Ewerby and Evedon is a

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

North Kesteven North Kesteven is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in Lincolnshire, England. The council is based in Sleaford. The district also contains the town of North Hykeham, which adjoins the neighbouring city of Lincoln, England, L ...

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (), abbreviated ''Lincs'', is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber regions of England. It is bordered by the East Riding of Yorkshire across the Humber estuary to th ...

, England. It includes the villages of

Ewerby Ewerby is a village in the civil parish of Ewerby and Evedon, in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies north-east from Sleaford and south from Anwick. The hamlet of Ewerby Thorpe lies to the east from Ewerby. Histo ...

and

Evedon Evedon is a village in the civil parish of Ewerby and Evedon, in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated north-east from the town of Sleaford. In 1885 ''Kelly's Directory'' noted that Evedon was a parish of and t ...

, the hamlet of Haverholme, and is situated immediately east of

Sleaford Sleaford is a market town and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. On the edge of the The Fens, Fenlands, it is north-east of Grantham, west of Boston, Lincolnshire, Boston, and sou ...

. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 509.

Geography

Evedon Wood and the Old River Slea - geograph

The northern boundary of the parish follows the course of the

Sleaford Navigation The Sleaford Navigation was a canalisation of the River Slea in Lincolnshire, England, which opened in 1794. It ran from a junction with the River Witham, near Chapel Hill to the town of Sleaford through seven locks, most of which were adj ...

, and the old course of the

River Slea The River Slea is a tributary of the River Witham, in Lincolnshire, England. In 1872 the river was described as "a never-ending source of pure water", and was a trout river renowned throughout the East coast of England. But in the late 1960s, ...

runs within the parish from west to east, joining the navigation The extreme western tip of the parish pushes into Sleaford and the eastern side is demarked by a short section of the Navigation, and further by a minor drain continuous with it, the Midfodder dike (a local name for the Roman

Car Dyke The Car Dyke was, and to a large extent still is, a long ditch which runs along the western edge of the Fens in eastern England for a distance of over . It is generally accepted as being a Roman invasion of Britain, Roman construction and was, f ...

). The Southern edge, along Ewerby Fen, is traced by a field drain and the ''Hodge Dyke'', which is drained into the Car Dyke by a . The tapering western tip of the parish is traversed by the ''

Sleaford avoiding line Sleaford is a market town and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. On the edge of the Fenlands, it is north-east of Grantham, west of Boston, and south of Lincoln. It is the largest settlement in North Kest ...

'' of the railway, and the A17 ''Sleaford bypass''. At the North Eastern corner of the parish the place-names ''Ferry Lane'' and ''Ferry Farm'' point to the former ferry over the modern Slea Navigation. Most of the parish is about above sea level, only Ewerby village itself rising above , and in places above altitude. The Parish is generally open fields, with some woodland, one of whose names belies their purpose: . Throughout the parish the bedrock is a Jurassic Sedimentary mudstone, of the ''Oxford clay'' formation. This is covered with Glacial Till from the quaternary ice age.

Settlements

Ewerby Thorpe Ewerby Thorpe is a hamlet in the civil parish of Ewerby and Evedon, in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies north from the A17 road, east from Sleaford, and west from Boston. The village of Ewerby lies just to the we ...

* Haverholme

Other Locations

*The site of

Haverholme Priory Haverholme Priory was a former monastery and a country house in Lincolnshire, England. Its remains are situated north-east of the town of Sleaford and less than south-west from the village of Anwick. Foundation In 1137, Alexander, Bishop ...

The Gilbertine house of St Mary, founded in 1139 and dissolved in 1539. *The site of a Heronry in ''Haverholme Wood'' *Ewerby Waithe Common Site of Twelve Drain bridge, A bridge which, surprisingly, is not over the Twelve Drain, which is some yards away *Ewerby Fen The lowest part of the parish, no more than 3M above sea level. *Hallgarth The remains of a moat, or ornamental pond.

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