NEWSLETTER
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Extracts from recent articles
Church Restoration 1863 - 1864
The south aisle was entirely rebuilt, covered in with blue slate...in the nave the clerestory windows were removed...the nave & both aisles were fitted up with open benches of American red Deal stained & varnished...the ends of the seats...with old carved oak taken from the old seats...the contract for the work, amounting to £490 was undertaken by Mr Benj. Andrews, Stickford.
Stickford Schools
By 1846 the children of Stickford, whose parents were mainly described as agricultural labourers or cottagers, were about to lose even their miserable mud building and school where they endured ’suffocation prejudicial to health’.
Field Names in Stickford
... a survey of the property of J H Short at East Keal and Stickford in 1835 (Lincolnshire Archives MISC DEP 17/2) has revealed some interesting field names. Some, Nine Acres, House Close and Far Close are self explanatory, but others may reveal their history through their name....
An Oasis for the 21st Century?
... the settlement began as the terminal moraine of a glacier, slightly higher and drier than the surrounding land. 4000 years ago the area was boggy woodland and Stickford, as a point where the wetland could be forded, was on the route from the Wolds to Boston, with early travellers using what is now Boston Lane....