This map shows sites associated with folk tales in Lincolnshire. Click on the marked locations for further information about each site and the tale associated with it. Click the ‘frame’ icon in the top right corner to open the map in a new tab.

Individual entries written by Rory Waterman unless noted otherwise. Photos by Rory Waterman unless noted otherwise. All entries © their respective authors. Map and entries edited by Anna Milon and Rory Waterman. You are welcome to use this map as you see fit. However, if you quote from it in published material, you must provide citation: Rory Waterman et al, Lincolnshire Folk Tales Project website, http://www.lincolnshirefolktalesproject.com (2024-5).

Get in touch if you have something you’d like to add – you will be fully credited if we use it! We also encourage you to comment on the blog posts.

In February 2024, we pre-populated the map with about ninety entries for some of our favourite Lincolnshire folk tales, and we have continued to add to them since. We will carry on adding and editing them, throughout the 18 months of the project – with your help! Please contact us if you think we have missed anything. You will be fully credited.

Please click around the map to explore locations associated with folk tales, brief information about those tales, some links and easily-available further reading suggestions, and details, where possible and relevant, about how the tales are remembered now, during the life of the project. To learn more about how we (necessarily loosely) define a folk tale, and why, see here.

The map is intentionally selective – we have focused on places connected to folk tales, as defined on this website, and have not included locations that have connections to other kinds of folklore unless they are also connected to a folk narrative.

Hopefully, if you are able to do so, you will get out and visit some of these locations. most are easy to visit, and wherever possible we have placed the markers on accessible land. For some tales, any of several locations might have been chosen, and we have picked one. Further written sources for information about Lincolnshire folk tales, and most works mentioned in the entries, are included in the Select Bibliography on this website.

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The ‘Lincolnshire Folk Tales: Origins, Legacies, Connections, Futures’ project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and hosted by the School of Arts and Humanities at Nottingham Trent University.