Torksey Lock with a view across the River Trent to Cottam Power Station in Nottinghamshire.

"The Fossdyke joins the River Trent at Torksey. A branch leaves the main channel, passes under the A156 bridge, and immediately enters Torksey lock, which is the only lock on the canal.

It has six sets of gates, three sets facing Lincoln, and three facing the river, which is tidal at this point, and so its level can be higher than the level of the canal.

The gates allow the lock to be used at most states of the tide.

A steel footbridge crosses the lock near the road, and both the footbridge and the lock are grade II listed structures"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foss_Dyke 

DB 23 April 2019 

"The Foss Dyke, or Fossdyke, connects the River Trent at Torksey to Lincoln, the county town of Lincolnshire, and may be the oldest canal in England that is still in use.

It is usually thought to have been built around AD 120 by the Romans, but there is no consensus among authors.

It was refurbished in 1121, during the reign of King Henry I, and responsibility for its maintenance was transferred to the city of Lincoln by King James I.

Improvements made in 1671 included a navigable sluice or lock at Torksey, and warehousing and wharves were built at Brayford Pool in the centre of Lincoln"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foss_Dyke 

DB 23 April 2019 

"Canal lock and bridge. C19. Ashlar, wood, cast iron.

Rectangular lock chamber with double gates at either end and a footbridge over end nearest road.

Ashlar side walls with cast iron capstans to control lock gates.

Double gates made of wood with iron mountings.

The footbridge is of steel with a balustrade and handrail.

The Foss Dike Navigation Canal was originally dug in Roman times but was re-opened during the reign of James I.

This lock controls the outfall to the Trent"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1147315 

DB 23 April 2019 

Listed in Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919

"White Swan, Fredk. Geo. Marrison, Torksey Lock, Lincoln"

DB 5 February 2019

Torksey Castle was built in the middle of the sixteenth century by the wealthy Jermyn family of Suffolk, possibly as a convenient resting place on the road to York.

In August 1645 during the English Civil War it was almost totally destroyed by Parliamentarians.

The west front and part of the kitchen range are all that remain of this once impressive country house.
 

Mentioned in Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1889

"Bingham Joseph, Hume Arms P.H"

Is the present very substantial building a rebuild on the same site? 

DB 5 March 2019

The bridge over the Trent at Torksey for the MSLR was designed by John Fowler and opened in 1850.

It is the second oldest girder bridge of its type left in the world.  It is made of wrought iron box-girders which are structurally continuous over the central pier.

The line finally closed in 1988.

This view is from the north-west.

July 2013

This closer view of the bridge shows the wrought iron box-girders, the most significant components of the bridge.

July 2013

View of the bridge from the south-east.

July 2013

The bridge was strengthened in 1897 by the insertion of a central steel girder, seen here on the left.

The line finally closed in 1988.

July 2013

The cross beams supporting the rails are suspended from the girders.

July 2013

The bridge was strengthened in 1897 by the insertion of a central steel girder, seen here.

The method of suspending cross-beams is also clarified.

July 2013

Plaque located at the Torksey end of the bridge.

"This viaduct, designed by Sir John Fowler and completed in 1849, carried the main line of the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway over the River Trent. The main span over the river was modified in 1897 to improve its strength. The railway closed in 1959, and the viaduct is now listed Grade II*. The viaduct was restored, and opened to the public, in 2016"

DB 2 February 2022

"Torksey Viaduct was officially opened as a walking route on the 22nd April 2016 by Sir William McAlpine, Chair of the Railway Heritage Trust"

https://www.railwaypaths.org.uk/our-achievements/torksey-viaduct/ 

Cooling towers of the former Cottam Power Station just visible in the background. 

DB 2 February 2022

The tower of St Peter's is 16th century and is in pleasing contrast to the plain unattractive render on the rest of the church.

August 2013

The nave, aisle and chancel of St Peter's have plain, rendered walls and were rebuilt in 1821 by William Hayward.

August 2013

Inside St Peter's are 13th century arcades, with beautiful stiff leaf capitals.

The chancel arch and the font are also 13th century.

May 2010

Carving of bishop's head at springing point of arch.

August 2017

"In the nave, high up in the south wall is a pointed niche containing a reset worn seated figure, possibly a C13 virgin and child"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064078 

Has also been described as a Sheila-na-gig figure.

https://www.lincstothepast.com/Sheila-na-gig-figure-in-the-wall-of-St-Peter-s-church--Torksey/233645.record?pt=S  

DB 20 May 2018

"The altar table re-uses a C15 recumbent black letter slab with a shallow carving of a lady with coats of arms to either side of the head"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064078 

Church's brief history states that "as part of the Victorian Restoration, a stone memorial to Margaret de Multon, prioress at the nunnery, was removed from St. Peter's churchyard to provide a stone altar.

DB 20 May 2018

The three-bay arcade of the thirteenth century has quatrefoil piers with stiff-leaf capitals.

August 2017

Pevsner says that above the west tower window is a "charming crouching figure: a reset C14 caryatid".

DB 20 May 2018 

St Peter's font, thirteenth century in date, is a simple tub shape with decorated frieze along the rim.

August 2017

Grotesque head set into the west tower. Fingers pulling the mouth into a wicked grin.

DB 20 May 2018

Church open for West Lindsey Churches Festival with an ongoing art exhibition off to the left.

DB 20 May 2018

This small pipe organ in painted case of classical form was 'presented to Torksey St Peter by Stow Methodist Church 2004' according to the brass plaque.

August 2017

A small area of early wall decoration uncovered on the wall of the nave.

August 2017

First world war memorial plaque 1914 - 1919.

DB 20 May 2018

Second world war memorial plaque 1939 - 1945.

DB 20 May 2018