Gedney Dyke
| Gedney Dyke | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
.jpg) House and mill tower in Gedney Dyke | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF411259 |
| Location: | 52°48’47"N, -0°5’33"E |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Spalding |
| Postcode: | PE12 |
| Dialling code: | 01406 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | South Holland |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
South Holland and The Deepings |
Gedney Dyke is a village in the parish of Gedney, in Holland, the south-eastern part of Lincolnshire. It is 40 miles south-east of the county town, the City of Lincoln, and 13 miles from each of Boston to the north-west and King's Lynn to the south-east.
Gedney Dyke is a mile north of the parish village, Gedney itself, and four miles from the south-west shore of the Wash. The village is centred where Roman Bank road runs into Main Street at the junction with Engine Dyke road. Roman Bank and Engine Dyke are part of the B1359 road which runs from Gedney Drove End, at the north-east, to Long Sutton to the south-east.
About the village
Within the village are detached and semi-detached houses, bungalows, a village farm, and a village hall. At the junction of Roman Bank and Engine Dyke are the remains of a tower mill, and at the junction of Memorial Lane with Main Street is a war memorial. South-west of the village, near the junction of Main Street and Lowgate, is The Chequers public house and restaurant.
Within Gedney Dyke are four Grade II listed structures:
- Seadyke Mill is a 68-foot high red brick seven-storey tower mill for cereals dating to 1836. The mill, which was part of a village farm complex, was working until 1842. Its four sails were removed in 1947.[1][2][3]
- 2 Mill Bank, a red brick, hipped roof, two-storey house on Mill Bank next to the windmill and built around 1820.[4]
- Peregrine's Rest at the south of the village; a red brick house dating to 1767.[5]
- Gedney Dyke War Memorial, for those who died in the First and Second World Wars, a 9-foot obelisk in Aberdeen granite designed by the local mason Charles Warrick.[6][7]
In a field at the northwest of Main Street was found mounds of a previous mediæval saltern, evidenced by "burnt earth, slag [and] shells".[8] A former post office with general store (built 1903) at the corner of Main Street and Engine Dyke was converted to a residential property in 2018.[9]
In 1872 White's Directory of Lincolnshire recorded a Free Methodist chapel at Gedney Dyke. Occupations and trades at the time included six farmers, one of whom was also a grazier, another a corn merchant, and another a grocer & draper. There were two beerhouse proprietors, one of whom was also a blacksmith, a shopkeeper, two shoemakers, a tailor, a butcher, a wheelwright, and the licensed victuallers of 'The Chequers' and the 'Crown & Woolpack' public houses. A business called Savage Brothers were grocers, bakers, offal dealers, coal merchants, and agents for guano and artificial manures.[10] Earlier, in 1856, White's had recorded both a Wesleyan and a Free Methodist chapel, and occupations including a baker, a drillman, a blacksmith, a wheelwright, three boot & shoe makers, two butchers, four shopkeepers, two tailors, a corn miller at 'Cross Mill' who was also a merchant, and eight farmers & graziers in five families. Also listed were the occupants of the 'Chequers', the 'Crown & Woolpack', and a beerhouse.[11] The Methodist chapel, which had been built in 1866, "adjacent to the burial ground", closed in 1967.[12]
See also
- Gedney
- Gedney Broadgate
- Gedney Drove End
- Gedney Hill
- Gedney Marsh
- Gedney Church End.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Gedney Dyke) |
- "Gedney Dyke", Gedney Parish Council
- "Gedney Dyke Village Hall", Community Lincs
- "Marsh Road, Gedney Dyke, Gedney, Methodist (United Free)": Genuki
References
- ↑ National Heritage List 1064577: Seadyke Mill (Grade II listing)
- ↑ National Monuments Record: No. 498121 – Seadike Mill
- ↑ Seadyke Mill, Gedney Dyke: Lincs to the Past
- ↑ National Heritage List 1064552: 2, Mill Bank (Grade II listing)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1359233: Peregrine's Rest (Grade II listing)
- ↑ Gedney Dyke: War Memorials Register, Imperial War Museum
- ↑ National Heritage List 1440858: Gedney Dyke War Memorial (Grade II listing)
- ↑ National Monuments Record: No. 355100 – Mounds of mediæval saltern
- ↑ "Former post office in Gedney Dyke", Homes Under the Hammer, BBC One, Episode 70, Series 20, 31 Aug 2018. Retrieved 27 January 2019
- ↑ Whites Directory of Lincolnshire (1872), pp.739, 740
- ↑ History, Gazetteer and Directory of Lincolnshire and the City and Diocese of Lincoln (1856), pp.827-829
- ↑ "Gedney Dyke Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Lincolnshire", My Wesleyan Methodists. Retrieved 27 January 2019