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Caistor Canal - Christopher Padley
Previously published accounts of the funding, construction, operation and demise of this canal are incomplete and contain inaccuracies. This article, based on primary sources, aims to remedy these deficiencies and present a comprehensive history of the canal.
The canal, completed in c1794, attempted to link Caistor, an important market and administrative centre, with the river Ancholme and thence to the Humber and east coast and Yorkshire trading centres. However, for financial reasons, the canal terminated at Moortown, some three miles (and over 100 feet in elevation) short of Caistor. It closed in c1860. Some of the stone-built locks survive in surprisingly complete condition.

Additional Information (pdf. document 15.5KB) about the canal is appended here.
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Lincolnshire Tickets, Checks and Passes of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century - John T Turner
Full-sized images of some 80 items (mostly small circular discs; some of metal, some of plastic) from Lincolnshire firms, inns, transport, police and farms, with brief explanatory notes.

Lawyering and Politics in Lincolnshire: the Smith-Heathcote Connection, 1760s to 1850s - Albert Schmidt
This paper examines Benjamin Smith’s law firm founded in Horbling, near Sleaford, in 1760 and considers the political implications of one of its client relationships, that with the affluent Heathcote family of Normanton (Rutland) and Folkingham. Here is an good local example of the political role played by country attorneys in that watershed century, 1750 to 1850.

Grand Deviations: The Course of the River Witham in Boston - Neil R Wright
Both historic and cartographic evidence are used to identify the course of the Witham between Anton’s Gowt and the centre of Boston before the re-alignment of the river in 1764-66.
Download corrected copies of maps here.

Industrial Archaeology Notes

• Canwick Hall Sewage Treatment Plant – Alan Singleton

• Evedon Siding and the Slea Navigation – Stewart Squires
  
  

The Historic Environment in Lincolnshire 2008: archaeology and historic buildings - Edited by Mark Bennet
Notes on archaeological work at 63 sites and surveys of 24 historic buildings mainly carried out between 1 April 2008 and 31 December 2008. Also included are notes, compiled by Adam Daubney, on 28 archaeological objects that were reported to the Portable Antiquities Scheme during 2008.

Notes of site investigations (pdf document 25.1KB) in Lincolnshire during 2008 with largely negative results are appended here (listed alphabetically by parish).

Book Reviews
Reviews of 25 books and a list of a further 69 books to do with Lincolnshire history, archaeology, places and people, published in 2009.