Dyke is a village in the
South Kesteven
South Kesteven is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in Lincolnshire, England, forming part of the traditional Kesteven division of the county. It covers Bourne, Lincolnshire, Bourne, Grantham, Market Deeping and Stamford, Li ...
district of
Lincolnshire, England. It is situated less than east from the
A15 road, and approximately 1 mile north-east from
Bourne
Bourne may refer to:
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* Bourne, Lincolnshire, a town
** Bourne Abbey
** Bourne railway station
* Bourne (electoral division), West Sussex
* Bourne SSSI, Avon, a Site of Special Scientific Interest near Burrington, North Somerset
* Bourne ...
. Dyke is within Bourne
civil parish.
The name Dyke arises from its lying on
Car Dyke, a once much larger
Roman ditch, which runs along the western edge of
The Fens. The section of Car Dyke between Dyke and Bourne is a scheduled ancient monument.
For population statistics Dyke,
Twenty, South Fen, and Spalding road outside Bourne are taken together; Dyke is the largest of these settlements. The 2001 census recorded a population of 1,598, falling to 1,541 at the 2011 census.
Dyke and Dyke Fen fall within the drainage area of the Black Sluice
Internal Drainage Board.
A new fountain was built on the green in the centre of the village to mark the millennium.
Dyke's
public house is The Wishing Well Inn.
References
External links
*
"Dyke" homepages.which.net. Retrieved 22 July 2011
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Villages in Lincolnshire
South Kesteven District