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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: Bassingham to 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 • Don’t expect to cycle at high speeds Witham St. Hughs – 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

Cycle from Bassingham to Carlton le Moorland and on to Norton Disney, crossing the River Witham. Then journey north to Witham St Hughs, passing a number of lakes, Norton Big Wood and the old airfield. Pass back over the River Witham to Aubourn and back to Bassingham. 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 (16km) 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 From the start point, go south west on Lincoln Road and onto Carlton Road Auborn Bassingham through Bassingham. The village of Aubourn is located approximately 8 miles south, south west of the City of Bassingham is a village Lincoln, adjacent to the River Witham, which winds its way eastwards to The Haven, a and in tidal arm of the Wash. Before the Second World War, the lower land to the east of the the North Kesteven district Follow this road to Carlton le Moorland, village was allowed to flood during the winter if the river rose too high, but since then a flood bank 2.5 metre of , . 22 high has been erected to prevent flooding and protect the village. The population of the civil crossing Broughton Road onto Vicarage At the eastern end of the village stands Aubourn Hall, an early to mid-17th-century house set in 1.2 ha parish at the 2011 census of gardens. Built for Sir John Meres between 1587 and 1628, possibly on Tudor foundations, it is brick, with was 1,425. The village is Lane and round to Church Street where stone quoins, and three storeys high. The interior of the house includes a carved staircase and panelled situated approximately 8 it will soon meet High Street. rooms. The property has been the home of the Nevile family since the 17th century. miles (13 km) south-west from the city and county town of Lincoln. A Ham class minesweeper, HMS Bassingham, Turn right and head up the high street was named after the village 33 The church of St. Michael and All Angels was and go left onto Norton Disney Road. recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086. The church is in the Bassingham Group of seven Follow this road, over the River Witham, churches. and soon after turn right onto Clay lane. In 1998 the church added a seventh bell: the ship’s bell from HMS Bassingham, presented by her former commander after she was From Clay Lane, go left onto Main decommissioned. It hangs in a mahogany bell 44 hood in the north aisle and is rung to signal the Street heading towards Norton Disney start of Sunday worship. and then right on Butt Lane.

55 Continue on this road, past Big Wood and round past Witham St. Hughs, joining Bassingham Road and turning left heading through Thurlby on Haddington Lane.

66 Keep on Haddington Lane until you reach a right turn for Dovecote lane. Take this right and join Butts Lane.

7 Continue straight ahead on Butts Lane and take the next right onto Bridge Road. Witham St. Hughs 88 Cross the River Witham and soon you Witham St. Hughs takes it will reach Church Road. Go right onto name from the river Witham Norton Disney whcih runs nearby, and St. Bassingham Road Hugh, bishop of Lincoln. Norton Disney is the seat of the Disney family, the name an Anglicised version of Hugh was born at the château of Avalon at the original French surname d’Isigny, of Isigny-sur-Mer, Normandy, from whom film the border of the Dauphiné with Savoy, the producer Walt Disney’s family might be descended. 9 Follow this road back to Bassingham, son of William, seigneur of Avalon. His Two mosaic floors were found when excavating a Roman villa in the parish. The site was 9 mother Anna died when he was eight, and near to the Roman town of Brough or Crocoalana, on the , just over the border turning right on Linga Lane and then his father retired to the nearby priory of in Nottinghamshire. left onto Lincoln Road to reach your Villard Benoît at Pontcharra near Grenoble, During the Second World War, RAF Station Swinderby (later renamed RAF Station Norton Disney) was home to No 93 Maintenance Unit (No 93 MU) from Aug 1939 until 1958. start point. taking his young son with him.