HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS
IN LINCOLNSHIRE
MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited
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Highways and Byways
IN
Lincolnshire
BY
WILLINGHAM FRANKLIN RAWNSLEY
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
FREDERICK L. GRIGGS
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN’S STREET, LONDON
1914
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All writers make use of the labours of their predecessors.This is inevitable, and a custom as old as time. As Mr. RudyardKipling sings:—
In writing this book I have made use of all the sources thatI could lay under contribution, and especially I have relied forhelp on “Murray’s Handbook,” edited by the Rev. G. E. Jeans,and the Journals of the associated Architectural Societies.I have recorded in the course of the volume my thanks to afew kind helpers, and to these I must add the name of Mr. A. R.Corns of the Lincoln Library, for his kindness in allowing methe use of many books on various subjects, and on severaloccasions, which have been of the utmost service to me. Mybest thanks, also, are due to my cousin, Mr. Preston Rawnsley,for his chapter on the Foxhounds of Lincolnshire. That thebook owes much to the pencil of Mr. Griggs is obvious; hisillustrations need no praise of mine but speak for themselves.The drawing given on p. 254 is by Mrs. Rawnsley.
I have perhaps taken the title “Highways and Byways”more literally than has usually been done by writers in thisinteresting series, and in endeavouring to describe the countyand its ways I have followed the course of all the main roadsradiating from each large town, noticing most of the placesthrough or near which they pass, and also pointi