TELL US SOMETHING ABOUT WHERE YOU LIVE....

And, it takes forever and a day to get too anywhere :mad:[/QUOTE]

More time to enjoy your fabulous county then:thumbsup:
 
Killin......what can I say, based on the west end of Loch Tay, Killin boosts the wonderful falls of dochart, once the seat of clan MacNab, Clan MacNab was ousted by the Campbell clan aka 1st earl of Braedalbane . The area today still has links to Braedalbane, in fact in the winter months I curl in the Breadalbane Province league.

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Speaking of curling @oldcarman we have a Winnipeg trophy that we contest every year, donated to our club at some point by somebody from your side of the world :)
 
I live in Torksey Lock near Lincoln, next to the village of Torksey, on the banks of the River Trent.

The name Torksey is from the Old English Turecr+eg, or "Island of a man called Turec". In the 1086 Domesday Book, the village is given as Torchesey.

  • The church has an ancient origin and was partly rebuilt in 1821 and restored in 1895. The existing church has a font of Norman origin.
  • Evidence of two earlier Saxon churches have been found on the south side of the village.
  • The parish once was the site of the Foss Nunnery of the order of Saint Benedict, endowed about 1218 by King Henry III. There is a monument in St. Peter's churchyard to Margaret de Winton, prioress of the nunnery

Torksey is a village, a township and parish which sits on the edge of the Wolds about 146 miles north of London, seven miles south of Gainsborough and nine miles west of Lincoln. The Fossdyke Canal passes just south of the village and connects to the River Trent,

The BBC tells us: Torksey Hall was built in the middle of the sixteenth century, by the wealthy JERMYN family of Suffolk, some say as a gift to an elder son, or maybe as a convenient resting place on the road to York. Whatever the reason for its building, it was to be a home for less than one hundred years before it was almost totally destroyed. The West front and part of the kitchen range is all that remains of this once impressive country house; yes, house, for it never was a Castle, nor could it have coped particularly well with any sort of attack. Maybe it was so named because of the angular projecting towers still evident today, or the crow stepped gables capping it off, giving it that crenellated 'castley' look. The Hall was constructed along the line of an earlier flood bank, close to the river but not as close as it appears today. In modern times, this area is prone to flooding every winter, the present one included. The hall was destroyed by military action during the English Civil War in the summer of 1645.

  • In 873 AD, the Danes wintered at Torskey, and were visited there by Burhred, King of Mercia, who purchased from them a short peace. These invaders settled in Lincoln and Stamford, among two of the five principal towns which they occupied, and they were not expelled until the year 941 in the reign of Edmund the Elder.
  • In World War II, a fuel depot in Torksey supplied most of the fuel for the RAF in Lincolnshire.

  • Bastardy cases would be heard in the Lincoln (Lindsey) petty session hearings.


Torksey viaduct, deck level, facing East.
Torksey Viaduct has two 130 feet (40 m) spans across the River Trent.[1] It was built between 1847 and 1849 to carry the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (Clarborough Junction-Sykes Junction branch). It is of unusual design and is regarded as the first box girder bridge.[2] It was designed by John Fowler, who had been influenced by Fairbairn and Stephenson's tubular bridges at Conwy and the Menai Straits. The unconventional tubular girder bridge was not initially accepted. After completion, it was rejected by the Board of Trade's inspector John Simmons and the design was also criticised by the Institute of Civil Engineers.[3][4] The bridge was strengthened in 1897 by adding a more conventional central truss above the deck rather than by strengthening the box.[4]


Sustrans has carried out work on the viaduct in preparation for opening it as a walk/cycle-way[5] They obtained planning permission in 2015 for the paths, which Sustrans aims to link as a walking and cycling route to connect the quiet roads east of Torksey with those west of Cottam, a village about 1.2 miles (2 km) to the west.[6]


Torksey Castle
The Grade II* listed railway viaduct over the Trent remains but it is no longer in use. The now Grade I listed 16th-century Torksey Castle was destroyed in August 1645 during the English Civil War; its remains are on the river side of the dike which separates it from dry land. Both are on the Buildings at Risk Register.[citation needed]

The Roman Foss Dyke canal joins the River Trent by way of a series of lock-gates about half a mile (800 m) south of the village.

Torksey is widely known as a Viking winter camp from an entry in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for AD872. A growing body of archaeological evidence offers the potential of placing the site in its broader chronological and spatial context. Previous work has focussed on the pottery industry associated with an Anglo-Scandinavian town or burh. Recent metal detector finds have also suggested Torksey may be an Anglo-Saxon ‘productive site’, implying that Viking occupation must be seen in the context of pre-existing Saxon inhabitation.
Fitzwilliam%20collection.jpg
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The aim of the project is to understand the role and significance of Torksey by plotting the chronological and spatial development of the various centres of activity, which have been tentatively identified through metal detecting. These include a putative Anglo-Saxon riverine ‘beach market’, the Viking winter encampment and wider trading site, the Anglo-Scandinavian burh and the Torksey ware kilns. The project has major implications for wider understanding of the Viking Great Army and its interaction with local populations, the development of Anglo-Saxon burhs, and the evolving nature of trade and industry in the early medieval period, and its connections with power and ideology.

Funding has been provided by the British Academy, the Society of Antiquaries of London, and the Robert Kiln Trust.

I apologise for copying all this info but it tells the story of out little village. Hope you like it.

Tony.
 
hard top said:
FFS Tony, you are getting as bad as Frankie....
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Well that's not the reaction I was expecting mate, more along the lines of "More Roman ruins can be found in Tony's back garden" =))=))

Tony.
 
t-tony said:
I live in Torksey Lock near Lincoln, next to the village of Torksey, on the banks of the River Trent.

The name Torksey is from the Old English Turecr+eg, or "Island of a man called Turec". In the 1086 Domesday Book, the village is given as Torchesey.

  • The church has an ancient origin and was partly rebuilt in 1821 and restored in 1895. The existing church has a font of Norman origin.
  • Evidence of two earlier Saxon churches have been found on the south side of the village.
  • The parish once was the site of the Foss Nunnery of the order of Saint Benedict, endowed about 1218 by King Henry III. There is a monument in St. Peter's churchyard to Margaret de Winton, prioress of the nunnery
Torksey is a village, a township and parish which sits on the edge of the Wolds about 146 miles north of London, seven miles south of Gainsborough and nine miles west of Lincoln. The Fossdyke Canal passes just south of the village and connects to the River Trent,

The BBC tells us: Torksey Hall was built in the middle of the sixteenth century, by the wealthy JERMYN family of Suffolk, some say as a gift to an elder son, or maybe as a convenient resting place on the road to York. Whatever the reason for its building, it was to be a home for less than one hundred years before it was almost totally destroyed. The West front and part of the kitchen range is all that remains of this once impressive country house; yes, house, for it never was a Castle, nor could it have coped particularly well with any sort of attack. Maybe it was so named because of the angular projecting towers still evident today, or the crow stepped gables capping it off, giving it that crenellated 'castley' look. The Hall was constructed along the line of an earlier flood bank, close to the river but not as close as it appears today. In modern times, this area is prone to flooding every winter, the present one included. The hall was destroyed by military action during the English Civil War in the summer of 1645.

  • In 873 AD, the Danes wintered at Torskey, and were visited there by Burhred, King of Mercia, who purchased from them a short peace. These invaders settled in Lincoln and Stamford, among two of the five principal towns which they occupied, and they were not expelled until the year 941 in the reign of Edmund the Elder.
  • In World War II, a fuel depot in Torksey supplied most of the fuel for the RAF in Lincolnshire.
  • Bastardy cases would be heard in the Lincoln (Lindsey) petty session hearings.

Torksey viaduct, deck level, facing East.
Torksey Viaduct has two 130 feet (40 m) spans across the River Trent.[1] It was built between 1847 and 1849 to carry the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (Clarborough Junction-Sykes Junction branch). It is of unusual design and is regarded as the first box girder bridge.[2] It was designed by John Fowler, who had been influenced by Fairbairn and Stephenson's tubular bridges at Conwy and the Menai Straits. The unconventional tubular girder bridge was not initially accepted. After completion, it was rejected by the Board of Trade's inspector John Simmons and the design was also criticised by the Institute of Civil Engineers.[3][4] The bridge was strengthened in 1897 by adding a more conventional central truss above the deck rather than by strengthening the box.[4]


Sustrans has carried out work on the viaduct in preparation for opening it as a walk/cycle-way[5] They obtained planning permission in 2015 for the paths, which Sustrans aims to link as a walking and cycling route to connect the quiet roads east of Torksey with those west of Cottam, a village about 1.2 miles (2 km) to the west.[6]


Torksey Castle
The Grade II* listed railway viaduct over the Trent remains but it is no longer in use. The now Grade I listed 16th-century Torksey Castle was destroyed in August 1645 during the English Civil War; its remains are on the river side of the dike which separates it from dry land. Both are on the Buildings at Risk Register.[citation needed]

The Roman Foss Dyke canal joins the River Trent by way of a series of lock-gates about half a mile (800 m) south of the village.

Torksey is widely known as a Viking winter camp from an entry in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for AD872. A growing body of archaeological evidence offers the potential of placing the site in its broader chronological and spatial context. Previous work has focussed on the pottery industry associated with an Anglo-Scandinavian town or burh. Recent metal detector finds have also suggested Torksey may be an Anglo-Saxon ‘productive site’, implying that Viking occupation must be seen in the context of pre-existing Saxon inhabitation.
Fitzwilliam%20collection.jpg
‎‎

The aim of the project is to understand the role and significance of Torksey by plotting the chronological and spatial development of the various centres of activity, which have been tentatively identified through metal detecting. These include a putative Anglo-Saxon riverine ‘beach market’, the Viking winter encampment and wider trading site, the Anglo-Scandinavian burh and the Torksey ware kilns. The project has major implications for wider understanding of the Viking Great Army and its interaction with local populations, the development of Anglo-Saxon burhs, and the evolving nature of trade and industry in the early medieval period, and its connections with power and ideology.

Funding has been provided by the British Academy, the Society of Antiquaries of London, and the Robert Kiln Trust.

I apologise for copying all this info but it tells the story of out little village. Hope you like it.

Tony.
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Didn't know there was a British civil was. I'll have to look it up. Frankie
 
t-tony said:
I live in Torksey Lock near Lincoln, next to the village of Torksey, on the banks of the River Trent.
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t-tony said:
The name Torksey is from the Old English Turecr+eg, or "Island of a man called Turec". In the 1086 Domesday Book, the village is given as Torchesey.

  • The church has an ancient origin and was partly rebuilt in 1821 and restored in 1895. The existing church has a font of Norman origin.
  • Evidence of two earlier Saxon churches have been found on the south side of the village.
  • The parish once was the site of the Foss Nunnery of the order of Saint Benedict, endowed about 1218 by King Henry III. There is a monument in St. Peter's churchyard to Margaret de Winton, prioress of the nunnery
Torksey is a village, a township and parish which sits on the edge of the Wolds about 146 miles north of London, seven miles south of Gainsborough and nine miles west of Lincoln. The Fossdyke Canal passes just south of the village and connects to the River Trent,

The BBC tells us: Torksey Hall was built in the middle of the sixteenth century, by the wealthy JERMYN family of Suffolk, some say as a gift to an elder son, or maybe as a convenient resting place on the road to York. Whatever the reason for its building, it was to be a home for less than one hundred years before it was almost totally destroyed. The West front and part of the kitchen range is all that remains of this once impressive country house; yes, house, for it never was a Castle, nor could it have coped particularly well with any sort of attack. Maybe it was so named because of the angular projecting towers still evident today, or the crow stepped gables capping it off, giving it that crenellated 'castley' look. The Hall was constructed along the line of an earlier flood bank, close to the river but not as close as it appears today. In modern times, this area is prone to flooding every winter, the present one included. The hall was destroyed by military action during the English Civil War in the summer of 1645.

  • In 873 AD, the Danes wintered at Torskey, and were visited there by Burhred, King of Mercia, who purchased from them a short peace. These invaders settled in Lincoln and Stamford, among two of the five principal towns which they occupied, and they were not expelled until the year 941 in the reign of Edmund the Elder.
  • In World War II, a fuel depot in Torksey supplied most of the fuel for the RAF in Lincolnshire.
  • Bastardy cases would be heard in the Lincoln (Lindsey) petty session hearings.

Torksey viaduct, deck level, facing East.
Torksey Viaduct has two 130 feet (40 m) spans across the River Trent.[1] It was built between 1847 and 1849 to carry the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (Clarborough Junction-Sykes Junction branch). It is of unusual design and is regarded as the first box girder bridge.[2] It was designed by John Fowler, who had been influenced by Fairbairn and Stephenson's tubular bridges at Conwy and the Menai Straits. The unconventional tubular girder bridge was not initially accepted. After completion, it was rejected by the Board of Trade's inspector John Simmons and the design was also criticised by the Institute of Civil Engineers.[3][4] The bridge was strengthened in 1897 by adding a more conventional central truss above the deck rather than by strengthening the box.[4]


Sustrans has carried out work on the viaduct in preparation for opening it as a walk/cycle-way[5] They obtained planning permission in 2015 for the paths, which Sustrans aims to link as a walking and cycling route to connect the quiet roads east of Torksey with those west of Cottam, a village about 1.2 miles (2 km) to the west.[6]


Torksey Castle
The Grade II* listed railway viaduct over the Trent remains but it is no longer in use. The now Grade I listed 16th-century Torksey Castle was destroyed in August 1645 during the English Civil War; its remains are on the river side of the dike which separates it from dry land. Both are on the Buildings at Risk Register.[citation needed]

The Roman Foss Dyke canal joins the River Trent by way of a series of lock-gates about half a mile (800 m) south of the village.

Torksey is widely known as a Viking winter camp from an entry in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for AD872. A growing body of archaeological evidence offers the potential of placing the site in its broader chronological and spatial context. Previous work has focussed on the pottery industry associated with an Anglo-Scandinavian town or burh. Recent metal detector finds have also suggested Torksey may be an Anglo-Saxon ‘productive site’, implying that Viking occupation must be seen in the context of pre-existing Saxon inhabitation.
Fitzwilliam%20collection.jpg
‎‎

The aim of the project is to understand the role and significance of Torksey by plotting the chronological and spatial development of the various centres of activity, which have been tentatively identified through metal detecting. These include a putative Anglo-Saxon riverine ‘beach market’, the Viking winter encampment and wider trading site, the Anglo-Scandinavian burh and the Torksey ware kilns. The project has major implications for wider understanding of the Viking Great Army and its interaction with local populations, the development of Anglo-Saxon burhs, and the evolving nature of trade and industry in the early medieval period, and its connections with power and ideology.

Funding has been provided by the British Academy, the Society of Antiquaries of London, and the Robert Kiln Trust.

I apologise for copying all this info but it tells the story of

Excellent write up Tony an interesting read.
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FRANKIE said:
Didn't know there was a British civil was. I'll have to look it up. Frankie
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English Civil War.....none of those Celts or Picts involved.....not that I'm old enough to remember ;)
 
t-tony said:
I live in Torksey Lock near Lincoln, next to the village of Torksey, on the banks of the River Trent.

The name Torksey is from the Old English Turecr+eg, or "Island of a man called Turec". In the 1086 Domesday Book, the village is given as Torchesey.

  • The church has an ancient origin and was partly rebuilt in 1821 and restored in 1895. The existing church has a font of Norman origin.
  • Evidence of two earlier Saxon churches have been found on the south side of the village.
  • The parish once was the site of the Foss Nunnery of the order of Saint Benedict, endowed about 1218 by King Henry III. There is a monument in St. Peter's churchyard to Margaret de Winton, prioress of the nunnery
Torksey is a village, a township and parish which sits on the edge of the Wolds about 146 miles north of London, seven miles south of Gainsborough and nine miles west of Lincoln. The Fossdyke Canal passes just south of the village and connects to the River Trent,

The BBC tells us: Torksey Hall was built in the middle of the sixteenth century, by the wealthy JERMYN family of Suffolk, some say as a gift to an elder son, or maybe as a convenient resting place on the road to York. Whatever the reason for its building, it was to be a home for less than one hundred years before it was almost totally destroyed. The West front and part of the kitchen range is all that remains of this once impressive country house; yes, house, for it never was a Castle, nor could it have coped particularly well with any sort of attack. Maybe it was so named because of the angular projecting towers still evident today, or the crow stepped gables capping it off, giving it that crenellated 'castley' look. The Hall was constructed along the line of an earlier flood bank, close to the river but not as close as it appears today. In modern times, this area is prone to flooding every winter, the present one included. The hall was destroyed by military action during the English Civil War in the summer of 1645.

  • In 873 AD, the Danes wintered at Torskey, and were visited there by Burhred, King of Mercia, who purchased from them a short peace. These invaders settled in Lincoln and Stamford, among two of the five principal towns which they occupied, and they were not expelled until the year 941 in the reign of Edmund the Elder.
  • In World War II, a fuel depot in Torksey supplied most of the fuel for the RAF in Lincolnshire.
  • Bastardy cases would be heard in the Lincoln (Lindsey) petty session hearings.

Torksey viaduct, deck level, facing East.
Torksey Viaduct has two 130 feet (40 m) spans across the River Trent.[1] It was built between 1847 and 1849 to carry the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (Clarborough Junction-Sykes Junction branch). It is of unusual design and is regarded as the first box girder bridge.[2] It was designed by John Fowler, who had been influenced by Fairbairn and Stephenson's tubular bridges at Conwy and the Menai Straits. The unconventional tubular girder bridge was not initially accepted. After completion, it was rejected by the Board of Trade's inspector John Simmons and the design was also criticised by the Institute of Civil Engineers.[3][4] The bridge was strengthened in 1897 by adding a more conventional central truss above the deck rather than by strengthening the box.[4]


Sustrans has carried out work on the viaduct in preparation for opening it as a walk/cycle-way[5] They obtained planning permission in 2015 for the paths, which Sustrans aims to link as a walking and cycling route to connect the quiet roads east of Torksey with those west of Cottam, a village about 1.2 miles (2 km) to the west.[6]


Torksey Castle
The Grade II* listed railway viaduct over the Trent remains but it is no longer in use. The now Grade I listed 16th-century Torksey Castle was destroyed in August 1645 during the English Civil War; its remains are on the river side of the dike which separates it from dry land. Both are on the Buildings at Risk Register.[citation needed]

The Roman Foss Dyke canal joins the River Trent by way of a series of lock-gates about half a mile (800 m) south of the village.

Torksey is widely known as a Viking winter camp from an entry in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for AD872. A growing body of archaeological evidence offers the potential of placing the site in its broader chronological and spatial context. Previous work has focussed on the pottery industry associated with an Anglo-Scandinavian town or burh. Recent metal detector finds have also suggested Torksey may be an Anglo-Saxon ‘productive site’, implying that Viking occupation must be seen in the context of pre-existing Saxon inhabitation.
Fitzwilliam%20collection.jpg
‎‎

The aim of the project is to understand the role and significance of Torksey by plotting the chronological and spatial development of the various centres of activity, which have been tentatively identified through metal detecting. These include a putative Anglo-Saxon riverine ‘beach market’, the Viking winter encampment and wider trading site, the Anglo-Scandinavian burh and the Torksey ware kilns. The project has major implications for wider understanding of the Viking Great Army and its interaction with local populations, the development of Anglo-Saxon burhs, and the evolving nature of trade and industry in the early medieval period, and its connections with power and ideology.

Funding has been provided by the British Academy, the Society of Antiquaries of London, and the Robert Kiln Trust.

I apologise for copying all this info but it tells the story of out little village. Hope you like it.

Tony.
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Interesting read. Amazing what history you can get hold of if you look.:thumbsup:
 
In no particular order of addresses and far to many to Google local info on;

Cotswolds x 1
Hertfordshire x 1
Wiltshire x 1
Dorset x 1
Kent x 1
Royal Berkshire x 2
Oxfordshire x 2
Suffolk x 2
Norfolk x 3
Cambridgeshire x 1
Lincolnshire x 1
Shetlands x 2
Germany x 5
Holland x 2
Cumbria x 1
Barrack Blocks x 6

All great places with lots to see and do.
 
Andy McDonnell said:
In no particular order of addresses and far to many to Google local info on;

Cotswolds x 1
Hertfordshire x 1
Wiltshire x 1
Dorset x 1
Kent x 1
Royal Berkshire x 2
Oxfordshire x 2
Suffolk x 2
Norfolk x 3
Cambridgeshire x 1
Lincolnshire x 1
Shetlands x 2
Germany x 5
Holland x 2
Cumbria x 1
Barrack Blocks x 6

All great places with lots to see and do.
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We should see how many more counties of the UK we can get. I can add

Lancashire x 2
West Yorkshire x 4
Warwickshire x 2


Oh and France x 1 & Germany x 2 but last time I checked they weren't counties =))
 
Gail said:
We should see how many more counties of the UK we can get. I can add

Lancashire x 2
West Yorkshire x 4
Warwickshire x 2


Oh and France x 1 & Germany x 2 but last time I checked they weren't counties =))
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Agreed @Gail I'd be amazed if we couldn't cover the whole of the UK.
 
Brian H said:
Killin......what can I say, based on the west end of Loch Tay, Killin boosts the wonderful falls of dochart, once the seat of clan MacNab, Clan MacNab was ousted by the Campbell clan aka 1st earl of Braedalbane . The area today still has links to Braedalbane, in fact in the winter months I curl in the Breadalbane Province league.

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Speaking of curling @oldcarman we have a Winnipeg trophy that we contest every year, donated to our club at some point by somebody from your side of the world :)
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Stunning!!!
 
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