h e rt ag o m it N a r e h l e i H k a y r H T Return to Map 1 Click on a location to be Hykeham taken to its description Station HYKEHAM ROAD 5 The Pike Drain/ St Aiden’s Park (Page 6) 7 The Three Fields (Page 9) 6 Fosse Way/ Newark Road – Witham from Roman Road to Cattle Lane (Page 9) (Page 5) Millennium Green 4 River 2 Ceramic Parish Map (Page 1) Apex Lake 1 19 Sir Robert Pattinson Academy (Page 5) Memorial Hall 3 8 Town Council & Parish Map (Page 9) OneNK/ (Page 18) Terry O’Toole Theatre (Page 1) 18 Moor Lane (Page 18) (Page 14) The Green 12 (Page 18) The Ark 17 (Page 12) (Page 15) All Saints Church 16 Muck Alley NEWARK ROAD 13 11 Methodist 14 Chapel 9 The North Hykeham Pump Drain (Page 10) Sculp- (Page 14) 10 (Page 15) Site of Ladd’s Mill, North Hykeham 15 -tural The Pea Arches Picking Rooms (Page 12) (Page 15) Waddington BRANT ROAD MILL LANE Heritage Trail → 1 OneNK/ Terry O’Toole Theatre 2 Ceramic Parish Map Within the OneNK Leisure Centre sits The Cross the Newark Road. On the side of the Terry O’Toole Theatre, an intimate 200 shops to your right, on the opposite side of seat arts theatre which presents a vibrant Station Road, is a ceramic mural programme of professional drama, music, which was created as part of a Parish Maps dance and children’s theatre, complemented project for artsNK by local artist Pete Moss by community performances. The Theatre during workshops with North Kesteven was opened by acclaimed actor Jim School. A project inspired by the arts and Broadbent in 2002 and is named in memory of environment group Common Ground, it Terry O’Toole, former headteacher at North is one of many Parish Maps produced in Kesteven School, who was a passionate communities around North Kesteven. The supporter of the Arts. The OneNK Leisure area on this side of the Newark Road is Centre is built on land that was formerly the historically known as Hykeham Moor. farm of the Roe family. The Centre has free parking, toilets, a café and bike hire. www.terryotooletheatre.org.uk. Bike hire: at OneNK both pedal and electric bicycles are usually available for hire (details at www.visitlincoln.com/things-to-do/hirebike). Right: Fox & Hounds pub, Newark Rd NOTE: If you arrive by train, a bicycle can be hired Over the page: Rifle practice, North Hykeham Both from the collection of North Hykeham Town Council. at the railway station and the trail can start at: Reproduced with permission. 5 The Pike Drain (Page 6) 1 Return to Map 3 Memorial Hall Also note the site of the time capsule buried Turning left along the Newark Road you here. Pictures of both mills can be seen on ‘On 26th October 1859 a farmer from Claypole, J.S.Lee, got into a Midland Railway train at will come to the Memorial Hall. Built in the Ridges & Furrows website. Lincoln while drunk. As the train passed through North Hykeham he exposed himself to the 1969, this building replaced a circular tin other passengers. He was given a month’s hard labour for the exposure and fined £3.7s. for roof building known as The Tin Tabernacle 4 Millennium Green being drunk in a train.’ (Crime & Criminals in Victorian Lincolnshire by Adrian Gray) which the Parish Council moved to in 1948. Pass through the Millennium Green car park The original structure, ‘built after the 1st and the playground to join the path along World War ... had been opened in 1906 as the the edge of the playing field. Turn right and Club-House of the Hykeham Rifle Club’ (The walk alongside the lake. Part of Witham 5 The Pike Drain/ St Aiden’s Park species of fruit bearing trees including apple Hykeham Trail 1999). The Memorial Hall Valley Country Park, Millennium Green is Turn left onto Station Road which takes trees Reverend W. Wilks, Tower of Glamis, was requisitioned for military use in World one of a number of former gravel pits and its name from The Nottingham to Lincoln Monarch and Laxton’s Fortune. Also home War II and the army quickly erected a brick lakes put to recreational use in the area. As Railway line, which still crosses the road. to varieties of damsons, cherries, rosehips, structure alongside. The two millstones no boating or fishing is allowed here, there is Alongside the railway line was the site of the elderberries, blackberries, walnuts and set into the ground are reminders of the an abundance of water birds to be seen. Malleable Iron Foundry. All that is left of the hazlenuts.’ (Interpretation board in St two mills that used to operate in North www.withamvalleypark.co.uk works now is the road names of a housing Aiden’s Park). Hykeham. There is a French Burr Millstone estate: Ferrous Way, Crucible Close, Forge Cross St Aiden’s Park diagonally, coming from the North Hykeham Post Mill, built If you have started this trail at The Pike Way, for example. out on St Mark’s Close. Follow St George’s 1753, which was sited between the Memorial Drain, the tables and benches provided here Join the pathway alongside the Pike Close and Johnson’s Lane to the Newark Hall and the Fox and Hounds Inn, and an make an excellent place to stop for a picnic Drain. Cross the bridge. With the Pike Drain Road, and turn left. English Peak Millstone from Ladd’s Mill, or refreshments before cycling back to the on your left, on your right are the remains which we will encounter later in this trail. Railway Station. of an old orchard containing ‘old and rare 5 Return to Map Return to Map 6 An alternative way for cyclists would be to Right: North Hykeham Foundry access the park through St David’s Road From the collection of North Hykeham Town Council. Reproduced with permission. and St Hilary’s Close. It may be necessary to dismount and push bicycles through St Aiden’s Park. Leys Malleable Foundry was a major local employer from 1938 to 1981 when it was taken over by George Fischer of Switzerland. In 1986, 350 people worked there, 290 on the shop floor and 60 as supervisors and in the offices. George Fischer made castings for motors, both non-ferrous and ferrous. For ferrous castings they used scrap metal, limestone and carbon. For non-ferrous castings they used aluminium. In 2003 the Meade Corporation acquired the site, renaming the foundry Lincoln Castings under which name it operated until the plant’s final closure in 2006. Before Leys, Harrisons (who were iron makers on the Brayford in Lincoln) ran the foundry. Prior to that, a jam factory stood on the site. 7 Return to Map 6 Fosse Way/ Newark Road – from The first of the three sections of this Elizabeth Avenue to where it crosses Water Roman Road to Cattle Lane pathway is designated a Cycle Path. The Lane and becomes Meadow Lane. The First * Gryphaea, common name, Devil’s As you walk along the busy Newark Road third section may be difficult for cyclists in right is Cross Lane. Toenails, is a genus of extinct oysters, think that not only did Roman legions walk bad weather. As an alternative route use marine bivalve molluscs in the family this road but, within living memory, this was Dore Avenue. 9 The North Hykeham Pump Drain Gryphaeidae. These fossils range the route that Sid Roe drove his cows from Continue along Fen Lane until you reach from the Triassic to the Tertiary Moor Lane, where this trail started, towards 8 Town Council & Parish Map open fields and take the footpath to the periods, but are mostly restricted Lincoln on their way to pasture. One of the Turn left into Fen Lane. At the North right. You are here following at some to the Triassic and Jurassic. Both places that they grazed was in the ‘Three Hykeham Town Council building, stop to distance, the North Hykeham Pump Drain, periods belong to the Mesozoic. Fields,’ and the pathway we are about to take view the artworks inside the reception formerly shown as the Old River Dyke. ‘Until See image on the next page. on the other side of the A46 was known as area. A photographic hanging and panels of 1770, this was the bank of the River Witham. the Three Fields Path. poetry, they form a further part of the Parish A coal jetty stood nearby at what was The nearby Asda store occupies the site Maps project referred to earlier, this time reputed to be the highest navigable point on of the old Manor Hall. the artworks were created by Beth Davidson. the river. Coal barges came here in the winter months when the river was flooded.’ (The 7 The Three Fields The trail along The North Hykeham Pump Hykeham Trail 1999). This was an area where Take the narrow pathway from the Newark Drain section, to where the route joins the local fossil, the Devils Toenail*, was to be Rd, cross Chestnut Road and Ash Grove, Water Lane, is not advised for bicycles, found in plenty. Follow the footpath to the pass behind the Fosse Way Primary School especially in winter. After viewing the point where it comes alongside the Pump Over the page: Devil’s Toenails into Dore Avenue and continue to the Lincoln landscape, an alternative route can be Drain, and meets the Ridges & Furrows Trail Image by Malcolm Lidbury and sourced from Wikimedia.org Road, which you then cross and turn right.