< Previous60 LINCOLNSHIRE TODAYCommunity is a word oft thrown around by towns and villages. It’s something that’s difficult to measure and keep track on, which is no doubt why everyone claims it. Yet nowhere in Lincolnshire is the proof of a community so strong than in Caistor. It’s become one of the most attractive places in Lincolnshire to live and to visit, and that’s doubtless thanks to the hard work that’s been put in by residents and local businesses to create a fabulous environment. The host of independent retailers and a growing number of fantastic dining establishments add to the appeal. Many CAISTORSmall town with a big heart Caistor is a town that puts community first, and as such it’s perhaps little wonder that there’s so much going on. 60-63.qxp_Layout 1 23/01/2019 10:09 Page 1LINCOLNSHIRE TODAY 61The Settlement is a child and dog friendly pub that offers excellent ‘pub grub’ between 12noon and 9pm every day except Sundays where Sunday lunches are available between 12noon and 5pm. Showing live sports from both Sky and BT, it’s a great place to enjoy a pint. Our newly refurbished restaurant offers something special for the discerning and serves on a Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening until 9pm.Find us at: 20 Market Place, Caistor, Lincolnshire, LN7 6TUwww.thesettlement.co.uk 01472 851771 info@thesettlement.co.uk have been based in the town for many years and a huge number of them are completely immersed in their community and make a vital contribution to Caistor life throughout the year. It’s the community spirit which 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. This wouldn’t be possible without the sheer amount of effort given by people within Caistor to better their area, typically on a voluntary not-for-profit basis. Caistor in Bloom is one such example, which often sees roads, streets and shop fronts festooned with bright and beautiful displays of flowers. Though Caistor in Bloom only started in 2009, they’ve already won national acclaim – and have even represented the entire East Midlands. There’s always a wide array of events taking place in Caistor as well, including the weekly Saturday market, which happens every week from 9am – 2pm. For those looking for a little more activity, there’s the Caistor running club, who meet most Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Sports and Social Club. An entire calendar of events is prepared for the year ahead, with too many things to name – such as the Caistor annual street party, Christmas parties – activity days and more. The Caistor Lions Club, fifty members strong, lights up the November sky every year with a spectacular firework display and themed bonfire night. More recently a Beer Festival has been added to the CAISTOR62 Á60-63.qxp_Layout 1 23/01/2019 10:09 Page 262 LINCOLNSHIRE TODAYCAISTORSKINCOUTUREluxurious beauty therapies/skincouturebeautyskincouturebeautySkin CoutureSkin Couture Beauty Salon, Market Place, Caistor LN7 6TW skincouturebeauty@outlook.com@01472 852063www.skincouturebeauty.co.ukSkin Couture Beauty Salon, Market Place, Caistor LN7 6TW skincouturebeauty@outlook.com@01472 852063www.skincouturebeauty.co.ukWe are boutique beauty salon on a mission to make you look & feel fabulous.Keep up to date with all our latest offers on treatments and productsroster of events and after two extraordinarily successful weekends will be back for the third year this June. These events, along with many others throughout the year, have raised thousands of pounds for local good causes. There are over sixty-five active organisations in Caistor, for all ages, from Choirs to tennis clubs, Civic Societies to Tai Chi groups. As well as these events, there is community spirit all year round, and it’s perhaps most obvious at the Caistor Arts and Heritage Centre at 28 Plough Hill. The Centre has a team of volunteers who work in all areas, organising art exhibitions, music and heritage events and generally helping out in front and behind of the scenes. The Centre also welcomes people from the area to add value by bringing their specific skills. This runs alongside the various exhibitions and events that are held at the centre at 28 Plough Hill, plus the permanent exhibition tracing the history of the town from 8,000BC to the present day. That’s not to say Caistor doesn’t accommodate the younger audience either, as they recently completed work on a skate park that has been made freely available to the public. Beyond that, a new outdoor gym has been opened to promote health and fitness, and this isn’t a simplistic thing with a few jungle gyms or pull-up bars. The outdoor gym has all-weather cross trainers, bicycles, and resistance machines, many of which you might expect to find in a traditional monthly subscription gym. 60-63.qxp_Layout 1 23/01/2019 10:09 Page 3LINCOLNSHIRE TODAY 63CAISTOROur main objective here at Greenacres is to provide a home in which you will feel settled, comfortable and happy.Greenacres is a small, friendly care home situated in the historic town of Caistor, surrounded by the stunning countryside of the Lincolnshire Wolds. Facilities include: • Short term respite care • Long term residential care • Individual diets catered for • 24 hour call system • Residents access to a GP • Highly trained nursing staff • Personalised care plan • Access to 24 hour care • And much more 17/19 Grimsby Road, Caistor, Lincs LN7 6QY Tel: 01472 851989 www.greenacrescarehome.org.uk These come in addition to the tennis courts already available in Caistor, though a new basketball court has also been made available to the public. Little things like this, although they can hardly even be called little, help to show just how much Caistor – and the people there – care for the community. It shows in the way people act as they walk down the streets, in the proud manner many of the residents speak of their town, of local businesses or even just of one another. And of course, with many housing developments undergoing in the area, it’s easy to point out the surge in people looking to make Caistor their new home, and not without good reason. Community remains a word towns throw about with little meaning, but Caistor is unwilling to accept that – proving that sometimes, community really can make a place special. PHOTO: SHAUN BETTANY – MG DRONE SHOOTS60-63.qxp_Layout 1 23/01/2019 10:09 Page 4Lincolnshire heritage exploredFollowing a public meeting in October 1791 and a survey by the famous canal engineer William Jessop, a Parliamentary Act authorising the construction of the Sleaford Navigation was passed in 1792. The thirteen miles long waterway linking Sleaford to the River Witham at Chapel Hill opened in May 1794 being the second major canal to open in Lincolnshire, the Louth Navigation having opened in 1770. The navigation’s course followed the “New” River Slea – though this had in fact existed to power several water mills since mediaeval times – which was straightened, widened and provided with seven new locks. It left the Witham at Chapel Hill, always a remote spot and once a part of Swineshead parish. The modern sluice there was built in 1964 to control the flow of water from the Witham into the Kyme Eau which formed the first few miles of the new waterway. The Eau was originally a tidal waterway terminating at Appletreeness some two and a half miles to the west of South Kyme village and we know that it existed by 1343 since in that year King Edward III was petitioned by Gilbert de Umfraville (Baron of Kyme) to charge tolls in return for his maintaining it. (This long history also accounts for the name surviving onto C21st OS maps.) Just before South Kyme is Bottom Lock, the first after leaving the Witham. (The other six are all between Anwick and Sleaford.) Its restoration was completed in 1986 by the Sleaford Navigation Trust and the lock-keepers house once stood on the island there. South Kyme itself is the only village beside the navigation. Just beyond South Kyme, the navigation has a noticeably wide, straight section where it utilises a short section of the Roman Car Dyke towards Ferry Bridge, also known as “Halfpenny Bridge”. This name comes either from the passenger charge made in the days when there was a ferry, and later a toll bridge, or the money given to local children to lie on boatloads of hay, flattening them sufficiently to This month we discover the history of the Sleaford Navigation; part of Lincolnshire’s C18th canal age legacy.64-65.qxp_Layout 1 23/01/2019 10:11 Page 1restored C18th Cogglesford Mill on the outskirts of Sleaford; this has probably been the site of a watermill since Saxon times. The adjacent rough grassland conceals the site of Old Sleaford, occupied long before the present town and an area rich in archaeological finds including evidence of a mint and an important settlement for the local Coritani tribe and subsequently the Romans. Their stony “coggled” (or cobbled) ford lay a little to the east of the present mill and was aligned with Mareham Lane, their road coming up from Bourne in the south. As we head into Sleaford we see the Old River Slea diverted over a sluice on the left. In Sleaford itself Moneys Yard was the terminus of the navigation and the mill dates from 1796. It stood on an “island” created by a loop cut from East Banks that curved round by wharves near Carre Street to re-join the navigation thus enabling boats to turn facing back towards the Witham. Remnants of this “cut” remain near East Banks and the Hub arts centre. LINCOLNSHIRE TODAY 65pass underneath. A little further on is Appletreeness – the “Headland near the Apple Tree” - not named on OS maps but the original Kyme Eau terminus. By the next lock (Cobblers Lock) we are almost eight miles from the Witham and here the Old River Slea rejoins the “New Slea” that had become the navigation. We next reach Haverholme and visible from the navigation bank are the ruins of the Victorian Haverholme Priory. This had supplanted the original Gilbertine priory established in 1139 and which had survived until the Dissolution of the monasteries in 1538. The house was the property the Earls of Winchelsea until they fell on hard times and sold up in 1920. Also at Haverholme we find another lock and the elegant Haverholme Bridge dating from 1893. It bears the arms of the Earl of Winchelsea since he funded most of the cost because the local authority would only pay for a mundane flat bridge. With a rise of nearly ten feet Haverholme lock was the highest lock out of the seven. Papermill Lock comes next and papermaking has been recorded here since the C17th with production supplying a printing works in Boston until the 1930’s. The origins of Holdingham Mill, a quarter of a mile further on, reach back to the Middle Ages, though the present mill building dates from the late C18th. Here look for the charming little octagonal tollbooth (now somewhat overgrown) that provided shelter for the Navigation Company’s toll collector. After Bonemeal Lock near the Sleaford by-pass we reach the final lock and mill at the picturesque, Two final relics of the Sleaford Navigation stand along Carre Street, the first in the shape of the archway to the original navigation wharf. Behind it is Navigation House built in 1838 as a weigh house and offices for toll collection. Over its doorway, now almost illegible, is the Navi-gation Company’s coat of arm designed by Sir Joseph Banks with the company motto, “bor-rowed” from Ovid, which reads “Leve Fit Quod Bene Furtor Onus”, that is “A Heavy Burden Correctly Carried Becomes Light”. The Sleaford Navigation closed in 1878 after operating for less than a century. The railway had arrived in 1857 and the navigations demise echoes the familiar story of the consequences of railway competition upon this and other canals. The Sleaford Navigation Society was formed in 1977 (it has been a Trust since 1997) and its volunteers have since then performed sterling work in clearing the waterway itself, clearing re-building and repairing locks with over half the navigation’s length now open to boaters. by Hugh Marrows64-65.qxp_Layout 1 23/01/2019 10:11 Page 266 LINCOLNSHIRE TODAYBRITISH HEART FOUNDATIONIt is estimated that over seven million people in the UK live with coronary heart disease, and to date it is the country’s biggest single killer. The British heart Foundation has made it their personal goal to fight against the disease, both in making people aware of the risks, funding and undertaking research to limit its effects and help prolong the lives of those who suffer with it. 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