< Previous30 LINCOLNSHIRETODAYCAISTORYou may have seen the town on TVwhen Sarah Beeny showcased the workthat’s been put into the Arts and HeritageCentre, and that’s certainly well worth avisit. In addition throughout the yearthere are a host of special events whichseem to involve virtually everyone in thetown in some capacity. Add to that theattractive surroundings of the MarketPlace and you’ve got a town that’squintessentially Lincolnshire in payingtribute to the past while looking forwardto the future.One great example of the whole ofCaistor working together for thecommunity comes from its recent successin the Britain in Bloom awards. Caistor inBloom only began in 2009 but they’vealready been awarded the Silver Giltaward, alongside many larger towns withlonger-established groups.When presenting the award, the judgessaid, “As first-time UK finalists, the Bloomgroup has made great strides inimproving the overall environment,harnessing every section of thecommunity, in a wonderful effort. No onecould be in any doubt of thecommitment of this Bloom community.With sustained effort, Caistor will be nostranger to the UK Finals in the yearsahead.”There are plenty more opportunities forpeople to join in over the course of 2014.One of the most popular events takesplace every summer where the annualstreet party takes on a different theme.Last year’s seventies-themed event wasgreat fun and this year a distinctlydifferent period (though, from today’sperspective, with equally bizarre outfits)is recreated as Caistor Goes... Medievalon Saturday 12th July – harking back tothe era in which the town first came intobeing. That weekend is a huge one forCaistor, in fact, as the following day is the10k run where athletes hit the streets andplenty of people come out to watch.If you can’t wait until July to get active,the Caistor Running Club, who have nowbeen in action for nearly three years, getout and about several times a week.Helping to found the Running Club werelocal company Systematic PrintManagement, who also sponsor the club’svests. In fact, Caistor is home to a numberof highly successful companies, and manylike Systematic do play a major role insupporting the town’s community activities– testament to the spirit that exists.Communitycounts in CaistorThe key to Caistor’s appeal is its community. It’s become one ofthe most attractive places in Lincolnshire to live and to visit, andthat’s doubtless thanks to the hard work that’s been put in byresidents and local businesses to create a fabulous environment.30-33:Layout 1 17/1/14 12:22 Page 1LINCOLNSHIRETODAY31T 01472 851091www.systematicprint.comAt the heart of the communityWinners of the ‘Heart of the Community’ Award at the Lincolnshire Business Awards 2013.If it’s printed, you can trust Systematic to supply it.Indeed, Systematic were named “Heart of the Community” ata recent awards ceremony, and as Chris Robey, MD ofSystematic, tells us, “That reflects how we’ve traded for over 35years, in trying to give that bit back to the community. We loveworking in Caistor, and living in Caistor. It’s a great communityand there’s a lot of people and a lot of organisations pullingtogether for the benefit of the area. It’s a place we’re reallyproud to be part of.“Caistor Running Club is a cause close to our heart. Originallyjust a few of us got together with the idea of setting up a cluband we’ve now got nearly a hundred members. It’s incrediblypopular. Last year we sponsored the 10k run and we’ve alsoorganised beginners’ events. It’s a big part of what we do.“We’re proud to promote Caistor. We’re very lucky to haveother community-minded business alongside us in Sealord andCherry Valley which helps the town to thrive. We always look toemploy locally when we can and we always look to support any33 Caistor in Bloomonly began in 2009 but they’ve alreadybeen awarded the Silver Gilt award,alongside many larger towns withlonger-established groups30-33:Layout 1 17/1/14 12:22 Page 232 LINCOLNSHIRETODAYLoopy Lou’s FloristBespoke floral designs for all occasions, along with a range of unique giftsThe gift of flowers hand delivered in a stunning design to suit all occasionsValentine bouquets available to pre order now Charges apply for deliveries over 1 mile01472456073-loopylous@live.com-facebook.com/alhflowers-11southstreetCaistorLN76UBNOW OPENSKINluxurious beauty therapiesOur treatment menu has beencarefully created to provideluxurious relaxation mixed withthe most effective treatmenttechnologies.Our results driven treatmentscan be enjoyed as a specialtreat or as a course for longerlasting effects.Get 10% off your next visit with this advert24 Market Place, Caistor LN7 6TU www.skincouture.org.uk 01472 853063Treatments we offer include:HD BrowsSt Tropez TanningBespoke FacialsTreatment PackagesPrivate Hire Partiesfacebook.com/skincouturebeautyAre you struggling to look after an elderly loved one?Greenacres Care Home in Caistor offers the following:• Respite care• Holiday• Need a break• Illness & recuperationDAY CARE FROM £25.00 PER DAYWe may be able to provide transport (subject to conditions)• All meals provided • Bath if required • Activities & Entertainment• Long or short term care• Single rooms • Fully trained caring staffTELEPHONE: 01472 85198917 - 19 Grimsby Road, Caistor LN7 6QYLunch Time Meals• Caistor only• 2 Course meal delivered toyour door £5 per dayweekly menu availableValentine, Birthday, Wedding,Prom, Anniversary or even aCorporate Event.We cater for all occasionsCompetitive prices and delivery available.Come and see what we have to offer.Foil or Latex – ArrangementsTo order call:01472 851201www.caistorpostoffice.co.ukCaistor Post Office25 Market PlaceCaistor LN7 6TUSTIMULATING, FUN ENVIRONMENT FOR DEVELOPING YOUR CHILDRENS SKILLSOUT OF SCHOOL PLACES AVAILABLE IN ALL SCHOOL HOLIDAYSRECOGNISED AS AN OUTSTANDING SETTING BY OFSTEDLIMITED PLACES AVAILABLE AT KINDERGARTENHelp us to celebrate our30thAnniversaryonSunday 8th JuneEveryone welcomePrincipal, Angela Lawrence Cert. Ed.,ADAES, M. Ed. Tel 01472 851630 whitegatehouse@gmail.com www.whitegatehouse.co.ukThe Paper Shop- Newspapers - Tobacco - Confectionery - Greeting Cards We run a Rural & Local Newspaper delivery serviceavailable to Caistor and all surrounding villages10 Market Place, Caistor, LN7 6TW T: 01472 851333Caistor Yarborough Academy01472 851 383 caistoryarboroughacademy.org.uk“ I made exactly the right choice for my son – I can’t praise CYA highly enough! ” Year 7 ParentPlaces available. Contact us to book an appointment30-33:Layout 1 17/1/14 12:22 Page 3LINCOLNSHIRETODAY33CAISTORcommunity activities that we become aware of.”As seen on TV, the Caistor Arts and Heritage Centre is the bestexample of Caistor’s community spirit. The Centre has a team ofvolunteers who work in all areas including the library, servingcakes and speciality coffees, organising art exhibitions, music andheritage events and generally helping out in front and behind ofthe scenes. The Centre also welcomes people from the area to addvalue by bringing their specific skills.This runs alongside the various exhibitions and events that areheld at the centre at 28 Plough Hill, plus the permanent exhibitiontracing the history of the town from 8000BC to the present day.This month you can see the Forgotten Places exhibition of thework of Tanya Kennedy, who has been inspired by the old CaistorAsylum. That runs until 23rd February, when it will be followed on27th February by a showing of the work of David Alcock, who willbe at the Centre on Saturday 1st March to talk about histechniques and inspiration.Other organisations also contribute to the community spirit inCaistor. Schools such as Caistor Yarborough Academy andLincolnshire Montessori reach the highest standards and pupils andteachers alike make a major contribution to the area. LincolnshireMontessori, for example, won the Lincolnshire Young EnvironmentalAward for their Eco-Friendlies club which helps encourage kids tosave energy and make small differences to their environment.Caistor also benefits from a host of independent retailers and agrowing number of fantastic dining establishments, many ofwhom also get completely immersed in their community andmake a vital contribution to Caistor life. It’s the community spiritwhich is apparent even if you’re making a flying visit to the town– and ensures it’s one of the most attractive places in Lincolnshire. 30-33:Layout 1 17/1/14 12:22 Page 4POND ATPILLAR WOOD34 LINCOLNSHIRETODAYLINCOLNSHIRE WALKSSCULPTURE INBOURNE WOODAPPROACHING SCOTTLETHORPEWe start in Bourne Wood a surviving remnant of the once extensive Kesteven Forest thatprobably first developed following the last glaciation some 10,000 years ago. Definite recordsof it go back to the 11th century around the time of the “Conquest”. Much in evidence too iscoppicing, an historic woodland management practice, which here supported a thrivingfurniture industry in Bourne before the first world war. The woods are a wildlife haven tooand at quiet times there’s a chance of spotting both fallow and muntjac deer. Bourne Woodcovers some 500 acres with forestry roads, footpaths and cycleways allowing furtherexploration.Early in the walk we pass the hamlet of “Auster”, which really means the “Eastern”settlement – presumably in relation to Scottlethorpe. There are large tracts of ancientwoodland here too and deer are a common site.As we approach Scottlethorpe watch out for a cutting on the left where once ran “LordWilloughby’s Railway”. The brainchild of Lord Willoughby (Earl of Ancaster) of GrimsthorpeCastle, it opened in 1855 linking the castle estate, from a little station at Copy Lawn Farm inEdenham, with the GNR main line at Little Bytham. It acted too a goods line for theGrimsthorpe estate but was always unprofitable and closed in 1873.In 1086 Scottlethorpe was a large enough settlement to be recorded in the DomesdayBook with some 16 bovates of land (about 320 acres) able to be cultivated. HoweverWilliam the Conqueror’s commissioners reported that much of it was “waste” and valued it“at the most ten shillings” compared with one hundred shillings before 1066, so maybeScottlethorpe’s decline had already begun. It is known that there was a 12th centurychapel but all that remains of it now is a Norman arch re-erected in Edenham church in1967. Today Scottlethorpe’s most striking building (if a little incongruous in its ruralsetting) is Elm Terrace, a row of late 19th century estate cottages.Hard by St Michael’s church in Edenham is the 17th century vicarage where, it is said,that as a visitor Charles Kingsley wrote his novel “Hereward the Wake”. The church itselfis full of interest and stands on a raised man-made plateau, within which Roman remainshave been found, and overshadowed by enormous cypress trees. As Arthur Meecomments, it has “a contribution from every century since Saxon times”. There are alsomany Bertie/Willoughby family (the Earls of Ancaster from of nearby GrimsthorpeEXPLORINGON FOOTBOURNE WOODS, SCOTTLETHORPE & EDENHAMCombining open countryside, quiet lanes and ancientwoodland this month’s walk provides plenty of interest andvariety.Lincolnshire34-35:Layout 1 17/1/14 11:39 Page 1LINCOLNSHIRE WALKSSCOTTLETHORPEFIVE BELLS EDENHAMEDENHAMCastle) monuments including some by the famous 18th centurysculptors Joseph Nollekens and the Dutchman Peter Scheemacker. Onecuriosity is a carpet used in Westminster Abbey at the coronation ofGeorge VI. The Earl of Ancaster was hereditary Lord Chamberlain so nodoubt “pulled rank” to secure this particularly unusual souvenir.NOTES.The walk has one short arable section beyond Auster.THE WALK.From the toilet block leave the carpark and turn right alongthe path near a fenced seating area; continue out of the woods to a roadand then go right again. At the hilltop junction with the A6121 cross to thefootpath sign and stile opposite and keep forward by a wire fence along theleft-hand edge of a meadow to a stile at its far corner. Now continue ongrass with Auster Wood to your right, eventually following a fenced trackdown to a road. Look out for deer here too!Cross over and walk through Auster Lodge farm onto a fenced trackbehind the last barn. From a fieldgate and waymark bear half right into ashallow valley to a second waymarked gate and then bear left to a thirdgate. Continue half right by more woods (Rough Hills Plantation) and attheir end of go left over a footbridge.Bear half right over an arable field, crossing a track diagonally to meet ahedge on your left. Unofficially from the footbridge, you could walk across tothe end of a track seen ahead, thus joining the hedge sooner by bearingright below it. This way seems quite well trodden! Either way follow thehedge to a waymark at a sharp left-hand corner.From here turn only half left (the way is faintly marked) heading to the leftof two electricity poles on the skyline, then, at the top of the rise, andveering slightly right if necessary, aim for a fieldgate in the hedge ahead. Inthe paddock beyond follow the left-hand hedge over a stile and at the cornerturn right. Stay by the hedge to another stile with a farm road ahead.Follow this to a junction and 3-way footpath sign and turn right for nearlytwo miles through Scottlethorpe to the A151 at Edenham. Turn left throughthe village passing the church to reach the inn.Retrace your steps a few yards and cross into School Lane. Turn rightalong Church Lane and at the right-hand bend take the signed footpathahead through the handgate by a cattle grid. Walk over grass - or use theconcrete track - to reach a stile and footbridge, cross this and turn left alonga streamside path to a footpath sign pointing left over a farm bridge. Walkuphill, following the waymarks, and at the top go briefly left then right, toproceed downhill beside Pillar Wood. Enter Bourne Woods at a footbridgeand keep forward 300 yards to a forestry road - and a seat!Turn right for half a mile back to the carpark.by Hugh MarrowsFACTFILESTART: Bourne Woods carpark [GR080204]MAPS: OS Landranger 130 (Grantham) • Explorer 248DISTANCE: 7¼ miles • 11.5 kilometresREFRESHMENTS: Edenham, Five Bells • Inns and cafés in BourneLINCOLNSHIRETODAY3534-35:Layout 1 17/1/14 11:39 Page 236 LINCOLNSHIRETODAYFASHIONStay cool inthe coldStay cool inthe cold36-47:Layout 1 20/1/14 08:46 Page 1LINCOLNSHIRETODAY37FASHIONGANTThe new GANT Yale Co-op Shirtfor women is based on originaldesigns from the late sixties thatwere once carried by the famedbookstore. After seeing theirmen’s shirts being bought andworn by women, GANT decidedto make them a shirt of their ownwith a perfect fitIt’s always slightly baffling that we celebrate Valentine’s Dayin the month of colds and gloomy weather, but at least itgives us the excuse to cuddle up to our loved ones! Justbecause you’re piling on the layers it doesn’t mean you can’tbe stylish, as our fashion pages this month demonstrate.36-47:Layout 1 20/1/14 08:46 Page 212336-47:Layout 1 20/1/14 08:46 Page 3LINCOLNSHIRETODAY39FASHION451 - GANTGANT’s latest collection combines the classic American sportswear feeling of fitted and lightweight knits withsuper feminine pieces. It has a relaxed and casual look for daytime occasions and yet is a little bit dressed up forlong, cosy and late dinners.2 - MonariMonari’s design-orientated collection stands for elegant fashion with feminine silhouettes. The aim is a perfect fitand a love of detail.3 - NümphNümph’s pre-Spring collection aims to replicate the sensation you get when the sunrise hits your eyes!4 - Frank WalderFrank Walder specialises in smart separates and coordinating styles for every occasion. Frank Walder’s signaturestyle is found in bold, vivid prints and colours.5 - MasaiMasai’s collections are aimed at the adult and fashion-conscious woman, who prefers a relaxed and individualstyle. It boasts interesting and varied silhouettes together with high-quality fabrics.36-47:Layout 1 20/1/14 08:46 Page 4Next >