Friskney Eaudyke is a settlement in the
civil parish
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of
Friskney
Friskney is a village and civil parish within the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.OS Explorer map: Skegness, Alford & Spilsby: (1:25 000):
The parish includes the settlement of Friskney Eaudyke. The 2011 Census recorded a paris ...
, and the
East Lindsey
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district of
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, England. It is north-east from
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and east-southeast from the city and
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of
Lincoln
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Friskney Eaudyke is east from the parish village of Friskney, and the same distance north-east from the parish hamlet of Fold Hill. The
A52 road
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, which runs locally from Boston to
Skegness
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, is south-east.
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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.[
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. Over the junction and further north on Low Road is Ash Tree Farmhouse, a mid-18th to mid-19th-century gabled red brick house. 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. At the south-west on Chapel Lane is the Grade II* listed 19th-century red brick Wesleyan Centenary Chapel, dating to 1839.
In 1871 "Ancient British" pottery, and fragments of bone were found by workmen on Eaudyke Road at the south-east of the settlement.]Kelly's Directory
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'' 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.[''Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull'' 1885, pp.281-283] The listed trades at 'Eaudyke' in the 1933 ''Kelly's Directory'' included five farmers, a potato merchant, a saddle
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r, a beer retailer, a shopkeeper, a grocer, a butcher, a baker, and a motor engineer.[''Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire'' 1933, pp.190, 191]
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Villages in Lincolnshire
East Lindsey District