Lincolnshire Gate
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Lincolnshire Gate is the name given to a corner in the road between Holywell
Holywell, Lincolnshire
Holywell is a tiny settlement in the a civil parish of Careby Aunby and Holywell, in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies north from Stamford and south-west from Bourne....

 and Pickworth
Pickworth, Rutland
Pickworth is a civil parish and small hamlet in the county of Rutland in a region characterised by Rutland County Council as the clay woodlands of the Rutland Plateau ....

 to the south-west of Castle Bytham
Castle Bytham
Castle Bytham is a picturesque village and Civil Parish of around 300 houses in South Kesteven in south Lincolnshire.At one time the village was an important commercial centre for the surrounding agricultural communities, but it is now largely a dormitory, although a number of farming families...

. It describes the point where this tiny country road crosses the county border between Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...

 and Rutland
Rutland
Rutland is a landlocked county in central England, bounded on the west and north by Leicestershire, northeast by Lincolnshire and southeast by Peterborough and Northamptonshire....

, to pass between Newell Wood and Howitts Gorse. On either side are the workings of small quarries, worked from the Middle Ages till the early 20th century for building and road stone for nearby use.

It is the location of the small nature reserve, Robert's Field.

There are no human settlements at Lincolnshire Gate.
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