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Witham Third District IDB
Witham Third District IDB is an English internal drainage board set up under the terms of the Land Drainage Act 1930. The Board inherited the responsibilities of the Witham General Drainage Commissioners, who were first constituted by an Act of Parliament of 1762. They manage the land drainage of an area to the north and east of the River Witham, between Lincoln and Dogdyke, which includes the valley of the River Bain to above Hemingby, and the valleys of Barlings Eau and most of its tributaries, to the north east of Lincoln. Most of the parishes were enclosed in the late 1700s, by separate Acts of Parliament, and steam-powered drainage was introduced from the 1830s. Steam engines were gradually replaced by oil and diesel engines, and most have since been superseded by electric pumps. The Witham Third District IDB maintains seventeen pumping stations and of drainage channels. Organisation The River Witham passes through low-lying land in Lincolnshire, which is susceptible to flo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north-west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders Northamptonshire in the south for just , England's shortest county boundary. The county town is Lincoln, where the county council is also based. The ceremonial county of Lincolnshire consists of the non-metropolitan county of Lincolnshire and the area covered by the unitary authorities of North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire. Part of the ceremonial county is in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England, and most is in the East Midlands region. The county is the second-largest of the English ceremonial counties and one that is predominantly agricultural in land use. The county is fourth-larg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)
The Great Northern Railway (GNR) was a British railway company incorporated in 1846 with the object of building a line from London to York. It quickly saw that seizing control of territory was key to development, and it acquired, or took leases of, many local railways, whether actually built or not. In so doing, it overextended itself financially. Nevertheless, it succeeded in reaching into the coalfields of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Yorkshire, as well as establishing dominance in Lincolnshire and north London. Bringing coal south to London was dominant, but general agricultural business, and short- and long-distance passenger traffic, were important activities too. Its fast passenger express trains captured the public imagination, and its Chief Mechanical Engineer Nigel Gresley became a celebrity. Anglo-Scottish travel on the East Coast Main Line became commercially important; the GNR controlled the line from London to Doncaster and allied itself with the North Ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirkstead
Kirkstead is an ancient village and former civil parish on the River Witham in Lincolnshire, England. It was merged with the civil parish of Woodhall Spa in 1987. History Kirkstead has its origins in a Cistercian monastery, Kirkstead Abbey (the name Kirkstead means "the site of a church" ) founded in 1139 by Hugh Brito, lord of Tattershall and originally colonised by an abbot and twelve monks from Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire. It was around this abbey that the little settlement of Kirkstead grew. The abbey remained in existence until 1537, when it was dissolved and Richard Harrison (the last Abbot) and three of his monks were executed by King Henry VIII following their implication (probably unjustly) in the Lincolnshire Rising of the previous year. The abbey and manor of Kirkstead passed to the Duke of Suffolk, Henry VIII's brother-in-law, and later to the Clintons, Earls of Lincoln, who built a large country house. By 1791 that too had gone, and all that remains today is a dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compound Steam Engine
A compound steam engine unit is a type of steam engine where steam is expanded in two or more stages. A typical arrangement for a compound engine is that the steam is first expanded in a high-pressure ''(HP)'' cylinder, then having given up heat and losing pressure, it exhausts directly into one or more larger-volume low-pressure ''(LP)'' cylinders. Multiple-expansion engines employ additional cylinders, of progressively lower pressure, to extract further energy from the steam. Invented in 1781, this technique was first employed on a Cornish beam engine in 1804. Around 1850, compound engines were first introduced into Lancashire textile mills. Compound systems There are many compound systems and configurations, but there are two basic types, according to how HP and LP piston strokes are phased and hence whether the HP exhaust is able to pass directly from HP to LP ( Woolf compounds) or whether pressure fluctuation necessitates an intermediate "buffer" space in the form of a st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beam Engine
A beam engine is a type of steam engine where a pivoted overhead beam is used to apply the force from a vertical piston to a vertical connecting rod. This configuration, with the engine directly driving a pump, was first used by Thomas Newcomen around 1705 to remove water from mines in Cornwall. The efficiency of the engines was improved by engineers including James Watt, who added a separate condenser; Jonathan Hornblower and Arthur Woolf, who compounded the cylinders; and William McNaught, who devised a method of compounding an existing engine. Beam engines were first used to pump water out of mines or into canals but could be used to pump water to supplement the flow for a waterwheel powering a mill. The rotative beam engine is a later design of beam engine where the connecting rod drives a flywheel by means of a crank (or, historically, by means of a sun and planet gear). These beam engines could be used to directly power the line-shafting in a mill. They also c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thimbleby, Lincolnshire
Thimbleby is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately west from the A158 road and the town of Horncastle. Thimbleby is listed in ''Domesday Book'' of 1086 as "Stimbelbi", with 67 households, which at the time was considered very large. The Lord of the Manor was King William I. The church is dedicated to Saint Margaret and is a Grade II listed building built of greenstone in 1744 to replace a medieval church on the same site, and was largely rebuilt in 1879 by James Fowler of Louth. It was closed in December 2010 due to unsafe stonework and electrical wiring. The village hall was built in 1856, originally as a school, and is Grade II listed. The old village pump survives, dating from 1857, standing in a three sided red-brick enclosure. There are several cottages, some mud and stud, some thatched, in Thimbleby, including White Cottage, dating from the 16th century, Rose Cottage, and The Cabin, both of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tupholme
Tupholme is a village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated east from Lincoln, and is the site of the ruined Tupholme Abbey on the road between Horncastle and Bardney. The population is included in the civil parish of Bucknall. The Abbey, founded before 1190 by Gilbert and Alan de Neville, was the home of Premonstratensian white canons, numbering around 24 in the 15th century."Abbeys of the Witham Valley" ''Heritage Lincolnshire''; retrieved 28 April 2011 The ruins chiefly consist of parts of the Early English wall of the |
Stixwould
Stixwould is a small village in the civil parish of Stixwould and Woodhall, in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. Geography The village is situated east from Lincoln and north-east from the large village of Woodhall Spa. The River Witham runs a little over a mile to the west of the village which lies on the southern end of the Lincolnshire Limewoods. Stixwould lies on a finger of higher ground on the edge of the Witham fenland, bordered to the north by the Catchwater Drain and to the south by Reeds Beck. The historic parish of Stixwould contains numerous woodlands most notable of which are Stixwould Wood to the north-west, Halstead Wood to the west and Long Wood to the south. Nowadays the ancient parish has been adjoined with the parish of Woodhall to form the parish of Stixwould and Woodhall with a combined population of 255 in 2011. History Stixwould's name originates from the Old English ''Stigr'' and ''wald'' meaning Stigr's forest or wood, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southrey
Southrey is a village in the civil parish of Bardney in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, and approximately south-east from Bardney. In the 1086 ''Domesday Book'' Southrey is listed as "Sutrei", comprising 11 households. The little church dedicated to Saint John the Divine was built in 1898. Southrey Wood Butterfly Reserve is managed by Butterfly Conservation. Southrey Woods cover and are part of Bardney Limewoods, a Site of Special Scientific Interest A Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Great Britain or an Area of Special Scientific Interest (ASSI) in the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom and Isle of ... Southrey railway station opened in 1848 and closed in 1970. References External links * {{authority control Villages in Lincolnshire West Lindsey District ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horsington, Lincolnshire
Horsington is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies on the B1190, north from Woodhall Spa and west from Horncastle as well as 6 miles east of Bardney. The parish includes the hamlet of Poolham which is situated to the east of the village. History In 1860 the Grade II listed parish church of All Saints was completely rebuilt in red brick, the previous structure being thatched. At that time the Horsington Anglican rectory and living was in the gift of Magdelen College, Oxford, as principal landowner and provider of the village Lords of the Manor. Magdelen possibly provided the church organ. The same year the college founded the village National School, and subscribed to its support. ''Kelly'' also notes the existence of a Wesleyan Chapel. In 1872 '' White's Directory'' reported that Horsington had a population of 397 within a parish of that extends to Hare Booth south on the River Witham and includes farms and a wood ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edlington, Lincolnshire
Edlington is a village in the parish of Edlington with Wispington, in East Lindsey Lincolnshire, England. It is situated north-west of Horncastle. In 1961 the parish had a population of 105. On 1 April 1987 the parish was abolished and merged with Wispington to form Edlington with Wispington. Edlington Grade II listed Anglican parish church is dedicated to St Helen. Originating in the 12th century, it was rebuilt in 1859 by James Fowler, but retained its Norman tower arch and Early English font.Cox, J. Charles (1916) ''Lincolnshire'' p. 123; Methuen & Co. Ltd Another listed building is the late 16th-century Hall Farm House. References External links *"Edlington" Genuki GENUKI is a genealogy web portal, run as a charitable trust. It "provides a virtual reference library of genealogical information of particular relevance to the UK and Ireland". It gives access to a large collection of information, with the emphas ....org.uk. Retrieved 26 July 2011 {{authority co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bucknall, Lincolnshire
Bucknall is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The village is situated approximately west from Horncastle and north from Woodhall Spa. History A Neolithic stone axe and Roman pottery fragment have been found around the village. The first historical reference to the village is from the Saxon Charters of 806 AD, in which it is referred to as Bokenhale. In the Domesday book of 1086 the name is spelt Buchehale. It seems likely that the village name means remote/hidden place where the goats are. 'Boken-'/'Buche-'/'Buckn-' could stem from 'bucca' an old English word for goat. 'Hale' is an old English word meaning a recess, nook, or remote valley. Other theories are that the village is named after a man with the old English name Bucca, that it's a reference to deer (buc in old English), or that it refers to beech trees (bok in old Norse). It is claimed that the historical figure Lady Godiva was born in Bucknall around 995 AD, however ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
