Jul 2012 minStoriesSidebar - The Loss of the Cranberry in the Fens of Lincolshire In this piece I look how drainage of the Fens for agriculture saw the loss of the cranberry in the Lincolnshire Fens.
Jul 156 minMarsh, Fen and TownDecoys - part 3 Friskney and Wainfleet decoys The Skeltons and the Williams decoymen.DECOYS AROUND FRISKNEY AND WAINFLEET The decoys of this area provided great interest yet by the time Oldfield published his History of...
Jul 128 minMarsh, Fen and TownDecoys - part 2 notes on more Lincolnshire DecoysDOWSBY DECOY - “……….towards Sleaford, we soon get to another group of six old Decoys, all within three miles NE of Dowsby, the most...
Jul 816 minMarsh, Fen and TownDecoys - part 1Most of us are familiar with the word Decoy referring to a wooden, or plastic model of a duck or pigeon, but in this case the word Decoy...