The Cistercian abbey of Kirkstead was founded in 1139 and moved to its final site in 1187.

All that remains now above ground is this fragment - the south-east angle of the south transept of the church.

Frank Robinson, 2010

Part of the south transept wall of the abbey church.

Richard Harrison the last Abbot and three of the monks were executed for their part in the Lincolnshire Uprising 1537.

DB 5 April 2018

Panoramic view of the site.

An immense area of earthworks representing the many buildings which once surrounded the abbey.

DB 5 April 2018

Public house. Early C19. Colourwashed brick in English garden wall bond of 3.

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1215295 

Pevsner comments that there were "extensive vaulted medieval cellars, now filled in"

DB 18 April 2018 

Kirkstead Bridge carrying B1191 over the River Witham as viewed from Martin Dales.

Replaced a former swing bridge in 1968. 

Swing bridge shown on Ordnance Survey 6" map revised in 1904 but no bridge whatsoever on similar map published in 1883.

DB 5 April 2018 

"The Mill Lane chapel was built in 1834 and closed in 1952.

Permission to sell was given in October 1953 and the chapel is now boarded up and derelict"

From "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Coningsby Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson September 1997 (Revised July 1998).

DB 26 January 2019

Detail of the date stone.

DB 26 January 2019

Former Railway Hotel now the Ragged Apron Cafe.

Listed in White's Directory 1872 "Atkinson Harrup, vict. Railway Htl" and in Kelly's Directory 1919 "Railway hotel, George Wilkinson, Kirkstead, Lincoln".

Located near Woodhall Junction Railway Station.

DB 20 April 2022

The chapel of St Leonard was built in 1230-40 near the gates of Kirkstead Abbey, and is said to be one of the finest examples of 13th century architecture in the county.

The interior has a vaulted roof, high quality carving, and a rare wooden screen that is probably as old as the building.

Frank Robinson, 2010

The interior of the church of St Leonard, Kirkstead, showing the thirteenth century vaulting and the screen.

Frank Robinson, 2010

The Wesleyan Methodist Chapel on Witham Road, the second on this site, was opened in 1891.

The building became unsafe and was demolished in 1994. For a while the congregation met in the schoolroom at the rear.

Press cutting, 1926 

The Lincoln to Boston line was opened in 1848 as part of the Great Northern Railway's Lincolnshire Loop Line. What was then called Kirkstead station was renamed Woodhall Junction in 1922.

The station buildings had been extended in 1855 when it became the junction for the branch line to Horncastle.

A busy ferry here, over the River Witham, was replaced by a swing bridge in 1891 and reached by the level crossing which the Lincoln bound train in this view is about to cross. It was replaced in turn in 1968 by the bridge from which this photograph is taken.

The passenger service to Horncastle ceased in 1954 and to Lincoln in 1970. Goods trains continued to run serving the goods yards here and at Horncastle until April 1971.

The cast iron gent's urinal from this station can be seen in the Museum of Lincolnshire Life in Lincoln.

Peter Grey Archive, 1969

Former railway station viewed from the east.

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Former station viewed from Kirkstead Bridge. 

White's Directory 1872 for Kirkstead reads " It has a railway station at the junction of the branch from Horncastle with the Great Northern line between Lincoln and Boston" also "White Chas. Money, station master".

DB 16 April 2022