The building shown on this postcard dated from 1835 and belonged to the Finch Hattons, Earls of Winchelsea & Nottingham.

Demolished in the 1920s; only the tower remains.

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Postcard sent 1908

"A fragment only of a ruined country house in the Tudor taste. 1835 by H. E. Kendall ... 

This was the site of a Gilbertine priory founded in 1139.

A house in the Gothick taste was built here in the 1780s. It was the seat of the Finch Hatton family, Earls of Winchelsea and Nottingham. members of this family are mentioned in the book 'Out of Africa', as is Haverholme itself"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360563 

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Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"HAVERHOLME PRIORY, the seat of the Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham, is an ancient mansion, but has been much modernized, and is now a handsome structure of stone in the Tudor style, surrounded by an extensive and well-wooden park, stocked with deer, and comprising 350 acres of land, partly in the parish of Ewerby:

it, was formerly extra-parochial, but is now a parish, 4 miles north-east-by-east from Sleaford and 2 south-east from Ruskington station on the Spalding and Doncaster extension of the Great Northern and Great Eastern joint railway; the estate forming an island, being surrounded by two arms of the Sleaford river ...

Here was formerly a convent founded in 1139 by Alexander, 3rd Bishop of Lincoln and Lord Chancellor, with 50 monks and 100 nuns, of the order of St. Gilbert of Sempringham:

Thomas-a-Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1164 took refuge for some time in the hermitage belonging to the Priory, after which be returned to his own manor of Eastry, in Kent.

At the Dissolution the revenue of the monastery was estimated at £70.

There are sufficient remains to interest an antiquary"

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Priory ruins distantly viewed from Park Lane to the south.

Pevsner states "In the 1780s a Gothic house was built on the site, and then in 1830 rebuilt in Tudor style for the Earl of Winchelsea. The architect was H.E. Kendall. The centre and the porch remain; the rest was demolished in 1927".

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"Gates and screen walls to south (garden) front of Haverholme Park. 1835, by H. E. Kendall. Cast iron and limestone ashlar"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1168690 

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"Stable yard and coach house to Haverholme Priory. 1839, by H. E. Kendall, altered C20"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1061838 

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"Bridge over Old River Slea II Bridge. 1893"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1168315

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"On the sides the date 1893 and the arms of the Earls of Winchelsea"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1168315 

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View from the Haverholme side.

Parish boundary bisects the bridge and the far side is in Ruskington.

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"The Sleaford Navigation was a 12.5 mile (20.1 km) 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 adjacent to mills.

Lack of finance meant that it stopped short of its intended terminus, but it gradually grew to be successful financially.

The coming of the railways in 1857 led to a rapid decline, and it was officially abandoned by an act of Parliament in 1878, but remained open for a further three years.

The lower part of it remained navigable until the 1940s, when it was blocked by a sluice"

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A piece of mechanism beside the lock.

Control lever bears the name "C.L.Hett, Brigg" who were based at the Turbine Foundry / Ancholme Foundry, Brigg.

https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/C._L._Hett 

Located at Grid Reference TF104495.

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Weir beside the lock.

Parish boundary runs through the centre of the lock so this weir is actually in Ruskington.

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