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Three Kings
Threekingham is an unusual name, and an incorrect etymology has long been attached to it, as is not uncommon with place names that are unusual – especially when those names so obviously seem to suggest something concrete. Three kings, for example.
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Twyford Wood (RAF North Witham)
RAF North Witham was established in 1942, and closed in 1960. It encroached upon what had been Twyford Forest, and after the closure of the base the Forestry commission took it back over and planted thousands of trees. This has created a beautiful, unusual composite: increasingly mature woodland grows thickly around increasingly crumbling and buckling…
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The Leaning Tower of Surfleet
The tower of St Lawrence’s Church, Surfleet leans towards the main road through the village, which straddles the River Glen.
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The Origins of the Wild Man of Stainfield?
In All Saints’ Church, Bigby, you can see a sixteenth-century alabaster Twywhitt family tomb, depicting a supplicant wild man of the woods, or wodewose. He is attached to a Tyrwhitt family legend…
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The Sebastopol Inn
A local legend has it that a soldier returned from the Crimean War (1853-6), got drunk at the pub, and drowned in a dyke as he made his way home.
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The Leaning Tower of Dry Doddington
Our research hasn’t discovered many extant folk tales in this part of the county, as you might have noticed from the map. However, the pretty hilltop village of Dry Doddington has the makings of one.
Lincolnshire Folk Tales Project 