Friskney Eaudyke is a settlement in the
civil parish of
Friskney
Friskney is a village and civil parish within the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.OS Explorer map: Skegness, Alford & Spilsby: (1:25 000):
The parish includes the settlement of Friskney Eaudyke. The 2011 Census recorded a pari ...
, and the
East Lindsey
East Lindsey is a local government district in Lincolnshire, England. The population of the district council was 136,401 at the 2011 census. The council is based in Manby. Other major settlements in the district include Alford, Wragby, Spilsby ...
district of
Lincolnshire, England. It is north-east from
Boston and east-southeast from the city and
county town
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of
Lincoln.
Friskney Eaudyke is east from the parish village of Friskney, and the same distance north-east from the parish hamlet of Fold Hill. The
A52 road, which runs locally from Boston to
Skegness, is south-east.
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The settlement 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.[
The listed Bridge Farmhouse, a late 18th-century two-storey red brick house, is on Low Road south from the junction with Eau Dyke Road. Over the junction and further north on Low Road is Ash Tree Farmhouse, a mid-18th to mid-19th-century gabled red brick house. At the north on Mill Lane off Low Road, and near the border with ]Wainfleet St Mary
Wainfleet St Mary is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated directly south of Wainfleet All Saints on the A52 road, south-west from Skegness and north-east f ...
, 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. At the south-west on Chapel Lane is the Grade II* listed 19th-century red brick Wesleyan Centenary Chapel, dating to 1839.
In 1871 "Ancient British" pottery, and fragments of bone were found by workmen on Eaudyke Road at the south-east of the settlement.[''Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull'' 1885, pp.281-283] 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.[''Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire'' 1933, pp.190, 191]
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Villages in Lincolnshire
East Lindsey District