PAGE
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTORY[1]
CHAPTER II
STAMFORD[7]
CHAPTER III
STAMFORD TO BOURNE[18]
CHAPTER IV
ROADS FROM BOURNE[28]
CHAPTER V
SOUTH-WEST LINCOLNSHIRE[39]
CHAPTER VI
GRANTHAM[52]
CHAPTER VII
ROADS FROM GRANTHAM[64]
CHAPTER VIII
SLEAFORD[76]
CHAPTER IX
LINCOLN CATHEDRAL[91]
CHAPTER X
PAULINUS AND HUGH OF LINCOLN[112]
CHAPTER XI
LINCOLN CITY[120]
CHAPTER XII
ROADS FROM LINCOLN, WEST AND EAST[137]
CHAPTER XIII
ROADS SOUTH FROM LINCOLN[148]
CHAPTER XIV
PLACES OF NOTE NEAR LINCOLN[165]
CHAPTER XV
HERMITAGES AND HOSPITALS[178]
CHAPTER XVI
ROADS NORTH FROM LINCOLN[182]
CHAPTER XVII
GAINSBOROUGH AND THE NORTH-WEST[195]
CHAPTER XVIII
THE ISLE OF AXHOLME[208]
CHAPTER XIX
GRIMSBY AND THE NORTH-EAST[215]
CHAPTER XX
CAISTOR[228]
CHAPTER XXI
LOUTH[239]
CHAPTER XXII
ANGLO-SAXON, NORMAN AND MEDIÆVAL ART[251]
CHAPTER XXIII
ROADS FROM LOUTH, NORTH AND WEST[262]
CHAPTER XXIV
LINCOLNSHIRE BYWAYS[278]
CHAPTER XXV
THE BOLLES FAMILY[285]
CHAPTER XXVI
THE MARSH CHURCHES OF EAST LINDSEY[290]
CHAPTER XXVII
LINCOLNSHIRE FOLKSONG[296]
CHAPTER XXVIII
MARSH CHURCHES OF SOUTH LINDSEY[305]
CHAPTER XXIX
WAINFLEET TO SPILSBY[323]
CHAPTER XXX
SPILSBY AND NEIGHBOURHOOD[333]
CHAPTER XXXI
SOMERSBY AND THE TENNYSONS[343]
CHAPTER XXXII
ROADS FROM SPILSBY[358]
CHAPTER XXXIII
SCRIVELSBY AND TATTERSHALL[372]
CHAPTER XXXIV
BARDNEY ABBEY[390]
CHAPTER XXXV
HOLLAND FEN[400]
CHAPTER XXXVI
THE FEN CHURCHES—NORTHERN DIVISION[409]
CHAPTER XXXVII
ST. BOTOLPH’S TOWN (BOSTON)[425]
CHAPTER XXXVIII
SPALDING AND THE CHURCHES NORTH OF IT[441]
CHAPTER XXXIX
CHURCHES OF HOLLAND[463]
CHAPTER XL
THE BLACK DEATH[480]
CHAPTER XLI
CROYLAND[483]
CHAPTER XLII
LINCOLNSHIRE FOXHOUNDS[493]
APPENDIX I
SAMUEL WESLEY’S EPITAPH[499]
APPENDIX II
DR. WM. STUKELEY[500]
APPENDIX III
A LOWLAND PEASANT POET[501]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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BOSTON[Frontispiece]
ST. LEONARD’S PRIORY, STAMFORD[8]
ST. GEORGE’S SQUARE, STAMFORD[10]
ST. MARY’S STREET, STAMFORD[11]
ST. PAUL’S STREET, STAMFORD[13]
ST. PETER’S HILL, STAMFORD[15]
STAMFORD FROM FREEMAN’S CLOSE[17]
BOURNE ABBEY CHURCH[24]
THE STATION HOUSE, BOURNE[26]
SEMPRINGHAM[36]
THE WITHAM, BOSTON[45]
THE ANGEL INN, GRANTHAM[56]
GRANTHAM CHURCH[61]
WITHAM-SIDE, BOSTON[66]
HOUGH-ON-THE-HILL[72]
NORTH TRANSEPT, ST. DENIS’S CHURCH, SLEAFORD[78]
HECKINGTON CHURCH[81]
GREAT HALE[84]
HELPRINGHAM[86]
SOUTH KYME[88]
SOUTH KYME CHURCH[89]
NEWPORT ARCH, LINCOLN[92]
GATEWAY OF LINCOLN CASTLE[94]
THE ROOD TOWER AND SOUTH TRANSEPT, LINCOLN[100]
POTTERGATE, LINCOLN[110]
ST. MARY’S GUILD, LINCOLN[118]
THE POTTERGATE ARCH, LINCOLN[121]
THE JEW’S HOUSE, LINCOLN[123]
REMAINS OF THE WHITEFRIARS’ PRIORY, LINCOLN[124]
ST. MARY’S GUILD AND ST. PETER’S AT GOWTS, LINCOLN[125]
ST. BENEDICT’S CHURCH, LINCOLN[127]
ST. MARY-LE-WIGFORD, LINCOLN[128]
THE STONEBOW, LINCOLN[130]
OLD INLAND REVENUE OFFICE, LINCOLN[132]
JAMES STREET, LINCOLN[133]
THORNGATE, LINCOLN[135]
LINCOLN FROM THE WITHAM[138]
STOW CHURCH[142]
BRANT BROUGHTON[152]
THE ERMINE STREET AT TEMPLE BRUER[154]
TEMPLE BRUER TOWER[158]
NAVENBY[163]
WYKEHAM CHAPEL, NEAR SPALDING[180]
THE AVON AT BARTON-ON-HUMBER[189]
ST. PETER’S, BARTON-ON-HUMBER[190]
ST. MARY’S, BARTON-ON-HUMBER[192]
NORTH SIDE, OLD HALL, GAINSBOROUGH[202]
SOUTH SIDE, OLD HALL, GAINSBOROUGH[203]
GAINSBOROUGH CHURCH[205]
GREAT GOXHILL PRIORY[218]
THORNTON ABBEY GATEWAY[220]
REMAINS OF CHAPTER HOUSE, THORNTON ABBEY[221]
THE WELLAND, NEAR FULNEY, SPALDING[237]
THORNTON ABBEY GATEWAY[238]
BRIDGE STREET, LOUTH[241]
HUBBARD’S MILL, LOUTH[243]
THE LUD AT LOUTH[246]
ANCIENT SAXON ORNAMENT FOUND IN 1826 IN CLEANING OUT THE WITHAM, NEAR THE VILLAGE OF FISKERTON, FOUR MILES EAST OF LINCOLN. DRAWN BY MRS. RAWNSLEY[254]
CLEE CHURCH[266]
WESTGATE, LOUTH[275]
MANBY[279]
MABLETHORPE CHURCH[292]
SOUTHEND, BOSTON[297]
MARKBY CHURCH[306]
ADDLETHORPE AND INGOLDMELLS[308]
THE ROMAN BANK AT WINTHORPE[311]
BRIDGE OVER THE HOLLOW-GATE[330]
HALTON CHURCH[331]
SOMERSBY CHURCH[341]
TENNYSON’S HOME, SOMERSBY[351]
LITTLE STEEPING[357]
SIBSEY[362]
CONINGSBY[369]
TATTERSHALL AND CONINGSBY[370]
TATTERSHALL CHURCH[371]
THE LION GATE AT SCRIVELSBY[373]
TATTERSHALL CHURCH AND THE BAIN[381]
TATTERSHALL CHURCH AND CASTLE[386]
TATTERSHALL CHURCH WINDOWS[388]
SCRIVELSBY STOCKS[389]
KIRKSTEAD CHAPEL[391]
REMAINS OF KIRKSTEAD ABBEY CHURCH[396]
KIRKSTEAD CHAPEL, WEST END[398]
DARLOW’S YARD, SLEAFORD[403]
LEAKE CHURCH[415]
LEVERTON WINDMILL[417]
FRIESTON PRIORY CHURCH[418]
BOSTON CHURCH FROM THE N.E.[421]
BOSTON STUMP[424]
CUSTOM HOUSE QUAY, BOSTON[427]
SOUTH SQUARE, BOSTON[429]
SPAIN LANE, BOSTON[431]
THE HAVEN, BOSTON[436]
THE GUILDHALL, BOSTON[437]
HUSSEY’S TOWER, BOSTON[439]
THE WELLAND AT COWBIT ROAD, SPALDING[442]
THE WELLAND AT HIGH STREET, SPALDING[443]
AYSCOUGH FEE HALL GARDENS, SPALDING[445]
SPALDING CHURCH FROM THE S.E.[447]
N. SIDE, SPALDING CHURCH[449]
PINCHBECK[450]
SURFLEET[453]
SURFLEET WINDMILL[454]
THE WELLAND AT MARSH ROAD, SPALDING[458]
ALGARKIRK[460]
AT FULNEY[462]
WHAPLODE CHURCH[467]
FLEET CHURCH[469]
GEDNEY CHURCH[471]
LONG SUTTON CHURCH[473]
GEDNEY, FROM FLEET[482]
COWBIT CHURCH[484]
CROYLAND ABBEY[488]
CROYLAND BRIDGE[490]
MAP[At end Volume]

HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS
IN LINCOLNSHIRE

CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTORY

In dealing with a county which measures seventy-five miles by forty-five, it will be best to assume that the tourist has either some form of “cycle” or, better still, a motor car. The railway helps one less in this than in most counties, as it naturally runs on the flat and unpicturesque portions, and also skirts the boundaries, and seldom attempts to pierce into the heart of the Wolds. Probably it would not be much good to the tourist if it did, as he would have to spend much of his time in tunnels which always come where there should be most to see, as on the Louth and Lincoln line between Withcal and South Willingham. As it is, the only bit of railway by which a person could gather that Lincolnshire was anything but an ugly county is that between Lincoln and Grantham.

But that it is a county with a great deal of beauty will be, I am sure, admitted by those who follow up the routes described in the following pages. They will find that it is a county famous for wide views, for wonderful sunsets, for hills and picturesque hollows; and full, too, of the human interest which clings round old buildings, and the uplifting pleasure which its many splendid specimens of architecture have power to bestow.