Nettleton, Lincolnshire

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Nettleton
Lincolnshire
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Nettleton village
Location
Grid reference: TA108001
Location: 53°29’10"N, 0°19’49"W
Data
Population: 579  (2001)
Post town: Market Rasen
Postcode: LN7
Local Government
Council: West Lindsey
Parliamentary
constituency:
Gainsborough

Nettleton is a village in Lindsey, the northern part of Lincolnshire. It is situated less than a mile south-west of the town of Caistor. According to the 2001 census the village had a population of 579.

Nettleton has a village shop, a primary school, and a Methodist Church. The village public house is the Salutation Inn. Nearby is the Woodland Trust's Nettleton Wood, and a caravan park.

Traditions

On Boxing Day, shoemakers would traditionally 'beat the lapstone' at the house of any 'water drinker' (teetotaller), as a mocking act and practical joke. The tradition derives from an 18th-century story in which a Nettleton resident, Thomas Stickler, who had declined alcohol for twenty years, became inebriated after drinking half a pint of ale at his shoemaker on Christmas Day. When questioned by his wife, he replied that he was not drunk but had simply fallen "over the lapstone".

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