190820-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: Sleaford to Heckington accidents, including • Give way to pedestrians: leave them plenty of room • 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 (Short) • 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 and along winding country lanes to Heckington. Here you will pass its famous eight sailed windmill and continue on the picturesque route through Ewerby, Kirkby la Thorpe 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 medium distance (26.5km) 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 North Kesteven District Council. 11 Starting at Sleaford Station, cross the tracks and turn right. Follow the road left Sleaford Ewerby onto London Road and follow it all the way Sleaford is a market town and civil parish in Lincolnshire, England. It is on At Ewerby are the Haverholme to Silk Willoughby. the edge of the fertile Fenlands, about 11 miles north-east of Grantham, 16 Priory ruins, and the Grade I miles west of Boston, and 17 miles south of Lincoln. listed Anglican church dedicated Coming out of Silk Willoughby, turn left The first settlement formed in the Iron Age where a prehistoric track crossed to St Andrew. The church is an 22 the River Slea. It was a tribal centre and home to a mint for the Corieltauvi in example of early 14th century Decorated style with a onto Gorse Lane and continue on until the 1st centuries BC and AD. Evidence of Roman and Anglo-Saxon settlement has been uncovered, and 172 feet (52 m) spire. In the north chancel is the you meet Mareham Lane. Here take a left by the late Saxon period the town was an economic and jurisdictional centre with a court and market. recumbent effigy of Sir Alexander Aunsell, the founder and then almost immediately, a right onto Sleaford was primarily an agricultural town until the 20th century, supporting a cattle market, with seed of the church. St Andrew’s was restored in 1895. In late companies, such as Hubbard and Phillips, and Sharpes International Seeds, being established in the late 2009 the ecclesiastical parishes of Kirkby Whitecross Lane. 19th century. The arrival of the railway made the town favourable for malting. Laythorpe and Ewerby became part of the benefice of New Sleaford, to be held in plurality. 33 When you meet Helpringham Road, turn The village public house is the Finch Hatton Arms on right and follow the road into Burton Main Street. Pedwardine. 44 Turn left down Heckington Road and follow it to Heckington, where it becomes Burton Road. 55 At the end of the road, turn right down Sleaford Road until you reach the crossroad where the COOP is on your right. Here turn left. 66 At the end of Eastgate, turn right on Vicarage Road and then right onto Kyme Road at the primary school. 77 Follow Kyme Road until just after you cross the A17. Here, turn left, follow this road through Howell and on to Ewerby Thorpe. Silk Willoughby Burton Pedwardine is 88 Turn left onto Thorpe Road and continue named after until you meet Main Street. Turn left and a Herefordshire family, the Pedwardines, who acquired the hall and cycle through Ewerby. manor through marriage about 1330. The village Grade II listed Anglican parish 99 Follow Main Street straight which church is dedicated to St Andrew. It was becomes Kirkby Road and then Ewerby rebuilt by Sir Roger Pedwardine in the early 14th century on a cruciform plan Road. Follow this road all the way to Kirkby with central tower. The tower collapsed in la Thorpe. 1802, and the church was rebuilt. It was again rebuilt in Decorated style in 1870, Heckington As you come through Kirkby la Thorpe retaining its original transept from the 1010 pre-1802 church. Heckington Grade I listed Anglican parish church is dedicated to St Andrew. It Ewerby Road ends. Turn left here onto A notable murder occurred in the parish is of cruciform plan and in a complete Decorated style. The original 14th- Boston Road, follow it up over the A17 and in 1728, when Captain Thomas Mitchell, century church was acquired by Bardney Abbey in 1345, and subsequently a through into Sleaford. a Justice of the Peace, killed a bailiff new chancel was built by vicar Richard de Potesgrave, chaplain to Edward III. named Pennystone Warden of Ewerby. The nearly 1,000-year-old village is best known for its windmill of the same The captain was committed to Lincoln At the end of Boston Road, turn left at the name, the only 8-sailed example of its type still standing in the UK and Europe. 11 Castle by two of his fellow magistrates The tower windmill built as a five-sailed mill in 1830 and turned into an eight- Handley Monument and continue on to the and subsequently sentenced to death at sailed mill after serious storm damage in 1890–92 was formerly (and sometimes station. Lincoln Assizes. still today) named Pocklington’s Mill after its last owner John Pocklington..