Little Bytham
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Little Bytham is a small village in South Kesteven
in south Lincolnshire
, situated between Corby Glen
and Stamford
on the B1176, which is straddled by brick railway viaduct
s of the East Coast Main Line
(Victorian and later) as the road passes through the village.
On the edge of the village to the east is the West Glen River
. Further east lie Witham on the Hill
and the large estate of Grimsthorpe Castle
. To the west is Castle Bytham
and, over the county boundary into Rutland
, Clipsham
. Careby
is just to the south of Little Bytham.
The village was formerly an important railway interchange.
The name Bytham is first recorded in 1067 (as a monastery that rapidly translated to Vaudey Abbey
), and comes from the Old English word bythme meaning Valley bottom, broad valley..
See the article on the Bytham River
for details of the ice age watercourse.
is a Grade I listed building. It is dedicated to two 6th-century French saints, St Medard and St Gildard
(or Medardus and Gildardus); the dedication is unique in the UK. Virtually unknown in Britain, St Medard is still well-known in France, with at least 25 towns or villages named after him (as St Médard or St Méard). Gildard, thought to be his brother, is less well known. The village fête
is held annually on or near St Medard's feast day
, 8 June.
The earliest parts of the building are some Anglo-Saxon
"long-and-short" stonework, visible externally at the southeast and southwest corners (quoins) of the nave. The church also has several Romanesque
details dating from the Norman
era, including a Priest's Door ("uncommonly ornate", according to Nikolaus Pevsner
) with a finely carved tympanum
; the empty circular niche in the tympanum is said to have held a relic
; the birds in roundels to either side are probably eagles, as one is legendarily supposed to have sheltered Medard from the rain http://saints.sqpn.com/saintm23.htm. Also Norman are the plain, undecorated arch into the tower, and the north door (late 12th century).
The south aisle and the upper parts of the tower and spire are 13th century work; the intersecting tracery of the east window of the south aisle shows that it is slightly later, dating from around 1300, as does the nearby piscina
. The chancel arch is probably also from the late 13th century, and the double piscina in the chancel
may be of a similar age. The Easter Sepulchre
in the chancel is in the slightly later (Decorated) style, but is a fairly crude example. A finely sculpted capital
depicting a Green Man
surrounded by oak leaves, similar to examples at nearby Kirkby Underwood
and Greatford
, also dates from c.1300. It is no longer in position, having been built into a wall, face inwards, and rediscovered during later restoration work.
The stone base of the pulpit
is dated 1590, and has a Latin inscription Orate et parate ("Pray and prepare"). Pevsner mistakenly gives this as Orate et Arate.
main line (now the East Coast Main Line
) and the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway
(closed 1959) crossed here. The GNR had powers to make a junction but never did so. Little Bytham railway station
on the GNR closed in 1959, and most of its buildings have since been demolished. There was no station here on the M&GNJR, the nearest being Castle Bytham railway station
. From 1857 to 1884, Little Bytham station was the junction for the Edenham & Little Bytham Railway branch line to Edenham
.
Remains of the M&GNJR and E&LBR are still visible, most obviously near the junction of the road from Little Bytham to Witham on the Hill
, where there is a large M&GN embankment with a road bridge across the B1176 52.7473°N 0.4944°W and a river bridge across the River Glen within a quarter of a mile 52.7478°N 0.4914°W, with an E&LBR cutting and road bridge a little further up the hill 52.7459°N 0.4825°W to the east.
The LNER Class A4 4468 Mallard
locomotive made its record-breaking run south through the village on 3 July 1938; it reached 126 mph (202.7 km/h), the fastest ever officially recorded for a steam locomotive, just south of the village towards Essendine
; a sign beside the track, erected in 1998 to mark the 60th anniversary of the event, marks the exact spot (between Aunby and Carlby
) at milepost 90¼, where The Mallard reached its highest speed.
In 1933 a trial return run between London and Leeds was made with modified A1 locomotive number 4472, Flying Scotsman on the return trip with 6 coaches weighing 208 tons it attained 100 mph (160 km/h) just outside Little Bytham in Lincolnshire for just over 600 yards (550 m).[28] There were earlier claims to this speed, notably by the Great Western locomotive 3440 City of Truro, but this 1933 run is generally considered to be the first reliably recorded instance. On a later trial run to Newcastle-upon-Tyne and back in 1935, A3 number 2750 Papyrus reached 108 miles per hour (174 km/h) hauling 217 tons at the same spot, maintaining a speed above 100 mph (160 km/h) for 12.5 consecutive miles (20.1 km), the world record for a non-streamlined locomotive.
A brickworks north of the village, established in 1850 and active into the early 20th century, made small, high-fired paving bricks, called "Adamantine
Clinkers" (because of their hardness), for paving stables and other floors. The works was important enough to be mentioned in the Lincolnshire article in the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica. They proudly boasted of winning Gold and Silver medals, and of supplying "His Majesty the King and other members of the Royal Family; also to the principal Nobility of this and Foreign Countries." http://www.archive.org/stream/academyarchitect31londuoft/academyarchitect31londuoft_djvu.txt The works are now demolished and houses have been built on the site.
Its former clay workings, an uneven area now overgrown with woodland, has been developed as The Spinney, a nature reserve, picnic site and children's adventure playground, thanks to a large grant from the Millennium Commission
. A Heritage Orchard, with historic, mainly local, cultivars of apples, pears, plums, cherries and gages
, has been planted at the site and a small "Sensory Garden" is also being developed.
trials nearby threatened its organic status between 2000–2002).
There is no longer a Post Office, but there is still a telephone box (though it has been earmarked for closure), a village shop (formerly C.R. Bee) and a Village Hall which is used by a number of groups.
The former Mallard pub in the centre of the village (named after the record-breaking locomotive
) closed in 2002; it was previously called the Green Man
.
Two motor engineers and a stonemason have premises adjacent to the railway line south of the village. Opposite them is Rasell's Nursery.
Every year there is a Music Festival featuring local and national acts. It is held on the last weekend of August or the first weekend of September in the garden of the Willoughby Arms and should not be missed. Acts that have previously played include Oka Vanga, New Generation Superstars and the Dave Jackson Band.
the Willoughby Arms on Station Road, just over the civic parish border in Careby
. Named after the Willoughby de Eresby
family (whose family seat is Grimsthorpe Castle
). Once known as The Steam Plough, the pub was the terminus building of the Edenham and Little Bytham Railway.
Stanton's Pit http://www.lincstrust.org.uk/reserves/nr/reserve.php?mapref=103 is a former gravel pit operated as a wetland Nature Reserve
by the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust
.
South Kesteven
South Kesteven is a local government district in Lincolnshire, England, forming part of the traditional Kesteven division of the county. It covers Grantham, Stamford, Bourne and Market Deeping.-History:...
in south 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...
, situated between Corby Glen
Corby Glen
Corby Glen is a village in southwest Lincolnshire, England.-Geography:The village of Corby Glen is in South Kesteven District in Lincolnshire. It lies mainly to the north of the A151, a former toll road, and to the east of the West Glen River, near where the Glen flows through a small graben in...
and Stamford
Stamford, Lincolnshire
Stamford is a town and civil parish within the South Kesteven district of the county of Lincolnshire, England. It is approximately to the north of London, on the east side of the A1 road to York and Edinburgh and on the River Welland...
on the B1176, which is straddled by brick railway viaduct
Viaduct
A viaduct is a bridge composed of several small spans. The term viaduct is derived from the Latin via for road and ducere to lead something. However, the Ancient Romans did not use that term per se; it is a modern derivation from an analogy with aqueduct. Like the Roman aqueducts, many early...
s of the East Coast Main Line
East Coast Main Line
The East Coast Main Line is a long electrified high-speed railway link between London, Peterborough, Doncaster, Wakefield, Leeds, York, Darlington, Newcastle and Edinburgh...
(Victorian and later) as the road passes through the village.
On the edge of the village to the east is the West Glen River
River Glen, Lincolnshire
The River Glen is a river in Lincolnshire, England with a short stretch passing through Rutland near Essendine.The river's name appears to derive from a Brythonic Celtic language but there is a strong early English connection.-Naming:...
. Further east lie Witham on the Hill
Witham on the Hill
Witham on the Hill is a in the civil parish of the same name, in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England.-Geography:The village is between the and west tributaries of the River Glen, and despite its name, is not on the top of its 'hill', which reaches a peak one mile west towards...
and the large estate of Grimsthorpe Castle
Grimsthorpe Castle
Grimsthorpe Castle is a country house in Lincolnshire, England four miles north-west of Bourne on the A151. It lies within a 3,000 acre park of rolling pastures, lakes, and woodland landscaped by Capability Brown...
. To the west is 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...
and, over the county boundary into 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....
, Clipsham
Clipsham
Clipsham is a village in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England.The village is well-known for its limestone quarries. Clipsham stone, part of the Upper Lincolnshire Limestone Formation, can be found in many of Britain's most famous buildings including King's College Chapel , the...
. Careby
Careby Aunby and Holywell
Careby Aunby and Holywell is a civil parish in the district of South Kesteven, south-west Lincolnshire, in England. It stretches from the county border with Rutland in the west to the River West Glen in the east. The B1176 road from Corby Glen passes through Careby and on past Aunby toward...
is just to the south of Little Bytham.
The village was formerly an important railway interchange.
The name Bytham is first recorded in 1067 (as a monastery that rapidly translated to Vaudey Abbey
Vaudey Abbey
Vaudey Abbey was an English Cistercian abbey. It was founded in 1147 by William, Count of Aumale, Earl of York. Its site is within the Grimsthorpe Castle park, in Lincolnshire, 6 km northwest of Bourne on the A151, but there are no remains of the Abbey aside from earthworks.The Victoria County...
), and comes from the Old English word bythme meaning Valley bottom, broad valley..
See the article on the Bytham River
Bytham River
The Bytham River has been proposed as an ancient river in Pleistocene Great Britain that has been suggested to have run through the English Midlands until around 450,000 years ago...
for details of the ice age watercourse.
Church of St Medard and St Gildard
The churchSt Medardus and St Gildardus Church, Little Bytham
The church of St Medardus and St Gildardus in Little Bytham is a Grade I listed building. It is dedicated to two 6th-century French saints, St Medard and St Gildard ; the dedication is unique in the UK. Virtually unknown in Britain, St Medard is still well-known in France, with at least 25 towns...
is a Grade I listed building. It is dedicated to two 6th-century French saints, St Medard and St Gildard
Saint Gildard
Saint Gildard, also known as Saint Gildardus and Saint Godard, was the Bishop of Rouen from 488 to 525. He is venerated as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church, and the missal of the Sarum Rite refers to him as a confessor.-Life:...
(or Medardus and Gildardus); the dedication is unique in the UK. Virtually unknown in Britain, St Medard is still well-known in France, with at least 25 towns or villages named after him (as St Médard or St Méard). Gildard, thought to be his brother, is less well known. The village fête
Fête
Fête is a French word meaning festival, celebration or party, which has passed into English as a label that may be given to certain events.-Description:It is widely used in England and Australia in the context of a village fête,...
is held annually on or near St Medard's feast day
Calendar of saints
The calendar of saints is a traditional Christian method of organizing a liturgical year by associating each day with one or more saints and referring to the feast day of said saint...
, 8 June.
The earliest parts of the building are some Anglo-Saxon
Anglo-Saxon architecture
Anglo-Saxon architecture was a period in the history of architecture in England, and parts of Wales, from the mid-5th century until the Norman Conquest of 1066. Anglo-Saxon secular buildings in Britain were generally simple, constructed mainly using timber with thatch for roofing...
"long-and-short" stonework, visible externally at the southeast and southwest corners (quoins) of the nave. The church also has several Romanesque
Norman architecture
About|Romanesque architecture, primarily English|other buildings in Normandy|Architecture of Normandy.File:Durham Cathedral. Nave by James Valentine c.1890.jpg|thumb|200px|The nave of Durham Cathedral demonstrates the characteristic round arched style, though use of shallow pointed arches above the...
details dating from the Norman
Normans
The Normans were the people who gave their name to Normandy, a region in northern France. They were descended from Norse Viking conquerors of the territory and the native population of Frankish and Gallo-Roman stock...
era, including a Priest's Door ("uncommonly ornate", according to Nikolaus Pevsner
Nikolaus Pevsner
Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner, CBE, FBA was a German-born British scholar of history of art and, especially, of history of architecture...
) with a finely carved tympanum
Tympanum (architecture)
In architecture, a tympanum is the semi-circular or triangular decorative wall surface over an entrance, bounded by a lintel and arch. It often contains sculpture or other imagery or ornaments. Most architectural styles include this element....
; the empty circular niche in the tympanum is said to have held a relic
Relic
In religion, a relic is a part of the body of a saint or a venerated person, or else another type of ancient religious object, carefully preserved for purposes of veneration or as a tangible memorial...
; the birds in roundels to either side are probably eagles, as one is legendarily supposed to have sheltered Medard from the rain http://saints.sqpn.com/saintm23.htm. Also Norman are the plain, undecorated arch into the tower, and the north door (late 12th century).
Piscina
A piscina is a shallow basin placed near the altar of a church, used for washing the communion vessels. The sacrarium is the drain itself. Anglicans usually refer to the basin, calling it a piscina. Roman Catholics usually refer to the drain, and by extension, the basin, as the sacrarium...
. The chancel arch is probably also from the late 13th century, and the double piscina in the chancel
Chancel
In church architecture, the chancel is the space around the altar in the sanctuary at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building...
may be of a similar age. The Easter Sepulchre
Easter Sepulchre
An Easter Sepulchre is a feature of English church architecture .-Description:The Easter Sepulchre is an arched recess generally in the north wall of the chancel, in which from Good Friday to Easter day were deposited the crucifix and sacred elements in commemoration of Christ's entombment and...
in the chancel is in the slightly later (Decorated) style, but is a fairly crude example. A finely sculpted capital
Capital (architecture)
In architecture the capital forms the topmost member of a column . It mediates between the column and the load thrusting down upon it, broadening the area of the column's supporting surface...
depicting a Green Man
Green Man
A Green Man is a sculpture, drawing, or other representation of a face surrounded by or made from leaves. Branches or vines may sprout from the nose, mouth, nostrils or other parts of the face and these shoots may bear flowers or fruit...
surrounded by oak leaves, similar to examples at nearby Kirkby Underwood
Kirkby Underwood
Kirkby Underwood is a village of 80 households located around four miles north of Bourne in southern Lincolnshire, in the district of South Kesteven....
and Greatford
Greatford
Greatford is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies west of the A15, north-east of Stamford, and south of Bourne...
, also dates from c.1300. It is no longer in position, having been built into a wall, face inwards, and rediscovered during later restoration work.
The stone base of the pulpit
Pulpit
Pulpit is a speakers' stand in a church. In many Christian churches, there are two speakers' stands at the front of the church. Typically, the one on the left is called the pulpit...
is dated 1590, and has a Latin inscription Orate et parate ("Pray and prepare"). Pevsner mistakenly gives this as Orate et Arate.
Railway and other industrial history
The Great Northern RailwayGreat Northern Railway (Great Britain)
The Great Northern Railway was a British railway company established by the Great Northern Railway Act of 1846. On 1 January 1923 the company lost its identity as a constituent of the newly formed London and North Eastern Railway....
main line (now the East Coast Main Line
East Coast Main Line
The East Coast Main Line is a long electrified high-speed railway link between London, Peterborough, Doncaster, Wakefield, Leeds, York, Darlington, Newcastle and Edinburgh...
) and the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway
Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway
The Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway, was a joint railway owned by the Midland Railway and the Great Northern Railway in eastern England, affectionately known as the 'Muddle and Get Nowhere' to generations of passengers, enthusiasts, and other users.The main line ran from Peterborough to...
(closed 1959) crossed here. The GNR had powers to make a junction but never did so. Little Bytham railway station
Little Bytham railway station
Little Bytham railway station was a station in Little Bytham, Lincolnshire on the Great Northern Railway main line. It closed in 1959. The Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway crossed just north of the station. The GNR were given powers to build a junction but never did so. The nearest station...
on the GNR closed in 1959, and most of its buildings have since been demolished. There was no station here on the M&GNJR, the nearest being Castle Bytham railway station
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...
. From 1857 to 1884, Little Bytham station was the junction for the Edenham & Little Bytham Railway branch line to Edenham
Edenham railway station
Edenham railway station was a station in Edenham, Lincolnshire. It was the terminus of a four mile branch line from the Great Northern Railway at Little Bytham. The line was built and operated by the Edenham & Little Bytham Railway . It was opened on 8 December 1857. The station closed to...
.
Remains of the M&GNJR and E&LBR are still visible, most obviously near the junction of the road from Little Bytham to Witham on the Hill
Witham on the Hill
Witham on the Hill is a in the civil parish of the same name, in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England.-Geography:The village is between the and west tributaries of the River Glen, and despite its name, is not on the top of its 'hill', which reaches a peak one mile west towards...
, where there is a large M&GN embankment with a road bridge across the B1176 52.7473°N 0.4944°W and a river bridge across the River Glen within a quarter of a mile 52.7478°N 0.4914°W, with an E&LBR cutting and road bridge a little further up the hill 52.7459°N 0.4825°W to the east.
The LNER Class A4 4468 Mallard
LNER Class A4 4468 Mallard
Number 4468 Mallard is a London and North Eastern Railway Class A4 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotive built at Doncaster, England in 1938. While in other respects a relatively typical member of its class, it is historically significant for being the holder of the official world speed record for steam...
locomotive made its record-breaking run south through the village on 3 July 1938; it reached 126 mph (202.7 km/h), the fastest ever officially recorded for a steam locomotive, just south of the village towards Essendine
Essendine
Essendine is a village at the eastern end of the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England. It lies on the West Glen, close by the earthworks of a small castle.-Geology:...
; a sign beside the track, erected in 1998 to mark the 60th anniversary of the event, marks the exact spot (between Aunby and Carlby
Carlby
Carlby is a small village/parish in the district of South Kesteven in Lincolnshire, England.It is located four miles south of Bourne on the A6121 near the Lincolnshire/Rutland boundary, which is partly the River West Glen....
) at milepost 90¼, where The Mallard reached its highest speed.
In 1933 a trial return run between London and Leeds was made with modified A1 locomotive number 4472, Flying Scotsman on the return trip with 6 coaches weighing 208 tons it attained 100 mph (160 km/h) just outside Little Bytham in Lincolnshire for just over 600 yards (550 m).[28] There were earlier claims to this speed, notably by the Great Western locomotive 3440 City of Truro, but this 1933 run is generally considered to be the first reliably recorded instance. On a later trial run to Newcastle-upon-Tyne and back in 1935, A3 number 2750 Papyrus reached 108 miles per hour (174 km/h) hauling 217 tons at the same spot, maintaining a speed above 100 mph (160 km/h) for 12.5 consecutive miles (20.1 km), the world record for a non-streamlined locomotive.
A brickworks north of the village, established in 1850 and active into the early 20th century, made small, high-fired paving bricks, called "Adamantine
Adamant
Adamant and similar words are used to refer to any especially hard substance, whether composed of diamond, some other gemstone, or some type of metal. Both adamant and diamond derive from the Greek word αδαμας , meaning "untameable"...
Clinkers" (because of their hardness), for paving stables and other floors. The works was important enough to be mentioned in the Lincolnshire article in the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica. They proudly boasted of winning Gold and Silver medals, and of supplying "His Majesty the King and other members of the Royal Family; also to the principal Nobility of this and Foreign Countries." http://www.archive.org/stream/academyarchitect31londuoft/academyarchitect31londuoft_djvu.txt The works are now demolished and houses have been built on the site.
Its former clay workings, an uneven area now overgrown with woodland, has been developed as The Spinney, a nature reserve, picnic site and children's adventure playground, thanks to a large grant from the Millennium Commission
Millennium Commission
The Millennium Commission in the United Kingdom was set up to aid communities at the end of the 2nd millennium and the start of the 3rd millennium. It used funding raised through the UK National Lottery....
. A Heritage Orchard, with historic, mainly local, cultivars of apples, pears, plums, cherries and gages
Greengage
The greengages, also known as the Reine Claudes, are the edible drupaceous fruits of a cultivar group of the common European plum. The first true greengage was bred in Moissac, France, from a green-fruited wild plum originally found in Asia Minor; the original greengage cultivar nowadays survives...
, has been planted at the site and a small "Sensory Garden" is also being developed.
Businesses, attractions and amenities
Mixed arable farming is still carried out around the village; one farm (A Turner & Sons, The Grange) supplies organic produce (though GMGenetic engineering
Genetic engineering, also called genetic modification, is the direct human manipulation of an organism's genome using modern DNA technology. It involves the introduction of foreign DNA or synthetic genes into the organism of interest...
trials nearby threatened its organic status between 2000–2002).
There is no longer a Post Office, but there is still a telephone box (though it has been earmarked for closure), a village shop (formerly C.R. Bee) and a Village Hall which is used by a number of groups.
The former Mallard pub in the centre of the village (named after the record-breaking locomotive
LNER Class A4 4468 Mallard
Number 4468 Mallard is a London and North Eastern Railway Class A4 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotive built at Doncaster, England in 1938. While in other respects a relatively typical member of its class, it is historically significant for being the holder of the official world speed record for steam...
) closed in 2002; it was previously called the Green Man
Green Man
A Green Man is a sculpture, drawing, or other representation of a face surrounded by or made from leaves. Branches or vines may sprout from the nose, mouth, nostrils or other parts of the face and these shoots may bear flowers or fruit...
.
Two motor engineers and a stonemason have premises adjacent to the railway line south of the village. Opposite them is Rasell's Nursery.
Every year there is a Music Festival featuring local and national acts. It is held on the last weekend of August or the first weekend of September in the garden of the Willoughby Arms and should not be missed. Acts that have previously played include Oka Vanga, New Generation Superstars and the Dave Jackson Band.
Nearby in Careby
The pubPublic house
A public house, informally known as a pub, is a drinking establishment fundamental to the culture of Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. There are approximately 53,500 public houses in the United Kingdom. This number has been declining every year, so that nearly half of the smaller...
the Willoughby Arms on Station Road, just over the civic parish border in Careby
Careby
Careby is the principle village in the a civil parish of Careby Aunby and Holywell in the South Kesteven district of South Kesteven, Lincolnshire, England. The River West Glen flows through the parish, near Careby, forming part of the parish boundary....
. Named after the Willoughby de Eresby
Baron Willoughby de Eresby
Baron Willoughby de Eresby is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created by writ in 1313 for Robert de Willoughby of Eresby Manor, near Spilsby, Lincolnshire. The fourteenth Baron was created Earl of Lindsey in 1626. His great-grandson, the fourth Earl and seventeenth Baron, was created...
family (whose family seat is Grimsthorpe Castle
Grimsthorpe Castle
Grimsthorpe Castle is a country house in Lincolnshire, England four miles north-west of Bourne on the A151. It lies within a 3,000 acre park of rolling pastures, lakes, and woodland landscaped by Capability Brown...
). Once known as The Steam Plough, the pub was the terminus building of the Edenham and Little Bytham Railway.
Stanton's Pit http://www.lincstrust.org.uk/reserves/nr/reserve.php?mapref=103 is a former gravel pit operated as a wetland Nature Reserve
Nature reserve
A nature reserve is a protected area of importance for wildlife, flora, fauna or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed for conservation and to provide special opportunities for study or research...
by the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust
Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust
The Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust is a wildlife trust covering the whole ceremonial county of Lincolnshire England...
.
External links
- thebythams Village website (with Castle Bytham)
- http://www.bythamsmusic.co.uk Website for the Bythams Music Festivals
- Local history website
- Willoughby Arms
- Free Play Network newsletter with article about The Spinney
- The Spinney website