HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS IN LINCOLNSHIRE
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_Highways and Byways_
IN
_Lincolnshire_
BY
WILLINGHAM FRANKLIN RAWNSLEY
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
FREDERICK L. GRIGGS
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN’S STREET, LONDON
1914
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PREFACE
All writers make use of the labours of their predecessors. This is
inevitable, and a custom as old as time. As Mr. Rudyard Kipling sings:—
“When ’Omer smote ’is bloomin’ lyre
’E’d ’eard men sing by land and sea,
And what ’e thought ’e might require
’E went and took, the same as me.”
In writing this book I have made use of all the sources that I could lay
under contribution, and especially I have relied for help on “Murray’s
Handbook,” edited by the Rev. G. E. Jeans, and the Journals of the
associated Architectural Societies. I have recorded in the course of
the volume my thanks to a few kind helpers, and to these I must add the
name of Mr. A. R. Corns of the Lincoln Library, for his kindness in
allowing me the use of many books on various subjects, and on several
occasions, which have been of the utmost service to me. My best thanks,
also, are due to my cousin, Mr. Preston Rawnsley, for his chapter on the
Foxhounds of Lincolnshire. That the book owes much to the pencil of Mr.
Griggs is obvious; his illustrations need no praise of mine but speak for
themselves. The drawing given on p. 254 is by Mrs. Rawnsley.
I have perhaps taken the title “Highways and Byways” more literally
than has usually been done by writers in this interesting series, and
in endeavouring to describe the county and its ways I have followed the
course of all the main roads radiating from each large town, noticing
most of the places through or near which they pass, and also pointing
out some of the more picturesque byways, and describing the lie of the
country. But I have all along supposed the tourist to be travelling by
motor, and have accordingly said very little about Footpaths. This in
a mountainous country would be entirely wrong, but Lincolnshire as a
whole is not a pedestrian’s county. It is, however, a land of constantly
occurring magnificent views, a land of hill as well as plain, and, as I
hope the book will show, beyond all others a county teeming with splendid
churches. I may add that, thanks to that modern devourer of time and
space—the ubiquitous motor car—I have been able personally to visit
almost everything I have described, a thing which in so large a county
would, without such mercurial aid, have involved a much longer time for
the doing. Even so, no one can be more conscious than I am that the book
falls far short of what, with such a theme, was possible.
W. F. R.
CONTENTS
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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTORY 1