionnaire and leave it at the collection point at the event, if Unnatural Deaths! Sunday 10.00-16.00 you are on a tour please hand it to your guide. You can write or e-mail your Booking Essential Contact: 01507 525859 Saturday 10.00-16.00 Christine Chapman (Police cell tour only) comments direct to Heritage Lincolnshire or Come and explore the darker side of the Discover lurid lawlessness at town's famous fill in our online form at http://ow.ly/MTm9q. Event No/s or Name history of Holbeach in the evocative setting Horsefair and how harshly criminals were of the Victorian Cemetery Chapels. Discover You can also scan the QR code and fill in the treated. Guided tours (booking essential) feedback form online from your mobile device. the characters who lived in the workhouse, of Victorian Police cells, not usually open. those who poached, those who received prison Displays about criminals in Chattertons The data collected is guaranteed confidential. sentences and those who ended their lives Solicitors Offices, South Street. It will only be used for the purpose of this unnaturally. consultation and will not be passed on to a third 35 HOWELL 34 HORNCASTLE party. 35a Meet at St Oswald's 34a Sir Joseph WC Church, Howell. NG34 9PT Please tick all boxes that apply. Banks Centre, 9-13, Bridge Tour of Howell's Deserted Medieval Street, Horncastle. LN9 5HZ Village 1. Have you visited Heritage Open Days events before? Yes □ No □ Pros and Cons in Horncastle Sunday 14.30-16.30 Friday 14.00-15.00 Meet at Oswald's church for a guided tour and then a short stroll around the Deserted 2. How far you have you travelled to be here today? Booking Essential Contact: 01507 526065 □ □ □ □ Paul Scott Medieval Village of Howell. We will also look at up to 5 miles 5 - 15 miles 15 - 30 miles Over 30 miles Tour the 19th century brothels in Horncastle; the moated site of Old Howell Manor. meet the workers, the constables who tracked 3. What is your age group? them down and the courts where they were 36 16 or under □ 17 - 24 □ 25 - 34 □ 35 - 44 □ regularly before the magistrates. Horncastle 36a St Margaret's Church, 45 - 54 □ 55 - 64 □ 65+ □ Police records of the past. Church Lane, Huttoft. LN13 9RE 4. How many people are in your party? 34b Sir Joseph WC Freedom of Worship Banks Centre, No. of adults ...... No. of Children ...... 9-13, Bridge Street, Saturday and Sunday 10.00-16.00 Horncastle. LN9 5HZ A church full of history charting freedom to 5. How many events did you (or will you) visit during Heritage Open Days Origin of the Long Drop worship. 13th century font. A great chair saved from ransacking during the reformation, Caleb's 2017? Saturday 10.00-16.00 grave, a working Barrell Organ and a Bryan 1 □ 2 - 5 □ 6 - 10 □ more than 10 □ Visit an exhibition on the national window - so much to see. hangman, William Marwood of Horncastle. William sympathised 6. How did you find out about Heritage Open Days? with the criminals who were (Please tick all that apply) sentenced to death by hanging, until they expired. He invented HOD booklet □ Magazine □ Television □ Website□ the system of hanging where the National paper □ Poster at event □ Local paper □ Radio □ victim died instantly, saving Word of mouth □ Social media (Facebook, Twitter etc) □ unnecessary suffering. Other (please state)………………………………………………

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7. If you found out about Heritage Open Days through our booklet, where did you collect your copy? 37 KIRTON 38 ………………………………………………………………………… 37a The Old King's Head, High Street, 38a All Saints' WC Kirton. PE20 1EG Church, Church ………………………………………………………………………… Lane, Legbourne. ………………………………………………………………………… LN11 8LN Leave Louth on A159 towards . Past the village shop on your left, turn left into 8. How much did you enjoy your visit? Church lane. Not very much □ Not at all □ A fair amount □ A great deal □ Visit All Saints Church Sunday 10.00-16.00 All Saints Church built in 1380 and extensively 9. If you have any comments you would like to pass to Heritage Open Days rebuilt in 1865. Medieval glass fragments in organisers please do so below. two windows and important group of Preedy windows. A 15th century rood screen partially restored in the 19th century.

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39a St Peter at WC Gowts Church, High Street, Lincoln, (next to St Mary’s Guildhall). © Copyright David Taylor LN5 7SP Kirton is located just off the a16 near Boston. The Old Kings Head (PE20 1EG) is on the High Lincoln's Pioneering Caroline Martyn Street, no 28 opposite the Church. Sunday 14.30 Last Orders at the old Kings Head Introducing Lincoln's Caroline Martyn, who toured 1890's Britain demanding higher wages, Friday 10.00-15.00 Be the first to find out what we’re up to by providing your name and e-mail below: more political rights, and a better way of life for Booking Essential Contact: 01529 461499 the impoverished men, women and children Your name:...... A chance to see the Old Kings Head before whose labour underpinned the wealth of the Heritage Lincolnshire begins its restoration. British Empire. Your e-mail: ...... Discover the amazing history of this 15th century inn and hear about its exciting future. Once you have completed the form, please leave at the venue or post it to: 39b The Collection, WC Danes Terrace, Heritage Lincolnshire, Freepost RTEE-EAXT-TJAH, The Old School, Cameron 37b St Peter & WC Lincoln. LN2 1LP St Paul Church, Street, Heckington, Lincolnshire NG34 9RW Willington Road, Prisoners of Conscience in Lincoln Kirton. PE20 1EG H Prison 1918-1919 You can also e-mail your comments to [email protected] WWI Comes to Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday Kirton Village 10.00-16.00 Saturday 11.00-16.30. Sunday 12.30- This exhibition examines both the imprisonment 16.00 of conscientious objectors during the First There will be an exhibition in church about the World War and the history of a group of Sinn Thank you very much for taking village of Kirton and also our local personalities, Fein prisoners, including Eamon de Valera, who including Sgt Harold Jackson VC and Dame escaped from Lincoln prison in 1919. th e tim e to fill in this questionnaire! Sarah Swift. Talks last about an hour will be given each day at 13.00 by Carol Lidgett.

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39c Jews' Court, 2/3, Steep Hill, 39f St. Mary le WC 39i St Mary's WC 39l St Benedict's WC Lincoln. LN2 1LS Wigford Guildhall, Church, St Benedict's Crime and Punishment at Lincoln Church, 385, High Square, High Street, St Mary's Street, Lincoln. LN5 7EQ Street, Lincoln. LN5 7SF Lincoln. LN5 7AR Castle in 1202 George Orwell and the Beggars: Down King Henry II’s Town House Lincoln Heritage Music Festival Thursday and Friday 14.00-15.00 But Not Out Booking Essential Contact: 01522 521337 Saturday 10.00-16.00 Saturday 10.00-17.00. Sunday 11.00- 16.00 SLHA Mon - Wed 09.30-12.30 only Friday 19.00-21.00 More of the Heritage Music Festival in the In 1202 the King's Justices sat at Lincoln This talk by Prof. Richard Lance Keeble will intimate setting of St Benedict's. A lovely 13th Castle. This talk by Nigel Burn brings to life examine the reasons why journalist and novelist century church which barely survived the Civil the written record of their court in an age when George Orwell chose to live with beggars War siege. guilt or innocence was determined by trial by and examine his “Down and Out in Paris and order. Presented by the Society for Lincolnshire London” (1933) as a complex mix of reportage, History and Archaeology. memoir, sociological inquiry and fiction. 39m County WC Offices, Newland, Lincoln. LN1 IYL 39g Lincoln 39d Tennyson Research WC WC Behind the Façade Centre, Lincolnshire Cathedral, Archives, St Rumbold Minster Yard, Saturday and Sunday 11.00-12.00 Lincoln. LN2 1PX Street, Lincoln. LN2 5AB Booking Essential Contact: 01529 461499 Lincoln Cathedral: Experience and Heritage Trust of Lincolnshire Alfred Tennyson's New Home St Mary's Guildhall may be the only survivor Explore Enclosed behind the familiar civic frontage lies Friday and Saturday 10.00-14.00 of King Henry II’s town houses. Guided tours Saturday 09.00-16.00 a hidden house where inhabitants have added Visit Alfred Tennyson's Library in its new home. (approx 20 mins) of the Courtyard, not normally Children's paper crafts and calligraphy available to the story of the City of Lincoln. Explore the See his books, photographs, letters, desk, open to the public, and 'Fosse Way' Roman in the Library from 10.00-16.00. Floor, roof evolution of Newland House into the home of manuscripts and more. 'Best bits' tours (lasts Road under a glass floor. approx ½ hour) at 11.00, 12.00 and 13.00 both and Tower tours available from 10.00-15.00, Lincolnshire County Council. days. £4.00pp, (over 14yrs only, restrictions apply), 39j St Peter at WC limited places, book in person on the Saturday Gowts Church, 39n Meet outside The Museum from 09.15. High Street, of Lincolnshire Life, 39e Hartsholme Country Barton Road, Lincoln. LN1 3LY Park, Skellingthorpe Lincoln, (next to St Mary’s Guildhall). LN5 7SP The Battle of Lincoln Fair (1217) - A Road, Lincoln. LN6 0EY 39h Lincoln WC A Walk in the Park WC Christ's Saxon Church Which Saw a Victorian guided Walk. Hospital Friday 11.00-13.00 School, Bishop end up in Court Saturday and Sunday 11.00-12.00 and Booking Essential Contact: 01522 873735 Road, Lincoln. LN2 4PN Saturday 10.00-16.00 14.30-15.30 Park Rangers Office "Freedom to be Educated; Freedom to A chance to see this Saxon Church with 2017 marks the 800th anniversary of this famous battle. Walk in the steps of the Royalist Join the Park Rangers on a walk to discover Receive Health Care" Victorian Chancel where Bishop Edward King committed 'Ritualistic Practices' that led to his army that relieved a besieged Lincoln Castle Hartsholme Country Park, a wildlife haven in Saturday 10.00-16.00 the city of Lincoln. Learn about the history of appearance before the Consistory Court. and defeated a Franco-rebel army. Led by Hospital! Different meanings at different Nigel Burn, Society for Lincolnshire History and park and its place in today's thriving city. times but always based on 'HOSPITIUM', a Archaeology. 39k St. Mary le Wigford WC caring place. The County Hospital will display Church, St Mary's intriguing items from its museum, and the Street, Lincoln. LN5 7EQ 39o Ellis Windmill, Mill Road, school from its own past as a Military Hospital. Lincoln Heritage Music Festival at Lincoln. LN1 3JJ Lincoln's Oldest Church Changes in Flour Milling Over the Years Saturday 10.00-16.30. 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39p Bishop WC 39s Meet at the entrance of Tesco, Grosseteste Wragby Road car park Lincoln. University, LN2 4QQ Longdales Rd, Lincoln. LN1 3DY Prisoner of Conscience: Eamon de 43 MESSINGHAM 40b Louth Museum, WC Prisoners of Conscience: Eamon de Valera's escape from Lincoln Prison 4, Broadbank, 43a Holy WC Valera and Fenner Brockway in Lincoln Sunday 15.00-16.00 Louth. LN11 0EQ Trinity prison, 1918-19. Booking Essential Contact: Erik Grigg Protest, Integrity and the Law in Louth Church, Saturday 14.00-15.00 Saturday 10.00-16.00 47, Temperance Avenue, Messingham. e-mail, [email protected] DN17 3SF Booking Essential Contact: 01522 585635 Led by Erik Grigg, this walk will retrace the Find out about the 1536 Lincolnshire Rising, Ms Wedge steps of escaping Sinn Fein prisoners in 1919. House of Correction, gaol book, prison doors, Revealing and Sharing our Heritage Erik Grigg and Hazel Kent will discuss the The walk will finish at the Adam & Eve Public protesters against church rates. Agricultural Saturday 10.00-16.00. Sunday 12.00- interconnected experiences of a leading Irish House. workers trade union, workhouse, Stote- 16.00 Republican and a prominent Conscientious case, man-trap, gibbet of murderer John Keal A Grade II Listed 13th Century church greatly th Objector, both imprisoned for defying the British 39t Friends Meeting and Peter Blanchard. restored in the early 19 Century, including the Government. Expect dramatic tales of escape, House, 1, Park Street, installation of a highly regarded collection of Lincoln. LN1 1UR medieval stained glass by Revd H V Bayley. A defiance and subterfuge! Refreshments will 41 follow talk. Living Simply WC story revealed! 41a Lincolnshire Wolds Saturday 10.00-16.00 Railway, Ludborough 39q Lincolnshire Family “Living simply” exhibition in the oldest non- Station, Station Road, 44 NETTLEHAM History Society, Unit 6, conformist place of worship in Lincoln. Amazing Ludborough. DN36 5SH WC 33, Monks Way Industrial 44a The Old School, WC historic building dating from 1689. Town centre Tracking Lincolnshire's Mill Hill, Nettleham. Estate, Monks Road, WC Lincoln. LN2 5LN location. An oasis of peace calm and spirituality Railway History LN2 2PE Are You A Goody or Badie? in a busy city. Saturday and Sunday 11.00-15.00 Hurray, No More Tithes! Sunday 10.00-16.00 See behind the scenes when the trains aren't Friday 14.00-15.00 40 LOUTH In 1777 the whole landscape of Nettleham Booking Essential Contact: 07711 112171 running. Guided tours, static displays, illustrated changed dramatically and so did the lives of Margaret Cromack talk on Sunday at 13.30. Museum and shop Were your ancestors involved in altering the open. Additionally Saturday 18.30 for 19.00 the villagers. See and hear how and why future by the making of new laws? Which side "Britain on Film - Railways" at Village this happened and the consequences. An of the law were they on? We have access Hall entry £5 includes light buffet. illustrated talk by Pearl Wheatley. to records to help you find out. Come and investigate. 42 45 NEW BOLINGBROKE 45a New Bolingbroke 42a Odd Fellows Hall, WC 39r Meet outside Visitor Church Street, Market Town Hall, Main Road, Information Centre, Castle Deeping. PE6 8AN New Bolingbroke. Hill, Lincoln. LN1 3AA History of the Deepings PE22 7LD WC On the B1183 situated Lincoln's Medieval Jewish Heritage Saturday 14.00-17.00 in the centre of New Bolingbroke opposite 'The Trail; Myths and Legends A Deepings History Society exhibition featuring Crescent' Sunday 13.30-15.30 40a Meet at Westgate Fields, transcripts from the Oral History project. There Visit New Bolingbroke Town Hall Booking Essential Contact: 01522 on the corner of Westgate are recordings of various events that took place and Love Lane, Louth Saturday and Sunday 10.00-16.00 692738 Ms Moss in the early 1900s. Photographs and record Grade II Listed building from the 1820's with Find out what made Lincoln one of Discover the Places and Spaces below information about those in our population who a rich history as a market, school and church. the most important Jewish centres Louth's Skyline - a Louth Civic Trust fought in WWI. History group members will be Also a display of photographs from the 1900's in Medieval England. Visit some guided tour on hand to answer any questions. to date. of the remaining Jewish houses Friday and Saturday 14.00-16.00 and trace Jewish stories in the Booking Essential Contact: 07958 453636 Cathedral along the route. A guided tour on foot through the historic market town of Louth identifying places of interest and architectural features. Starting on Westgate and finishing at the canal.

hursday 7 to Sunday 10 September #Li eritage Open Days 2017 - T 26 ncsHODs @HeritageLincs www.heritagelincolnshire.org H 27 celebrate lincolnshire’s rich h eritage 53 REVESBY 51 PINCHBECK 53a Meet of the Almshouses, The Green, Revesby. PE22 7NA 46 51a Pinchbeck WC From Louth take B1200 to 46a Lade Bank, 49 OLD CLEE Engine Land . Tower can be seen after St Peter’s WC Drainage New Leake, Nr. Boston. 49a Holy Trinity and Church (parking here) at crossroads with Three PE22 8JF WC Museum, Pinchbeck. PE11 3UW Bridge Lane. Straight on B1200, past two fields. St Mary the Virgin, One mile NE of Spalding off A16 Lade Bank Pumping Station Church Lane, Saltfleetby prospect tower first entrance on Old Clee, Grimsby. DN32 8LA Visit Pinchbeck Engine Museum left over dyke. Parking on opposite side of the Saturday 10.00-16.00 road. Historic Old Clee Thursday and Friday 11.00-16.00 Historic land drainage pumping station first Layers of History at Ravesby Estate Saturday 10.00-16.00. Sunday 12.00- opened in 1868 opens its doors to the public Sunday 10.30-12.30 with engine start up at 13.00. Plant and other 16.00 Booking Essential Contact: 01529 461499 displays also on show. The historic parish of Old Clee, Grimsby, Grade I Listed Saxon/Norman church. Eight Grade II Layers of History Team Join Heritage Lincolnshire for a rare opportunity cottages (not open to the public). Guided tours 47 to walk around the privately owned site of of the church. Archaeological and photographic Ravesby's Cistercian Abbey. Using aerial 47a Lincolnshire Road history displays. Refreshments in church hall. Transport Museum, photos for navigation, discover the Abbey's Whisby Road, North Layers of History. Hykeham, Lincoln. LN6 3QT 50 OWSTON FERRY WC Visit Lincolnshire Road 50a Owston Ferry Pumping 54 SALTFLEETBY Transport Museum Station, South Street, Owston 54a Prospect Tower of Saturday and Sunday 10.00-16.00 Ferry. DN9 1RP WC Look for the chimney Saltfleetby House, Saturday - museum open to visitors. Sunday Main Road, Saltfleetby. - free bus service from Lincoln. Museum and Toy Steam at Owston Ferry Pumping Station "Saltfleetby Prospect Tower - Climbing the museum workshop open to visitors and up to History" refreshments will be available. See website for Saturday 10.00-16.30 Saturday 10.30-16.00 details www.lvvs.org.uk Booking Essential Contact: 07502 038843 Booking Essential Contact: 07580 650670 John Dawson Museum dedicated to the history of the Enjoy a day at Owston Ferry Pumping Station Jane Mackintosh-Smith 48 NORTH RAUCEBY reclamation and draining of the Fens in South in the company of the Lincolnshire Toy Steam Is this marsh landmark a prospect tower, 48a Cranwell Aviation Lincolnshire. The Pumping Station houses the Forum who will be holding their annual fair. The gazebo or a folly? Come and climb the tower Heritage Centre, Heath original 1833 Beam Engine and Scoop Wheel and hear the story of the builder, the architect Farm, North Rauceby, pumping Station will also be open to visitors. which will be operating. and the people who have enjoyed it over two . NG34 8QR WC centuries. 50b Owston Ferry Pumping Station, Pioneering Female 52 RAITHBY BY SPILSBY Aviators. South Street, Owston Ferry. DN9 1RP Look for the chimney 55 Saturday and Sunday 10.30-16.30 52a Raithby Methodist Chapel, Owston Ferry Pumping Station Raithby by Spilsby. PE23 4DS 55a St Margaret's Church, Discover the fascinating history of the first Chapel is in village centre in the WC Sunday 11.00-16.30 Old Main Road, Sibsey, Military Air Academy in the world. Special grounds of Raithby Hall on Raithby Rd, PE23 nr Boston. PE22 0RX exhibition “High Flying Women” tells the stories Booking Essential Contact: 07502 038843 4DS Grid Ref TF373670 off A16, 5 miles north of Boston, via Station of women who fought against adversity to John Dawson An Earthly Paradise; Wesley's Chapel, road to Old main Road. PE22 0RX Owston Ferry Pumping Station houses a range pursue their dreams and excelled in Raithby by Spilsby. Holland Places of Worship Festival aviation history. of heritage pumping machinery including a Marshall LT Class tandem compound steam Friday 11.00-16.00 Saturday 10.00-16.00. Sunday 11.30- John Wesley himself dedicated this meeting engine, which can be demonstrated. Other 16.00 Family worship 10.30 place in an "earthly paradise" for people who th examples include a Ruston Hornsby 8HRC Church built from 12 Century replacing one call themselves Methodists. It was provided horizontal diesel engine. recorded in the Doomsday Book. Come and above a stable by his close friend Robert Carr explore the architecture and beautiful windows Brackenbury in the grounds of Brackenbury's (guided by free brochure). Displays of local beautiful home. history and historical figures (including Annie Besant). A warm welcome awaits. Light refreshments available.

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56 SILK WILLOUGHBY Bishop Grosseteste 58b Cogglesford WC 56a St Denis' Parish Watermill, East Road, University offer a single Church, Church Lane, Sleaford. NG34 7EQ Silk Willoughby, Sleaford. Cogglesford Watermill – History in honours History degree, NG34 8PD WC Action! as well as degree-level Teaching and Preaching Saturday and Sunday 11.00-16.30 Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday Cogglesford Watermill will be rumbling into study in Archaeology. 10.00-16.30 action grinding its own stoneground flour. This 14th century church retains many medieval Intriguing Children's trail! Studying Archaeology at BGU features. It will display the history of the village rectory, school and manor house and 58c Meet at Sleaford will take you on an amazing Gainsborough Old Hall with its connection to Market Place, journey into the physical the Pilgrim Fathers. Sleaford. NG34 7SH reality of the distant past, Sleaford History Group Presents: 57 Baron Hussey, Robert Carre, and the while you learn and develop 57a St Nicholas Church, Lincolnshire Rising 1536 - a Walk with as an independent student. Fishtoft Road, Skirbeck. H Simon Pawley PE21 0DJ Sunday 14.00-15.30 History is essential in Visit Skirbeck St Nicholas Church The failure (twice?) of Sheriff Hussey to Saturday and Sunday 11.00-17.00 enforce Henry VIII's Reformation, resulted understanding what the Skirbeck settlement is listed in the Doomsday in his execution. See Hussey's Old Place past means for us in the Book of 1085 and St Nicholas Church, a headquarters. Understand the role of "old" traditional Anglo-Catholic parish, is the oldest Robert Carre in Hussey's demise; further twenty-first century. Discover church in Boston, dating from about 1180. Part advancing his family's interests. Archaeology the ages in a dynamic and of the “Holland Places of Worship” Festival. exciting way; through words, 59 SOUTHREY images, buildings and 58 SLEAFORD artefacts. 58a Navigation House, Navigation Wharf, Carre Street, Sleaford. NG34 7TW Navigation House –Describing the Heritage of the Sleaford Navigation. Other subject areas within the Saturday and Sunday 11.00-16.30 School of Humanities include: Drama, English, Theology & Ethics, Heritage Education, 59a St John the WC Divine, Ferry Road, Business, and Sociology Southrey, Lincoln. LN3 5TA BA Honours, Masters degrees, and Foot, Fen and Freedom combination degrees with courses in Saturday and Sunday 10.00-16.00 other schools at BGU are available Southrey straddles two county byways; the Viking Way, threading country footpaths Thought to be the only one of its kind, between Oakham and Barton and the Water Navigation House is the refurbished Company Rail Way, hugging the River Witham banks For more information visit our Office of the Sleaford Navigation Company. between Lincoln and Boston. Our exhibition website: www.bishopg.ac.uk Detailed history, fun interactive and an intriguing explores the stories of both. History children's / family trail to enjoy.

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64 STICKNEY 62c All Saints’ Church, WC Red Lion Square, 60 SPALDING 61 STALLINGBOROUGH 64a Stickney WC Stamford. PE9 2AG Village Hall, Hall 60a Strawberry WC 61a St Peter & Stamford From the Air Lane, Stickney. Glass, Unique St Paul Church, PE22 8BA Cottage Studios, Church Saturday 10.00 & 12.00. Sunday 12.00 & Fulney Lane South, Spalding. PE12 6FA Lane, Stallingborough. DN41 8AA 14.00 History of Stickney Stained Glass - A Heritage Craft The Path to Martyrdom Saturday and Sunday 10.00-18.00 On display are censuses of surrounding Thursday 10.00-16.00 Sunday 14.00-16.00 parishes, newspaper cuttings, old trade Visit Strawberry Glass, a stained glass studio Discover Anne Askew (Ayscoughe) the Tudor letterheads, BMD records from local churches, located in converted farm buildings in a Martyr born 1520 of the noble Ayscoughe hundreds of photographs, information about delightful rural setting. You will learn about the family, burnt as a heretic in 1546, racked in many old buildings including deeds, family processes involved in the traditional craft of an attempt to implicate Queen Catherine in trees, wills and lots more about Stickney. stained glass working. outspoken anti Catholic rhetoric. Talk by Mr John Taylor at 14.15 and lasts approximately ½ 65 an hour. 60b Unique WC Cottage Studios, 65a St Oswald's Fulney Lane South, 62 STAMFORD Church, Church Spalding. PE12 6FA Lane, Strubby. LN13 0LR Heritage Textile Demonstration 62a Stamford Corn WC Booking Essential Contact: 01780 755611 Exchange, Broad Street, 'RAF Strubby', an Archive Dedicated to Thursday 10.00-16.00 Stamford. PE9 1PX Stamford TIC 144 step spiral staircase to a bird's eye view of Our WWII Heritage Unique Cottage Studios Fibre Art Group will “That’s Entertainment” History Tour be demonstrating heritage textile techniques, Stamford 120 feet above ground at the top of a Saturday 14.00-16.30 including spinning and weaving, based on Thursday, Friday and Sunday 10.30-11.30 fifteenth century church tower. History spreads Booking Essential Contact: Guided tours an Anglo Saxon woven band found in North Booking Essential Contact: 01780 766455 out before you, to the north, south, east and only, 01507 450205 Dot Webb or 01507 Lincolnshire. Stamford Corn Exchange west. Don't forget to bring your camera! Tour 450385 Margaret Farrow Stamford Corn Exchange history talk, film show lasts approximately 1 hour. Displays of archive materials relating to our and tour with a visit to our new heritage centre. WWII heritage. There will also be displays 60c Broad Street WC Methodist Church, Discover the history of the Corn Exchange and 62d St Leonard's Priory, Priory relating to our rural and farming heritage, Broad Street, the memorabilia collected and presented from Road, Stamford. PE9 2EU including a dedicated stained glass window. Pre Spalding. PE11 1TB past productions since 1859. H Inside St Leonard's Priory booking required for guided tours. Church and Heritage Saturday and Sunday 12.00-16.00 Collection 62b Stamford Library, High St, 66 SUTTERTON Stamford. PE9 2BB Visit this fine example of Norman architecture, Saturday 10.00-14.00 its interior not normally open to the public, with Family Tree Workshop 66a St Mary's WC Grade II Victorian Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, its remaining five 12th century arches and Church, opened in March 1887. Recently renovated. Saturday 10.00 & 12.30 Gothic west front set in peaceful grounds, with Station Road, Heritage collection featuring artefacts Booking Essential Contact: 01780 482138 a small information display. Sutterton. PE20 2JH H discovered during the renovation, including Stamford Library Sutterton Village 'time capsule' contents, and information on Would you like to learn how to carry out your 63 Past and Present history of Methodism in South Holland, own family history project? Using a letter from Saturday and Sunday 11.00-16.00 Lincolnshire. America to Stamford in 1888 and computers 63a St Helens Church, Church Road, Stickford. There will be photographs of past and present in the library, we can help you get started. PE22 8EP events. Flower arrangements will enhance Wheelchair users to specify when booking. Visit St Helens Church Stickford the architecture of this beautiful church. Light Session led by Chris Hunt Chair of Stamford refreshments will be served each day and there and District Local History Society. Saturday and Sunday 10.00-16.00 A Grade II* listed church, parts of which date will be tours of the church. back to the thirteenth century, restored by the Victorian architect James Fowler in 1863. Craft Fair Saturday 12.00 – 16.00.

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67a Sutton WC Bridge Golf 68b Holy WC Club, New Trinity Road, Sutton Bridge. PE12 9RQ Collegiate Sutton Bridge at War Church, Sleaford Road, . LN4 4LR Sunday 11.00-17.00 “Grave” of Tom Thumb Saturday and Sunday 09.30-16.30 Superb example of English Perpendicular architecture and one of the largest Parish churches in the country. Medieval glass in east window, many brasses. “Grave” of Tom Thumb Providing legal services to the can be seen in the nave. History of the Church talk at 14.00 both days. Wedding Fair in a beautiful Medieval Church. people of Lincolnshire since 1759

68c Timberland Diesel WC Pumping Station, Witham Bank, Tattershall. LN4 4JP On the bank of the River Witham between Kirkstead Bridge and Tattershall Bridge. Grid Ref TF188583 Timberland Diesel Pumping Station Saturday 13.00-16.30 With POW camps, a key airbase and helping to Working demonstration of Ruston Hornsby feed the nation, Sutton Bridge was in the thick 9XHRC engine and Ruston Bucyrus 10RB of it. This exhibition features local stories and Dragline. Plus other static displays and pictures of a small town responding to the war demonstrations. effort. over

68d Dogdyke Steam WC 68 TATTERSHALL Drainage Station, Tattershall. 250 68a Pow Cottage, WC LN4 4JG years 27, High Street, Entrance via Bridge Farm off the A153 east of Tattershall. LN4 4NP Tattershall Bridge Visit Pow Cottage Draining The Land: Dogdyke Steam Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday Drainage Station 12.00-17.00 Saturday 13.30-16.30 Traditional 15th century mud and Our 1856 beam engine will be in steam stud cottage serving homemade powering the scoop-wheel land drainage cream teas. Attractive relaxing pump. It's the last in the UK. Also see the 1940 garden. Tours of the cottage 13.00 Ruston and Gwynnes diesel pumping set in & 15.00. Tours of the garden 14.00 action. & 16.00, or wander around both at will. 0800 542 4245 | [email protected] | www.sillslegal.co.uk

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68e Tattershall Castle, 72 WELBOURN Sleaford Road, 72a Meet at the Tattershall. LN4 4LR 71 WAINFLEET Village Hall, Car 75 WINTERTON O/S Ref: TF211575. WC Park, Welbourn. On the A153 Sleaford 71a Magdalen Museum, LN5 0LZ 75a All Saints' WC and Horncastle road. St John's Street, Church, “Will, the Boy from Welbourn”, The Life Churchside, Tattershall Castle (National Trust) Wainfleet. and Times of Field Marshal Sir William PE24 4DL WC Winterton, Scunthorpe. DN15 9TU Sunday 11.00-16.00 Robertson O/S Ref: SE928186 Discover one of the first and finest medieval By train – exit the station and follow the brown sign Sunday 11.00-13.00 Winterton Riots & Enclosures brick castles in England. Take the winding along Silver Street 2 mins walk. By bus - Booking Essential Contact: 01400 272623 staircase, wander through vast echoing Saturday 10.00-16.00 (Skegness Boston via Wainfleet No 7) get off Bill Goodhand th chambers and walk out onto the battlements at Market Place, take St John’s Street 2 mins Talk at 14.00 on 17 Century Winterton William Robertson, born, in Welbourn 1860, th revealing the beauty of the Lincolnshire walk. By car - enter Wainfleet from A52. From Drainage Riots. 18 Century Enclosure. Award was the only man to rise from Private to Field countryside. Boston - at the railway crossing take Silver details are in the new Heritage Centre. Static Street follow brown sign Museum 200 yards Marshal and C.I.G.S. in WWI. Our village walk and digital displays about church, town people. on the right. From Skegness- St John’s Street (conducted by Bill Goodhand) will trace his Town and parish walk leaflets. Of interest to all 69 passing Market Place, the Museum is on the childhood years concluding at St Chads Church left. ages. 69a Thorpe Camp Visitor and the War Memorial which he unveiled in Centre, Tattershall Welcome to Wonderful Wainfleet 1920. 76 Thorpe. LN4 4PL Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday B1192 to WC 13.00-16.00 76a The Woodhall Spa road 73 WELL WC Walk at 14.30-15.30 Cottage 'Lincolnshire Voices of the Great War’ 73a St. Margaret Museum, of Antioch Church, Iddesleigh Road, Woodhall Spa. LN10 6SH Saturday and Sunday 13.00-17.00 Well, Alford. “Why Woodhall Spa?” We continue our series of events LN13 0ET commemorating the centenary of the Great War Sunday 10.30-16.00 Slavery and murder at St Margaret's, Visit the Cottage Museum to discover the with a special exhibition 'Lincolnshire Voices of Well. the Great War', a series of displays illustrating answer and experience much more. Enjoy Sunday 10.00-16.00 Lincolnshire life, both civilian and military. Last interactive displays and exhibits including the A Greek Temple design standing in parkland entry 16.00 story of Jubilee Park. You are assured of a designed by Capability Brown, this Church is warm welcome. strongly associated with the plantation and 70 THORPE CULVERT slave owning Dashwood family. A Gamekeeper 77 WRANGLE 70a Quinceys Pumping Station, murdered on his wedding day lies in the Culvert Road, Thorpe Culvert. churchyard. 77a St Mary WC PE24 4NJ & St Nicholas Church, Quinceys Pumping Station Working 74 WICKENBY Church End, Wrangle. Day PE22 9EW H 74a Broadbent WC Sunday 10.00-16.00 Theatre, Snarford Just off the A52 follow The station houses two Ruston and Hornsby Road off Station the signs to the Angel Inn (church opposite) diesel engines which drive Gwynnes pumps. © Copyright Dave Hitchborne CC BY-SA 3.0 Road, Wickenby. LN3 5AW Our Heritage The engines, which have been Nissen Hut to Theatre Saturday and Sunday 10.00-16.00 Major port on the Steeping River to quiet restored and maintained by a group Saturday and Sunday 10.30-16.00 Journey through our church and village town. Find the hidden history of Wainfleet of dedicated volunteers, can be Free United Methodist Chapel built 1878 heritage. See our stained glass windows and our fabulous Magdalen Museum building. seen running on open days. purchased in 1970 by Holton Players who (ancient & modern) and Compton organ. Refurbished museum, walled garden, quirky converted it into 100 seat theatre. Named Read memorial with links to the Lord Mayor of tearoom and church all open for you. Guided Broadbent Theatre in memory of Roy London; registers open to view. walk around Wainfleet starting at the Museum Broadbent (father of actor Jim Broadbent) who Thursday & Sunday at 14.30. designed the conversion.

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78a St Leodegar's WC Church, Church Lane, Wyberton. NOTES PE21 7AF Sign posted and H 1 mile from the A16 St Leodegar's Wyberton - Unique Since

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hursday 7 to Sunday 10 September #Li eritage Open Days 2017 - T 38 ncsHODs @HeritageLincs www.heritagelincolnshire.org H 39 Acknowledgements Heritage Lincolnshire co-ordinates For their support and assistance in Heritage Open Days across the organising Lincolnshire Heritage whole historic county of Lincolnshire. Open Days we wish to thank The charity also compiles this National Trust comprehensive programme of events, Historic England which is designed by our in-house Players of the People's Postcode graphic designer. Lottery The festival could not happen without Lincolnshire Heritage Open Days the passion and participation of Steering Group hundreds of volunteers and staff from For their continued financial support historic sites, museums and community and co-operation we are grateful to groups who generously give their Boston Borough Council time to share the local spaces, places District Council and stories that matter to them. Their Lincoln City Council dedication enables thousands of people Lincolnshire County Council from across and beyond the county to North East Lincolnshire Council discover the rich and diverse heritage Council that makes Lincolnshire special. District Council South Holland District Council In particular Heritage Lincolnshire District Council would like to thank members of the District Council Lincolnshire Heritage Open Days Heritage Lincolnshire also thanks its Steering Group, which is made up of members, supporters and partners representatives from various county that fund the charity's work. organisations. We are also indebted to our own volunteers, especially the tireless contribution of our volunteer HOD co-ordinator.

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