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ROUND AND ABOUT West Lindsey District SAXILBY STREET MAP SAXILBY with INGLEBY ...the highpoint of Lincolnshire Bransby Home of Rest for Horses WHERE TO EAT The Bransby Home cares for AD IN SAXILBY RO over 250 rescued horses, H RC U ponies and donkeys. In CH The Bridge Inn addition, the Bransby Home Tel: 01522 702266 has over 140 animals which www.thebridgeinnsaxilby.co.uk are placed with private MANOR ROAD Inset L/R St. Botolph Church | Saxilby Post Office / High Street families. Open to visitors Harbour City Chinese Restaurant Sun Inn Public House every day of the year from Burton Waters Marina MILL LANE 8am to 4pm. Tel: 01522 575031 Tel: 01427 788464 www.harbourcitylincs.co.uk Village HIGHFIELD ROAD iable for any inaccuracy contained herein. Hall H www.bransbyhorses.co.uk SY Lemon Tree Café KE IG S L H ANE S Living Gardens, T School HISTORY R Saxilby Riding School EE Skellingthorpe Road, T Children can learn more about Recreation Tel: 01522 702405 Ground horses and how to care for Saxilby Station them. Expert tuition is Madarin Chinese Takeaway BRI DGE STREET provided for the children by Tel: 01522 702888 ANK ST B Turn left down Church Lane and you will see the Church of St Retrace your steps to the centre of the village. Passing St. Andrew’s Turn right into West Bank, pass over the level crossing and qualified staff, both in the WE indoor and the outdoor school. Pyewipe Inn A57 Botolph on your right. The church is open all day, and a visit is highly Mission Church at the corner of Station Approach on the right. The turn right onto Bridge Street. Bridge Street, with its shops and Lin Saxilby Road, Lincoln co Tel: 01522 702240 ln d recommended. A Norman doorway on the north side of the building small building just past the village sign was once one of several pubs, runs alongside the Foss Dyke Canal. The oldest canal in to Sheffiel CANAL Tel: 01522 528708 proves that a stone building has stood on this site for 900 years. The blacksmith’s forges. England, it was built by the Romans around AD100 (‘Foss’ is Latin Burton Waters Marina www.pyewipeinn.co.uk Map not to scale tower, rebuilt in 1908, contains six bells, one of which dates from for ‘Canal’). Until the mid 1930s, a swing bridge in the location Set in around 140 acres of The Sun Inn Walkabout unspoilt countryside, the around 1550. Inside, a fourteenth century tomb-chest carries the Continue along the High Street passing the fire station on your of the existing footbridge carried the A57 from Worksop to Lincoln. Tel: 01522 702326 marina is an integral part of www.suninnsaxilby.co.uk effigies of a knight and his lady, which may be that of Sir Giles and right. The fire station marks the site of another former Methodist Saxilby the exclusive Burton Waters Lady Alianore Daubney, Lords of the Manor of Ingleby. The front Church. Built by the Free Methodists in 1851, it was extended by ‘The Ship’ and ‘Sun Inn’ have stood here since Development. The Anglers the Primitive Methodists in 1875. The last service was held in Tel: 01522 567404 Tel: 01522 702200 WITH INGLEBY (of a similar period) bares the associated coats of arms of their family. records began, and it was here in 1806 that the September 1944. Near the front is displayed copies of sheets of music over 500 years body of a young girl was laid out in ‘the sun’ Lincoln Golf Club, Torksey Scrummies Tearoom West Lindsey District Council old; the originals are now in the County Archives. On the south wall Tel: 01427 718721 Tel: 01522 703528 The Tourism Development Unit Continue until you reach West Bank, the road to your right. Standing under the tower is a list of priests who have served the church since following her murder on their wedding day by her www.lincolngc.co.uk Guildhall, Marshall’s Yard, Gainsborough on this corner, the cottage opposite was another former pub, Woodcocks Inn 1209, and of the priests of the chapel at Ingleby dating from the husband, Tom Temporal, alias Otter. Following his Burton Waters Marina Lincolnshire DN21 2NA ‘The Globe Inn’. RAF Scampton T. (01427) 676666 F. (01427) 675170 Norman Conquest in 1066. execution, his body was hung in chains close to Historical Museum Tel: 01522 575031 e. [email protected] Tel: 01522 879137 From the High Street, turn right into West Bank. Pass over the the murder spot on Doddington Road, also known Yots Bar & Bistro www.west-lindsey.gov.uk Burton Waters Marina To the side of the church is the original level crossing and turn immediately left over the canal footbridge. as Tom Otter’s Lane. Stow Minster Tel: 01427 788787 Tel: 01522 537300 West Lindsey District Council is extremely Church of England Junior School. Make your way onto the canal-side on your right just over the www.stowminster.org.uk www.yotsbar.co.uk bridge and walk along the grassy footpath along the bank. A large grateful to the “History of Saxilby and District Group” This brings you to the end of the market town trail. Now a private house and nursery school ivy-covered wall on your left marks the lower storey of the former for their support with the project. We do hope you enjoyed experiencing the sites and history malt kiln and brewhouse. A short walk by the side of the canal takes Free walking and cycling routes available from West Lindsey Author: Chris Hewis - it opened in 1845, and was built at a of Saxilby. Please come again soon. Photographs courtesy of: Andrew Court you to the Bridge Inn, with its canal-side garden. District Council Tourism Unit. Tel: 01427 676666∑ ©WLDC January 2008 cost of £414 2s 1d! VISIT DISCLAIMER Great care has been taken in the compilation of this leaflet, but West Lindsey District Council shall not be l WHERE TO FIND US INTRODUCTION A modern, expanding village with an ancient GLASGOW Edinburgh heart, Saxilby with Ingleby has much to For a detailed street map of Saxilby please refer to Newcastle offer both residents and visitors alike. the back page. Durham A1(M) Well served by public transport, the village can be reached by road, A1 York Hull M63 M18 M62 HUMBERSIDE rail and boat. Both bus and rail services connect the village with M180 MANCHESTER Lincoln Lincoln and Gainsborough. There are services at least hourly throughout Nottingham Inset L/R Saxilby Railway Station | Saxilby Canal Mooring | Saxilby Village Sign Stamford the day, with connections to Yorkshire and the Midlands. If visiting HUMBER EAST MIDLANDS BRIDGE HULL Norwich Saxilby Methodist Church | Saxilby Village Hall BIRMINGHAM Cambridge by boat, there are 72-hour moorings available in the village centre, SOUTH HUMBERSIDE STANSTEAD INTERNATIONAL Harwich YORKSHIRE AIRPORT M25 with a canal-side picnic area and barbecues. SCUNTHORPE LONDON BRIGG GRIMSBY ROTTERDAM HEATHROW Sheerness CLEETHORPES ZEEBRUGGE GATWICK CAISTOR Dover GAINSBOROUGH As with many other villages in Northern Lincolnshire, Saxilby with WEST LINDSEY WALKABOUT SAXILBY DIRECTIONS REGENERATION MARKET RASEN LOUTH MABLETHORPE Ingleby was subject to the control of the Vikings for much of the NOTTINGHAMSHIRE SAXILBY ninth and tenth centuries. The name of Saxilby is derived from the A1 BARDNEY LINCOLN HORNCASTLE SKEGNESS Viking ‘ayse ce eyes le by’ meaning ‘the farm amidst the mooring NEWARK LINCOLNSHIRE pools’. Ingleby maintains its fifth century Anglo-Saxon origins, meaning SLEAFORD BOSTON Opposite St. Andrew’s Church stands the former Station Hotel ‘settlement of Angles’. Dominated by the Norman St Botolphs Church, Saxilby Walkabout is designed to take you Standing opposite the Village Hall is ‘The Anglers’ - previously which opened on 29th October 1839. It closed in 1940 when the GRANTHAM – previously known as the Mason’s Arms, a former landlord looked known as the Railway Hotel, another enterprising landlord adopted present chapel opened and was demolished in the early 1970s. A180 and standing on the Roman Foss Dyke Canal, the village boasts an around the village to see sites and places B1211 A1 SPALDING to increase his trade by changing the name following the arrival of a name change following an influx of anglers from Yorkshire during LEICESTERSHIRE B1210 Brocklesby excellent guesthouse, along with modern shops, restaurants and pubs; Keelby that are considered to be of most interest NORFOLK A18 a chemist and health centre is also available. the railway! the late nineteenth century. As many as 1,000 would arrive for Just before the corner of Torksey Avenue on the left stands The Old STAMFORD CAMBRIDGESHIRE Great Limber Bigby to yourself and fellow visitors. Along the matches on most weekends! Hall, the oldest surviving house in Saxilby. Whilst No.74 High Street A1084 Searby A1173 Ideal for recreation, take a stroll around the village, or take a longer At the rear of the Old Mason’s Arms stands an old barn, which was may look like any other old cottage, an eighteenth century brick skin B1434 Grasby Swallow way, there will be various places for you to Susworth A46 walk along the many surrounding public footpaths and bridleways. Saxilby’s original Wesleyan Methodist Church. Built in 1808, it gives Continue along the High Street. Standing next to the Village Hall hides a genuine timber-framed open medieval hall. Built on behalf of Scotter North Kelsey CAISTOR East Ferry Scotton stop off and eat, or just to sit down and its name to the small lane at the side of the Old Mason’s Arms, is the old Infants School, now a private house – the school opened Sir Thomas Burgh for his son between 1480 and 1490, two and a half Rothwell Fishing is popular along the canal banks, and there is a riding stable Wildsworth A159 South Kelsey Nettleton Northorpe A46 Thorganby in the village centre.