- ... that 4,920
Iron Age pellet moulds were uncovered at
Sleaford, one of the largest deposits of its kind in Europe? - Featured 25 June 2015
- ... that since production ceased at
Bass Maltings in
Sleaford, the complex has been used for rearing chickens? - Featured 21 April 2015
- ... that
Westholme House, a
neo-Gothic mansion in
Sleaford, became a library after World War II and is now part of a school? - Featured 10 April 2015
- ... that
Cecil and
Frank Rhodes learnt how to ride a horse while staying with their aunt at the
Manor House in
Sleaford? - Featured 25 March 2015
- ... that Canadian novelist
Marsha Canham became inspired to write
Through a Dark Mist after experiencing a recurring dream of two men disguised as monks rescuing a
damsel in distress? - Featured 20 March 2014
- ... that until 1989, the village of
Broadholme in
Lincolnshire was located in
Nottinghamshire? - Featured 3 August 2013
- ... that
St John the Evangelist's Church, Corby Glen ' has extensive early 15th-century wall paintings? - Featured 21 July 2013
- ... that during the
Antinomian Controversy,
Anne Hutchinson (pictured) withstood two separate trials without counsel before being banished from
Massachusetts?- Featured 9 July 2012
- ... that
St Denys' Church, Sleaford (pictured) has one of the oldest stone
broach spires in England and an
altar rail designed by
Sir Christopher Wren? - Featured 5 June 2011
- ... that up to 200 people played a game of
football on land near
Brothertoft,
Lincolnshire, in the 1760s as a protest against
enclosure? - Featured 23 April 2011
- ... that the
Lincoln Thornton Manuscript, compiled around 1430-1440 by an amateur scribe and country gentleman, contains the only extant copies of
Sir Degrevant and the
Alliterative Morte Arthure? - Featured 16 April 2011
- ... that
Ruck machine gun posts were built from prefabricated sections, paving slabs, sandbags and rammed earth? - Featured 5 October 2010
- ... that the
Outer Trial Bank, a nature reserve in
East Anglia,
UK, was originally built as part of a failed government scheme to
barrage
the Wash and create a
reservoir? - Featured 16 March 2010.
- ... that the medieval chronicler
Matthew Paris accused the medieval bishop
Hugh of Wells (d. 1235) of being biased against monks, calling him "an untiring persecutor of monks"? - Featured 17 January 2010.
- ... that although little is known of the episcopate of
William de Blois,
Bishop of Lincoln from 1203 to 1206, he was still remembered as a learned man in the 14th century? - Featured 11 January 2010.
- ... that the
body of
Saint Eadnoth was stolen by the monks of
Ely Abbey while the guards taking it to
Ramsey Abbey were drunk? - Featured 6 January 2010.
- ... that
Haldanes is the first mid-sized
supermarket chain to open in the UK for more than 20 years? - Featured 5 January 2010.
- ... that with his 60 tonne 25.25 m long
Denby Eco-Link super
lorry, Dick Denby of Denby Transport,
Lincoln, hopes to challenge the government prohibition of most types of
Longer Heavier Vehicles from the roads of the
United Kingdom? - Featured 29 December 2009
- ... that
Archbishop of Rouen
Walter de Coutances (d. 1207) had to pay the final 10,000
marks of King
Richard I of England's ransom, as the archbishop was a hostage until it was paid? - Featured 6 December 2009.
- ... that the medieval English bishop
Robert de Chesney was an early patron of
Thomas Becket, later famous for his quarrel with King
Henry II of England? - Featured 1 December 2009.
- ... that
St Peter's Church, Barton-upon-Humber (pictured) was the first example of
Anglo-Saxon architecture identified using evidence contained in the building? - Featured 30 November 2009
- ... that the engine house of the
Pinchbeck Engine,
Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, England, is a
Scheduled Ancient Monument? - Featured 9 October 2009.
- ... that medieval English bishop
Alexander of Lincoln was patron of the chronicler
Geoffrey of Monmouth, who dedicated his Prophecies of Merlin to the bishop? - Featured 7 October 2009.
- ... that
Horkstow Bridge in
North Lincolnshire, completed in 1836, is the only
suspension bridge designed by
Sir John Rennie, builder of
London Bridge? - Featured 6 October 2009.
- ... that
Robert Bloet, a medieval
Bishop of Lincoln, appointed his own son Simon as
Dean of Lincoln? - Featured 28 September 2009.
- ... that the names of the several "Blue"
public houses and inns in Grantham have their origins in a time when the
parliamentary constituency of Grantham was a
pocket borough? - Featured 2 August 2009.
- ... that statues of
The Boy with the Leaking Boot are found in
Cleethorpes (England),
Winnipeg and
Toronto (Canada) and several cities in the United States, but his origins are obscure? - Featured 17 July 2009.
- ... that despite winning the
Football League Trophy in 2009,
Luton Town are not presently eligible to defend their title? - Featured 19 May 2009.
- ... that the
2008 Lincolnshire earthquake was the largest earthquake to hit the
UK for over twenty years? - Featured 2 March 2008.
- ... that
Skinnand is a
deserted medieval village in
Lincolnshire, and that its
Norman church was probably burned down by
Oliver Cromwell in the
English Civil War? - Featured 6 June 2008.
- ... that the
Wrawby Junction rail crash involved a
locomotive supposedly renumbered after a
psychic predicted a locomotive with the original number would be involved in a crash? - Featured 20 April 2008.
- ... that
Martin Lindsay led the 1934
British Trans-
Greenland Expedition, which set a world record for travelling 1050 mi (1680 km) using
sledges? - Featured 19 April 2007.
- ... that
Tom Hickathrift is the
East Anglian equivalent of
Jack the Giant Killer? - Featured 4 November 2006.
- ... that
James Bond author
Ian Fleming suggested that Dame
Violet Dickson should write her autobiography while he was researching a book on
Kuwait, and that her autobiographical book was eventually published but his never was? - Featured 4 March 2007.
- ... that the
Witches of Belvoir supposedly believed a
cat named Rutterkin helped them
cast spells? - Featured 22 January 2007.
- ... that the
dried remains of cattle slaughtered under anti-
BSE measures in the
UK are
burned for electricity? - Featured 18 August 2006.
- ... that the
Battle of Britain Memorial Flight contains the world's oldest airworthy survivor of the
Battle of Britain, alongside ten other historic aircraft - two of which fought over
Normandy on
D-Day? - Featured 7 July 2005.
- ... that
Dunston Pillar, a
land lighthouse south of
Lincoln, England, was built in the
18th century to aid navigation across the treacherous eastern
heathlands? - Featured 20 October 2004.
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