Gedney Dyke is a village in the

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of Gedney and the

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district of

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, England. It is south-east from the city and

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, and from both

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at the north-west and

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at the south-east. Gedney Dyke is north from the parish village of Gedney, and from the south-west shore of

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estuary. The village is centred where Roman Bank road runs into Main Street at the junction with Engine Dyke road. Roman Bank and Engine Dyke are part of the B1359 road which runs from Gedney Drove End, at the north-east, to Long Sutton to the southeast. Within the village are detached and semi detached houses, bungalows, a village farm, and a village hall. At the junction of Roman Bank and Engine Dyke are the remains of a tower mill, and at the junction of Memorial Lane with Main Street is a war memorial. South-west of the village, near the junction of Main Street and Lowgate, is The Chequers

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and restaurant. Bus services connect the village with

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and Long Sutton. Within Gedney Dyke are four Grade II

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structures. Seadyke Mill is a high red brick seven-storey

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for cereals dating to 1836. The mill, which was part of a village farm complex, was working until 1842. Its four sails were removed in 1947. Next to the mill is a c.1820 red brick,

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, two-storey house on Mill Bank. Peregrine's Rest at the south of the village is a red brick house dating to 1767. Gedney Dyke war memorial for those who died in the First and Second World Wars, a obelisk in

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designed by the local mason Charles Warrick, was "unveiled on 4 April 1920". In a field at the northwest of Main Street was found mounds of a previous medieval

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, evidenced by "burnt earth, slag ndshells". A former post office with general store (built 1903) at the corner of Main Street and Engine Dyke was converted to a residential property in 2018. In 1872 '' White's Directory of Lincolnshire'' recorded a

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chapel at Gedney Dyke. Occupations and trades at the time included six farmers, one of whom was also a grazier, another a corn merchant, and another a grocer &

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. There were two

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proprietors, one of whom was also a

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, a shopkeeper, two shoemakers, a tailor, a butcher, a

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, and the

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s of 'The Chequers' and the 'Crown & Woolpack'

s. A business called Savage Brothers were grocers, bakers,

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dealers, coal merchants, and agents for

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and artificial manures.''Whites Directory of Lincolnshire'' (1872), pp.739, 740 Earlier, in 1856, ''White's'' had recorded both a

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and a Free Methodist chapel, and occupations including a baker, a drillman, a blacksmith, a wheelwright, three boot & shoe makers, two butchers, four shopkeepers, two tailors, a corn miller at 'Cross Mill' who was also a merchant, and eight farmers & graziers in five families. Also listed were the occupants of the 'Chequers', the 'Crown & Woolpack', and a beerhouse.''History, Gazetteer and Directory of Lincolnshire and the City and Diocese of Lincoln'' (1856), pp.827-829 The Methodist chapel, which had been built in 1866, "adjacent to the burial ground", closed in 1967."Gedney Dyke Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Lincolnshire"
My Wesleyan Methodists. Retrieved 27 January 2019

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External links

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"Gedney Dyke"
Gedney Parish Council, Retrieved 27 January 2019
"Gedney Dyke Village Hall"
Community Lincs. Retrieved 27 January 2019
"Marsh Road, Gedney Dyke, Gedney, Methodist (United Free)"
location and details of the former Free Methodist chapel,

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