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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: accidents, including • Give way to pedestrians: leave them plenty of room to • 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 Swinethorpe • 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

Begin in Skellingthorpe and travel up into the town before cutting West towards Harby on a long cycle path. Then complete a circular route going through Harby and Doddington, where you will pass the historic Doddington Hall, and come back along the cycle path to the beginning. 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 distance is medium (21.4km) and has some gradual inclines. Kesteven District Council cannot be held responsible for any errors, omissions or The route travels on some busy 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 District Council. 1 From your starting point, at Daisy 1 Made Ice Cream, turn left onto Old Wood Skellingthorpe Lincoln Road and follow it into Old Wood is (as its Skellingthorpe may have originated with Danish occupiers. The earliest-known spelling of name would suggest) its name, Scheldinchope, suggests an in marsh associated with a man named Skellingthorpe. an ancient woodland Sceld. Around 1953 a blue and white ring (dated by the to c. 875 AD) was forming part of the found in Stoney Yard. This and the fact that the Danes established themselves elsewhere Take a left just after the Health Witham Valley Country Park. In the Middle in by the year 876 reinforce the supposition that Skellingthorpe became a settlement in the late 9th 22 Ages it was used as a deer park. An 1847 century. Centre onto a cycle route and follow county guidebook observed of the bird- Skellingthorpe Hall is to the east of the village. Pevsner describes the hall as, ‘A Greekly august house of the early life in the parish: ‘The extensive wood is C.19. The porch is particularly good, with pilasters at the angles and fluted Greek Doric columns in antis with a finely it as it cuts through Skellingthorpe frequented by the fork-tailed kite, and used carved frieze behind them above the entrance’. The hall is a Grade II Listed Building The Manor House is also a behind the Community Centre to possess a heronry.’ In 1933 the wood Grade II Listed Building, dating from around 1811, which formerly went by the name of ‘West Manor’. was the home of a large brown, or ‘white- continuing on the wooded trail over tailed’, eagle with a seven-foot wingspan. Jerusalem Road and Carr Lane. Unfortunately, it migrated south and was shot near following a series of attacks on farmer’s livestock there. 33 Pass Station Road and Station It is a varied site with a mixture of ancient House and then follow a left hand oak, lime woodland and conifers. The woodland also has a high conservation turn which will bring you back on value which will develop further as the yourself and up onto Station Road. conifer areas, which were planted during the 1950s and 1960s, are replaced by Turn right and head towards Harby, native species. To the west of the village, down Harby High Street and out the Old Wood merges with the smaller Old Hag Wood, and there is an Woodland other side on Church Road. Trust information board here. 44 Keep on this road, past Fir Tree Farm and then Hurn Wood until you reach Eagle Moor. 55 Turn left here and through Eagle Moor, taking a left at Highfield Farm, turning off Eagle Road and up past Pickworth’s Plot to Road. 66 Turn left and head up Whisby Road into Doddington and past Harby Doddington Hall on Main Street The parish church of (B1190) All Saints’ was built in 1875–1876 in Early English style. 7 Keep on this road for quite some In the east wall of Doddington Hall 7 the tower is a statue in memory time, until a left hand turn for Station of , Queen Consort of Doddington Hall was built between 1593 and 1600 by Robert Smythson for Thomas Tailor, who Road. Follow Station Road through King Edward I of , who died at was a lawyer, the Recorder to the Bishop of Lincoln. It is a grade I listed building. In the 12th the nearby house of Richard de Weston century the manor of Doddington was owned by the Pigot family who sold it to Sir Thomas North Harby and back to the cycle on 28 November 1290. The moated site of Burgh in 1450, and eventually to John Savile of Howley Hall in Leeds. In 1593, he sold the route where you joined he road. Weston’s house is to the east of the manor house to Thomas Tailor who commissioned the present house. church. The Queen’s body was The Hall’s contents, including textiles, ceramics, porcelain, furniture and pictures, reflect 400 years of unbroken family transported to for burial. The occupation. It is surrounded by 6 acres of walled and wild gardens with flowering from early spring until autumn. 88 Rejoin the cycle route and retrace King ordered Eleanor crosses to be built The Hall and Gardens are open to the public, with facilities for private tours and school visits. A temple designed by your steps back to Skellingthorpe at each place where her body had rested Anthony Jarvis in 1973 stands in the gardens. Other businesses have been developed on the estate such as the sale and Daisy Made Ice Cream. overnight on the journey. of trees, weddings, a Cycle shop with cafe and a farm shop selling local produce.