[190a] Sewer is a common local name for a drain, or even a clear running stream. Such a stream, called the Sewer, rises at Well-syke Wood in this parish, and runs into the Witham river, nearly four miles distant, perfectly limpid throughout its course. As to the name Well-syke, “sike” is an old term for a “beck,” or small running stream. “Sykes and meres” are frequently mentioned in old documents connected with land. The word syke is doubtless connected with “soak,” and this wood was so named because the “syke” welled up within a marshy part of it.
[190b] Architectural Society’s Journal, vol. xxiii, pp. 122 and 132.
[190c] Harleyan MS., No. 6829, p. 244.
[191] It was at Roughton in 1631.
[192a] Lincs. Notes & Queries, vol. iii, pp. 245–6.
[192b] Harleyan MS., No. 6829, p. 245.
[194a] Sir Jos. Banks was Lord of the Manor.
[194b] Archdeacn Churton’s English Church; Introd. Domesday Book, by C. Gowen Smith, p. xxxii.
[195a] Harleyan MS., No. 6829, p. 218.
[195b] Burn’s Justice, vol. v, pp. 823–4.