Beckfield House faces onto Station Road. Facing the house to the south is the Recreation Ground, bought by Beckfield's owner Mr Robert Wright to prevent buildings spoiling his outlook. He let the field to the village for a peppercorn rent of 1/- a year.

Mr Wright bought the house in 1918, he died there in 1933 and his widow died in 1956. The house was sold in 1957 and is now an old people's home.

This photograph was probable taken in the 1930s.

"The Butcher and Beast is unique - being the only pub in the country with that name"

https://www.butcherandbeast.co.uk/ 

The name seems to have changed? In White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1856 there is a listing "Day Robert, vict. Bull Inn" 

In Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1885 it is "Marshall Edward, Bull & Butcher P.H" and in 1919 "Cooke Geo. W. Butcher & Beast P.H".

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An early view of the back of the farmhouse at Clarke's Charity Farm.

This property was left by Sir Edward Clarke to provide funds for a 'Bread Charity'.

The house faces south onto High Street with the Beck running across the north end of the yard - hence the ducks!

A view of the farmyard with the hay harvest coming home.

At this time there was a low hedge on the north side of the house enclosing a small garden.

In the early twentieth century the farm was in the tenancy of Mr Drakes.

Council houses built 1950-51 on the north side of Almond Avenue, parallel to Fen Road.

The open space in the right foreground is part of that left for the children's play area.

The field had been under barley the previous year; the crop was cut by a horse-drawn binder and the stooks carried to Abraham Bell's Manor Farm by horse and cart.

One of the horses was called "Duke".

This photograph was taken on 7 August 1954 and shows the post-Second World War fleet of Curtis's lorries in Mill Field. The furthest eight appear to be ex-army vehicles.

This is now the site of the Primary School with, in the background, houses on the south side of Washingborough Road.

Pupils of Garratt's Boys School in the 1920s.

The Master is Mr Simmons.

The chalkboard appears to carry the lettering "Heighington Endowed School 1922".

"A notable unlisted building is Heighington Hall, an 18th-century mansion with gardens designed by the noted landscape architect Edward Milner"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heighington,_Lincolnshire 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states "Heighington Hall, the property and residence of Digby Charles Legard esq. stands in grounds tastefully laid out"

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Heighington House in the early twentieth century was run as a Girls' Finishing School where daughters of wealthy farmers 'learnt enough French for a menu, deportment and conversazioné', according to one ex-pupil.

It was originally a farmhouse and bears on a front quoin a sundial with the words 'William Arden fecit'. Arden was a farmer from Bassingham who retired here and built the stone front on the old brick house.

The High Street looking west towards the Post Office corner. The telegraph pole on the RHS stands in front of the railings of the Village Hall and pub carpark.

Just past the Butcher and Beast is Hufton's Blacksmith shop, by this time it sold Shell petrol from a tank under the floor, through a long arm over the pavement.

The stone houses past this, with railings in front, were taken down in the 1950s. During the War soldiers had been billeted in their long attic range, where perhaps the boarders at the Boys' School had slept.

The house at the end of the view was the School Master�s House (owned by Garrett's Charity), the house to its left was the house and surgery of three consecutive families of doctors from about 1927 to the early 1990s.

Some of the earliest motor lorries belonging to the watermill in Heighington.

The man second to the left is Bert Scott.

Marked on OS 25 inch map published 1906 as "Park Mill (Flour)". 

There is a listing in Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 "Roe Frederick, miller (water & steam)"

Now converted to private accommodation.

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Park View House, Number One High Street.

The right hand end of the side by the road is three storeys high with the rafters of a much steeper roof still remaining under the present flatter Georgian roof.

The Dovecot on the far left is over the Bull Pen.

Did the sound of the doves give a calming background for the bull and mask sudden noises which might alarm him?

The farm buildings (Town End Farm) are now separate private dwellings. They were built to a Victorian 'High Farming' pattern; it was the largest farm in the parish.

Red brick, green tiled front of Heighington Post Office, the double-fronted building on the left.

Its stone front had been demolished in the early 1920s when "The cart got away with the "oss" coming down the hill opposite.

The Robinson family moved from their Monks Road shop and re-built the front and ran it as the Post Office and general store for two generations.

The adjoining cottage now has the left hand side door blocked up.

Branston and Heighington Station looking south. The bridge carries the new road to Branston over the line, the old Chapel Lane being diverted by a sharp right-angle bend to the left at the railway sidings and station.

Chapel Lane was re-named Station Road and the Bridge is Station Hill.

There was a staircase, for the convenience of Branston passengers, up onto the Bridge from this platform.

Station buildings viewed from the west, across the line.

This Station is typical of all those along this line which was built to be especially strong to carry the heavy coal trains from the Midlands and the North to London so the passenger traffic on the main line was not delayed.

Station staff just before the station closed.

Left George Creasey, porter; centre Mr Rogers, the last station master; right Len Rasen, junior porter.

Mr Rogers moved from the Station House to the right- hand side stone cottage opposite the Flagpole.

Len Rasen continued to work for British Rail and later moved to Chesterfield.

Notice of station closure following the Beeching Report.

The passenger service (fare, 3d to Lincoln, six minutes) had been closed earlier but the line had remained open and busy.

The Station site is now under new private housing, despite local efforts to re-open it for passengers.

Mr Edward Barker's pedigree Lincolnshire Longwool sheep of Town End Farm.

The sheep are looking north in the field known as Moor Heads.

The houses face onto Park Lane. The field is part of The Parks which was enclosed as park land in the twelfth century.

This is Heighington's Chapel of Ease before 1863 when it still served as the Boys' School for local villages.

The Rector feared that it might be mistaken for a Methodist Chapel, at a time when these brick chapels were appearing widely in Lincolnshire, so he had it faced in stone.

He also fitted the building with pews and enhanced it with an east window of stained glass.

Two school rooms for the boys were built on the north side with a connecting door into the Chapel so that the right to the Charity Fund for the boys to be taught in the Chapel of Ease was retained.

The building existed in 1500 and probably long before and was originally thatched. It is still used as Heighington's Church.

The Chapel of Ease at Heighington, with the chimney from the boiler room sticking up at the back.

Initially the Chapel and each school room had open fires, but later central heating radiators were served from a boiler room.

The playground, now the carpark, is north of the right hand side stone wall.

The tower - odd with a single decorated turret and substantial angle buttresses - was rebuilt or at any rate restored in 1865 by Michael Drury.

July 2018

View of the church from the south-west.

July 2018

View from the south.

July 2018

Plaque recording the dedication of the church clock to the villagers who served in the First World War. The clock has a single face on the west side of the tower.

July 2018

Carved stone ball flower decoration as the stop of drip mould over nave window.

July 2018

Memorial in front of the church tower.

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Station Road looking east towards the village from the right-angle bend onto Station Hill.

The Grange on the left hand side, then Beckfield (the Beck runs behind it, parallel to the road), and the view is closed by the old Methodist Chapel School Room.

Heighington Beck, west from the High Street to the three-storey watermill.

Mr Frank East lived in the semi-detached brick house on the left, built by his (stone mason) father on the site of his old thatched stone house in spring 1893.

The October Village Feast had been held on the old site as building work could not start in the winter because of the effect of frost on the mortar.

Listed in White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1856 "Jackson George, vict. Turk's Head".

And in Kelly's Directory 1885 "Marshall Eliza (Mrs.), Turk's Head P.H. & brewer"

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Heighington Village Hall was built of corrugated iron in 1898 after fundraising by the Ladies Sewing Circle.

There are orchard trees at the back. The front car park is shared by the 'Butcher & Beast' Pub next door.

This photograph shows it in 1995 after being re-painted by two prisoners from Morton Hall Open Prison, Swinderby, their transport to the site being provided by Village Hall Committee members.

Community water standpost retained for interest.

Very similar standposts by Glenfield & Kennedy Ltd, Kilmarnock  in Aubourn, Bassingham, Haddington, Navenby and other settlements.

This example on High Street nearly opposite the junction with Beck Lane. 

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Back view of Heighington Mill over its pond.

The water runs under the building. It is now a private residence and the millstream can be viewed inside through a glass panel in the floor.

"Methodist chapel. 1815"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062547

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Lincoln Circuits Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson (Revised October 2000) it is stated that :-

"A Society was formed in 1815 and worshipped in a barn, now converted into a house behind houses in Chapel Lane.

A chapel was erected, or acquired, in 1820, nearly opposite the present chapel, and now in use as a Sunday school.

A new chapel, in Station Road at its junction with Chapel Lane, was erected in 1848/9.

In 1906 a porch was added and the chapel re-pewed.

A Grade II listed building it is still in use with a membership of 34" 

Chapel has now closed to worship and the building is occupied by Skeet Print a print management company.

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