Friskney Eaudyke

Friskney Eaudyke is a settlement in the civil parish of Friskney, and the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is 11 miles (20 km) north-east from Boston and 30 miles (50 km) east-southeast from the city and county town of Lincoln.

Friskney Eaudyke

Wesleyan Centenary Chapel, Friskney Eaudyke
Friskney Eaudyke
Location within Lincolnshire
Population1,563 
OS grid referenceTF473559
• London105 mi (169 km) S
Civil parish
  • Friskney
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBOSTON
Postcode districtPE22
Dialling code01754
PoliceLincolnshire
FireLincolnshire
AmbulanceEast Midlands

Friskney Eaudyke is 1 mile (1.6 km) 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 800 yards (700 m) south-east.[1]

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.[1]

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.[2] Over the junction and further north on Low Road is Ash Tree Farmhouse, a mid-18th to mid-19th-century gabled red brick house.[3] At the north on Mill Lane off Low Road, and near the border with Wainfleet St Mary, 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.[4][5] At the south-west on Chapel Lane is the Grade II* listed 19th-century red brick Wesleyan Centenary Chapel, dating to 1839.[6][7]

In 1871 "Ancient British" pottery, and fragments of bone were found by workmen on Eaudyke Road at the south-east of the settlement.[8] Kelly's Directory in 1885 noted the 1871 archeological finds by workmen as they were building the infants' school at 'Eaudyke'. The directory records a schoolmistress, and the Wesleyan chapel which it said was built in 1832.[9] 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.[10]

References
  1. Extracted from Grid Reference Finder
  2. Historic England. "Bridge Farmhouse (1267368)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  3. Historic England. "Ash Tree Farmhouse (1223585)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  4. Historic England. "Hoyle's Windmill (1267367)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  5. Historic England. "Hoyle's Windmill (498116)". PastScape. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  6. Historic England. "Methodist Chapel (1267369)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  7. Historic England. "Wesleyan Centenary Chapel (1376475)". PastScape. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  8. Historic England. "Monument no. 355151 (355151)". PastScape. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  9. Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull 1885, pp.281-283
  10. Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1933, pp.190, 191
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