Friskney Eaudyke
| Friskney Eaudyke | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 Wesleyan Centenary Chapel, Friskney Eaudyke | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF473559 |
| Location: | 53°4’48"N, 0°11’56"E |
| Data | |
| Population: | 1,563 |
| Post town: | Boston |
| Postcode: | PE22 |
| Dialling code: | 01754 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | East Lindsey |
Friskney Eaudyke is a settlement in the parish of Friskney, in Lindsey, the northern part of Lincolnshire. It is found eleven miles north-east of Boston and thirty miles east of the county town, the City of Lincoln.
The hamlet is a mile east of Friskney itself, and the same distance north-east of Fold Hill, also in the parish. The A52 road, which runs locally from Boston to Skegness, is 800 yards south-east.
About the village
The hamlet is centred on the northwest-to-southeast Eau Dyke Road, between Low Road at the north-west and the staggered junction with Sickling Lane and Chapel Lane at the south-east. Friskney Eaudyke comprises detached and semidetached houses, farms with associated buildings, a farm produce distribution company, a balloon supply & event company, a garage services company, and Grade II listed buildings.
Bridge Farmhouse, a late 18th-century two-storey red brick house, stands on Low Road south of the junction with Eau Dyke Road.[1] Over the junction and further north on Low Road is Ash Tree Farmhouse, a mid-18th to mid-19th-century gabled red brick house.[2]
At the north on Mill Lane off Low Road, and near the parish border of Wainfleet St Mary, is Hoyle's Windmill, of three-storeys and today converted to a storehouse by the addition of an attached building. Largely early 19th-century, it dates from 1730.[3][4]
At the south-west on Chapel Lane is a 19th-century red brick Wesleyan Centenary Chapel, dating to 1839, and which is Grade II* listed.[5][6]
In 1871, pottery listed as "Ancient British" and fragments of bone were found by workmen on Eaudyke Road at the south-east of the hamlet.[7] Kelly's Directory in 1885 noted the 1871 archeological finds by workmen as they were building the infants' school at 'Eaudyke'. The directory records a schoolmistress, and the Wesleyan chapel which it said was built in 1832.[8] The listed trades at 'Eaudyke' in the 1933 Kelly's Directory included five farmers, a potato merchant, a saddler, a beer retailer, a shopkeeper, a grocer, a butcher, a baker, and a motor engineer.[9]
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References
- ↑ National Heritage List 1267368: Bridge Farmhouse (Grade II listing)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1223585: Ash Tree Farmhouse (Grade II listing)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1267367: Hoyle's Windmill (Grade II listing)
- ↑ National Monuments Record: No. 498116 – Hoyle's Windmill
- ↑ National Heritage List 1267369: Methodist Chapel (Grade II* listing)
- ↑ National Monuments Record: No. 1376475 – Wesleyan Centenary Chapel
- ↑ National Monuments Record: No. 355151 – Findspot: pottery and bones
- ↑ Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull 1885, pp.281-283
- ↑ Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1933, pp.190, 191
