190517-JA2 North Kesteven 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 Sleaford to Kelby • 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 market town of Sleaford, venture to Silk Willoughby, then travel North past Greylees. Pass through South Rauceby and then on to Kelby, before continuing past rolling fields through Culverthorpe and Swarby and back to 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 (28.7km) and has some steady hills. Kesteven District Council cannot be held responsible for any errors, omissions or The route avoids main roads and is suited to experienced cyclists. alterations contained within it. The inclusion of an establishment within this leaflet does not imply any official recommendations by North Kesteven District Council. 1 From Sleaford Marketplace, follow the 1 one way system, down Carre Street, Rauceby Hospital Sleaford round to Boston Road and past Handley’s The hospital was designed Sleaford is a market town and civil parish in Lincolnshire, Monument towards the level crossing. by George Thomas Hine using an England. It is on the edge of the fertile Fenlands, about 11 miles “echelon layout”. Construction began north-east of Grantham, 16 miles west of Boston, and 17 miles 2 Travel down London Road, shortly after in 1897 and it was officially opened as south of Lincoln. 2 crossing the tracks, and follow this road Kesteven County Asylum on 20 June 1902. The gardens were The first settlement formed in the Iron Age where a prehistoric designed under a separate contract by William Goldring. track crossed the River Slea. It was a tribal centre and home to a until you get to Silk Willoughby. In Silk An isolation unit, built in 1919 on the western edge of the site mint for the Corieltauvi in the 1st centuries BC and AD. Evidence Willoughby, turn right down School Lane. was never used as such; instead it housed those residents of Roman and Anglo-Saxon settlement has been uncovered, working on the farm. The facility became Kesteven Mental and by the late Saxon period the town was an economic and 3 Follow School Lane and then cross Hospital in 1924 and Rauceby Mental Hospital in 1933. jurisdictional centre with a court and market. 3 the A15 onto Willoughby Road heading In 1940 the building was taken over by the Royal Air Force; Sleaford was primarily an agricultural town until the 20th century, supporting a cattle market, renamed as No.4 RAF Hospital Rauceby, it became a crash with seed companies, such as Hubbard and Phillips, and Sharpes International Seeds, being towards Greylees. and burns unit under the control of nearby RAF Cranwell. established in the late 19th century. The arrival of the railway made the town favourable for malting. During its tenure as a burns unit plastic surgeon Archibald 44 Continue on Willoughby Road, around McIndoe worked at the facility, along with other members of Greylees and cross the A153 onto the “Guinea Pig Club”. The wartime Burns Unit was situated in Rauceby Drove. Keep on Rauceby Drove Orchard House, built alongside the hospital orchard. all the way to South Rauceby. 5 Bear left as Rauceby Drove becomes 5 Main Street. Keep on Main Street and follow it round where it then becomes Thorpe Drove. 6 Follow Thorpe Drove until it meets the 6 A153. Turn left and soon after, turn right, crossing the River Slea. Keep on this road until the next right hand turn. Take this turn heading to Kelby. 77 Turn left when you get to Kelby and remain on this road through Kelby and down Oasby Road. Remain on Oasby Road until it meets Church Lees and turn left. Silk Willoughby 8 This road will take you through Heydour Burton Pedwardine is 8 and wind left. Keep left and continue on Heydour named after until you get to Culverthorpe. a Herefordshire family, the The Domesday Pedwardines, who acquired the hall and Book records the place manor through marriage about 1330. 99 Turn right onto Culverthorpe Road to as “Haidure” The village Grade II listed Anglican parish Swarby. In Swarby, take a left off Swarby and “Heidure”, with 80 acres (32 ha) of Swarby church is dedicated to St Andrew. It was road down Back Lane until it meets the A15. meadow and 16 acres (6.5 ha) of woodland rebuilt by Sir Roger Pedwardine in the early within the manor of Osbournby. The village name is Scandinavian in origin, and 14th century on a cruciform plan with central Turn left on the A15 and follow it until you Around the village, particularly to the south, comes from the Old Norse for a farmstead or tower. The tower collapsed in 1802, and the 10 are earthwork indications of houses, crofts, village of a person named ‘Svarri’. church was rebuilt. It was again rebuilt reach the right hand turn for London Road. quarries and ridge and furrow field systems The parish church is dedicated to Saint in Decorated style in 1870, retaining its from an earlier Medieval village. The village Mary and All Saints and is a Grade II* listed building dating from original transept from the pre-1802 church. 11 Follow London Road back into Silk belonged to the historical wapentake of the 13th century. It was restored in 1886 and the south aisle dates A notable murder occurred in the parish in 11 Willoughby and Sleaford. Winnibriggs and Threo. from the same time. The west tower is 15th-century. On the north 1728, when Captain Thomas Mitchell, Heydour Grade I listed Anglican parish wall of the chancel is a rectangular ashlar wall plaque to Anthony a Justice of the Peace, killed a bailiff named Retrace your steps over the level crossing church, is dedicated to St Michael. The church Williams who died in 1681. Pennystone Warden of Ewerby. The captain 12 originates from the 12th century, with A tornado swept through the village on 28 June 2012. It uprooted was committed to Lincoln Castle by two of and down to Handley’s Monument, follow additions up to the 19th. There is a 12th- many trees, lifted a trampoline hundreds of feet and caused a his fellow magistrates and subsequently the one way system down Southgate and century canonical sundial on the south wall. garage roof to collapse while removing tiles from houses. sentenced to death at Lincoln Assizes. onto Eastgate back to Marketplace. .