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A Virtual Walking Tour of Kirton and Cake at The Old King’s Head.
Thanks to funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and part of The Old King’s Head Project, Heritage Lincolnshire have been working with some incredible volunteers to develop a Virtual…
Read MoreWalking Tour of Kirton and Cake at The Old King’s Head.
Thanks to funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and part of the Old King’s Head Project, Heritage Lincolnshire has been working with some incredible volunteers to develop a Walking…
Read MoreWalking Tour of Kirton and Cake at The Old King’s Head.
Thanks to funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and part of the Old King’s Head Project, Heritage Lincolnshire has been working with some incredible volunteers to develop a Walking…
Read MoreWalking Tour of Kirton and Cake at The Old King’s Head.
Thanks to funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and part of the Old King’s Head Project, Heritage Lincolnshire has been working with some incredible volunteers to develop a Walking…
Read MoreWalking Tour of Kirton and Cake at The Old King’s Head.
Thanks to funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and part of the Old King’s Head Project, Heritage Lincolnshire has been working with some incredible volunteers to develop a Walking…
Read MoreWalking Tour of Kirton and Cake at The Old King’s Head.
Thanks to funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and part of the Old King’s Head Project, Heritage Lincolnshire has been working with some incredible volunteers to develop a Walking…
Read MoreWalking Tour of Kirton and Cake at The Old King’s Head.
Thanks to funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and part of the Old King’s Head Project, Heritage Lincolnshire has been working with some incredible volunteers to develop a Walking…
Read MoreWalking Tour of Kirton and Cake at The Old King’s Head.
Thanks to funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and part of the Old King’s Head Project, Heritage Lincolnshire has been working with some incredible volunteers to develop a Walking…
Read MoreWalking Tour of Kirton and Cake at The Old King’s Head.
Thanks to funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and part of the Old King’s Head Project, Heritage Lincolnshire has been working with some incredible volunteers to develop a Walking…
Read MoreWalking Tour of Kirton and Cake at The Old King’s Head.
Thanks to funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and part of the Old King’s Head Project, Heritage Lincolnshire has been working with some incredible volunteers to develop a Walking…
Read MoreWalking Tour of Kirton and Cake at The Old King’s Head.
Thanks to funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and part of the Old King’s Head Project, Heritage Lincolnshire has been working with some incredible volunteers to develop a Walking…
Read MoreWalking Tour of Kirton and Cake at The Old King’s Head.
Thanks to funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and part of the Old King’s Head Project, Heritage Lincolnshire has been working with some incredible volunteers to develop a Walking…
Read MoreWalking Tour of Kirton and Cake at The Old King’s Head.
Thanks to funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and part of the Old King’s Head Project, Heritage Lincolnshire has been working with some incredible volunteers to develop a Walking…
Read MoreWalking Tour of Kirton and Cake at The Old King’s Head.
Thanks to funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and part of the Old King’s Head Project, Heritage Lincolnshire has been working with some incredible volunteers to develop a Walking…
Read MoreThe Old King’s Head welcomes back the Smithbone family
Patricia Smithbone was a child resident at The King’s Head. She lived with her father Fred Smithbone and her mother Annie Smithbone. Fred was the landlord except during the war…
Read MoreNew Walking Brochure released to celebrate popular Walking Festival.
NEW WALKING BROCHURE RELEASED TO CELEBRATE POPULAR WALKING FESTIVAL Read on to find out how to get your copy for free! The legacy of a popular local festival will live…
Read MoreThe Lincolnshire Buff Chicken Cup
The Longwool Collection
Read MoreThe Lincolnshire Buff Chicken Cushion
The Longwool Collection
Read MoreThe Old King’s Head and Cake Walking Tour – 29th October 2021
The Old King’s Head and Cake Walking Tour – 29th October 2021
The Old King’s Head and Cake Walking Tour – 28th November 2021
The Old King’s Head and Cake Walking Tour – 28th November 2021
The Old King’s Head and Cake Walking Tour – 2nd November 2021
The Old King’s Head and Cake Walking Tour – 2nd November 2021
The Old King’s Head and Cake Walking Tour – 21st November 2021
The Old King’s Head and Cake Walking Tour – 21st November 2021
The Old King’s Head and Cake Walking Tour – 19th November 2021
The Old King’s Head and Cake Walking Tour – For Duplicating
Join us for a walking tour where you’ll explore and discover Kirton, the Old King’s Head and then afterwards enjoy some cake!
Read MoreThe Longwool Sheep Cup
The Longwool Collection
Read MoreThe Longwool Sheep Cushion
The Longwool Collection
Read MoreThe Lincoln Red Cow Cup
The Longwool Collection
Read MoreThe Lincoln Red Cow Cushion
The Longwool Collection
Read MoreThe Curly Coat Pig Cup
The Longwool Collection
Read MoreThe Curly Coat Pig Cushion
The Longwool Collection
Read MoreTrainee Six month Blog by Katherine Briggs
This blog was supposed to mark the end of my six-month trainee placement and should contain all my sombre closing sentiments about how it’s come about too quickly or act…
Read MoreLocal Artist supports The Old King’s Head
The Old King’s Head is working with two local artists to support selling their work, as well as helping us to display some beautiful artwork throughout the property for our…
Read MoreExclusive Launch Evening for local stakeholders at The Old King’s Head
On the evening of Friday 1st October 2o21, Heritage Lincolnshire hosted an exclusive evening at The Old King’s Head to celebrate the first day of opening for the cafe. The…
Read MoreBuild for the Future: East Midlands Exhibition 2022
Build for the Future: East Midlands Exhibition 2022 We returned for our third event on Tuesday 17th May 2022, hosted by Heritage Lincolnshire and Archaeological Project Services, and working in…
Read MorePrevious CEO returns to The Old King’s Head
On Friday 3rd September 2021, we welcomed back our previous CEO, Liz Bates to The Old King’s Head. Liz has not seen the project that she started over 5 years…
Read MorePre-Order Your South Lincolnshire Walking Festival Legacy Brochure
Now Available! The South Lincolnshire Walking Festival Legacy Brochure The South Lincolnshire Walking Festival Legacy Brochure features four popular heritage walks from the festival which ran from 2015 to 2019.…
Read MoreIndustrial
Industrial building Heckington Windmill Heckington Windmill is the only eight-sailed tower windmill still standing in the United Kingdom with its sails intact. This Grade I listed windmill was built in…
Read MoreTraineeship Blog – Katherine Briggs
It’s already here! The halfway mark of my traineeship with Heritage Lincolnshire has been, and gone, and it has absolutely flown by. But, not to sound cringey, time does fly…
Read MoreTrainee Blog – Kate Tyler
In 2021 Kate Tyler joined the Heritage Lincolnshire team as an HES Digital Heritage Trainee. Here Kate tells us about her time with us so far, and all the exciting…
Read MoreThe Greyfriars – the Franciscans in Lincolnshire
The Greyfriars building off Freeschool Lane in Lincoln is one of the very few friary remains in Britain and one of the best preserved. The Orders of Friars first appeared…
Read MoreBuild for the Future: East Midlands Exhibition 2021
Build for the Future: East Midlands Exhibition 2021 Professional Photos from Build for the Future 2021’s event Archaeological Project Services apsarchaeology.co.uk Archaeological Project Services (APS) are a long established commercial…
Read MoreMeet our new trainee – Katherine Briggs
Historic Environment Skills is a four year long project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. A total of 21 bursaries are being offered across the heritage sector, delivered through project…
Read MoreSkegness Town Deal
Transformational multi-million-pound projects for Boston, Mablethorpe, and Skegness have been given the go-ahead by the government. Heritage Lincolnshire are proud to be delivering Town Centre Grant Schemes in all three…
Read MoreAdditional Heritage Development Trusts awards announced
The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) has announced three additional awards in its Heritage Development Trust (HDT) programme, to organisations leading heritage-led regeneration projects in towns in England and Heritage Lincolnshire…
Read MoreBusiness
Business building The Old King’s Head The Old King’s Head is a Grade II Listed building and is a rare example of a 16th century medieval coaching inn, located in…
Read MoreDigital Workshops for Organisers
To help you get the most out of your event we ran four free support sessions in the Spring. These were designed to help you to plan and deliver…
Read MoreRepair of Hussey Tower
Built by Richard Bennyngton in the mid 15th century, Hussey Tower in Boston is the remains of a once great manor house. After Bennygton’s death in about 1475 the house…
Read MoreThe Old King’s Head, Kirton
The Old King’s Head The 16th Century Tudor Coaching inn is a rare example of the Fenland Artisan Mannerist style, a building technique which reveals a unique history of the…
Read MoreExciting New Tender Opportunity – Marketing and Branding
Development of Brand, Marketing & Online Presence for Income Diversification of Heritage Lincolnshire into the Holiday Letting Market Heritage Lincolnshire are shortly due to open our latest Building Conservation…
Read MoreCase studies
Case studies Over the years we have developed and worked on many projects within the Trust and our charity has been recognised for this. A huge number of the museums…
Read MoreCurrent projects
Current projects Find out more about the current projects Heritage Lincolnshire are involved in below. Our most recent Buildings Preservation projects are; The Old King’s Head in Kirton and Greyfriars…
Read MoreTestimonials
Testimonials ”Heritage Lincolnshire (HTL) were initially engaged by Worksop Priory and Gatehouse Community Trust to provide a programme of activities to increase community engagement in our long term aims of…
Read MoreAwards and accreditations
Awards: Greater Lincolnshire Construction and Property Awards 2022 finalist for the The Old King’s Head project in the Development Project (Under £5million) award category. Flora Murray award from The Society…
Read MoreAbout Us
About us Heritage Lincolnshire are a local charity working to conserve the rich history of the county for the benefit of people who live and work in the area. “Heritage…
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As a charity, Heritage Lincolnshire relies on the support of our partners, volunteers, members and donors to successfully achieve our objectives for heritage and for people in Lincolnshire. Your support…
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Heritage Lincolnshire a local charity working to conserve the rich history of the County for the benefit of people who live and work in the area. We work to advance…
Read MoreJoin Us As An Individual
Are You Ready to Make a Big Difference? When you join Heritage Lincolnshire, we’ll help you to get hands-on with heritage in Lincolnshire As a key supporter, we’ll send…
Read MoreOne Day in Bolingbroke Castle
A reminiscent piece by Heritage Lincolnshire’s Jim Snee. It is over twenty years since I first visited Bolingbroke Castle, and yet the experience remains very vivid. It had taken me…
Read MoreLincolnshire’s towns – the meaning of place
Lincolnshire County Council has within its Planning Services the Historic Places Team. This team provides advice on development and its likely impact upon heritage assets. This advice is based upon…
Read More400-year anniversary of the sailing of the Mayflower
2020 marked a significant historic anniversary. In September 2020, it was 400 years since a group of people, who would become known as Pilgrims, left their final stop in Plymouth…
Read MoreLincolnshire’s First Flight by Jim Snee
Lincolnshire has often been referred to as bomber county, in reference to the large number of airfields and airbases that have been built on its green and largely flat land.…
Read MoreHussey Tower in the Rain by Jim Snee
It often puzzles people the things that archaeologists get excited about. They see us talking in an agitated manner and bobbing up and down in excitement and they assume we…
Read MoreLincolnshire’s Last Hunter-Gatherers by Jim Snee
It is commonly asserted that society evolved from hunter gathering to farming and then to the industrial. Like many common assertions this is an oversimplification. One of the great complexities…
Read MoreOne Day in Bolingbroke Castle by Jim Snee
It is over twenty years since I first visited Bolingbroke Castle, and yet the experience remains very vivid. It had taken me a little while to find it. I had…
Read MoreLincolnshire’s First Pirates by Jim Snee
In November 2019, I was asked to be a guest on the Jeremy Vine show to discuss the recently returned Tealby Cannon. I was particularly interested in the Cannon as…
Read MoreLincolnshire’s First Redcoats by Jim Snee
It is commonly asserted that prior to the introduction of khaki, the British infantryman followed the uniform established by Cromwell’s New Model Army and wore a scarlet coat. Like many…
Read MoreThe Old King’s Head Regeneration Reaches New Milestone
Excitement is starting to build amongst our team and the local community in Kirton near Boston as renovation work on our project at The Old King’s Head has now passed…
Read MoreHeritage Lincolnshire Thanks Lottery Players for Vital Funding
23rd November 2019 This week is a big milestone for The National Lottery as they’re celebrating their 25th anniversary and have launched their Thanks to You campaign to mark the…
Read More#Thankstoyou – Volunteers
In additional to helping landscape and townscapes, money from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, funded through every National Lottery ticket you buy, is also channelled directly into volunteer groups. Anyone…
Read More#Thankstoyou – Towns
If you walk into town, you have probably seen the empty and boarded up shops that are becoming an increasingly familiar sight. But if you are a National Lottery player,…
Read MoreThe Old King’s Head Free Courses
Join us for some free courses as part of our Old King’s Head project funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Booking is essential for all courses. To book please…
Read MoreLatest Heritage Lincolnshire Project Takes Shape!
We’re delighted to announce that the first major renovation on our latest project – The Old King’s Head in Kirton near Boston – roof is now complete! As part of…
Read MoreHow Money from the National Lottery has Transformed Lincolnshire’s Leading Heritage Charity
Following the withdrawal of our annual funding agreement with Lincolnshire County Council, the Heritage Lottery Fund supported us by helping us to find a new business model which would be…
Read MoreHow Heritage Lincolnshire gets Involved across the County
The Heritage Lottery Fund have created so many opportunities for the public to enjoy! Our charity is focused on conserving the rich heritage of Lincolnshire. This is for the benefit…
Read MoreThe Unfortunate True Story of John Hussey
Hussey Tower, after remaining quietly for centuries on [now] Skirbeck Road in Boston has become the focus of scrutiny in recent weeks. Heritage Lincolnshire’s phone has been ringing off the…
Read MoreHeritage Lincolnshire to put the Old King’s Head in Kirton back on the map thanks to National Lottery Players
The Heritage Lottery Fund has offered a grant of £1,987,300
Read MorePlace Names
Discovering the Medieval Origins of your Village Topic 1: Place Names The first thing to look at is the place name. The origin and meaning of a place name, whether…
Read MoreLocal Community Pull Together to Save The Old King’s Head
We raised £5,226 in our community based crowdfunding campaign to save the Old King’s Head!
Read MoreAutumn Newsletter: Old King’s Head Edition
Hello, friends, fans, families and familiars, Our Newsletter has been released, and you may have noticed a slight spooky tone… At the beginning of next month, that’s 5th October 2017,…
Read MoreLights, Camera, Action at the Old King’s Head
Investing in Lincolnshire’s young talent to Save The Old King’s Head!
Read MoreCivil War
Topic 7: Civil War Charles I attempted to raise an army from the county trained bands for his war in Scotland, which ended in humiliation for the King. The political…
Read MoreMustering Forces
Topic 6: Mustering Forces During the reigns of Edward VI and Mary troops were raised in support of the monarchs, against rebels in the north and east of England. The…
Read MoreLincolnshire Rising
Gunpowder Warfare Topic 4: Lincolnshire Rising One series of events that did have a direct impact on Lincolnshire was the Lincolnshire Rising in 1536 and the Pilgrimage of Grace that followed…
Read MoreWars in Scotland and France
Topic 2: Wars in Scotland and France The reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII were dominated by wars in Scotland and France. Whilst these did not directly impact the county…
Read MoreFifteenth Century Conflicts
Medieval Warfare Topic 6: Fifteenth Century Conflicts In the fifteenth century, two conflicts appear to have affected Lincolnshire at the same time. Wars of the Roses The dynastic conflict known as…
Read MoreRevolutions
Topic 1: Revolutions The latter half of the 18th century saw a period of social and economic turmoil that erupted into violent revolution and war across the world. Britain had…
Read MoreThe influence of the natural landscape
Topic 2: The influence of the natural landscape When we look at the landscape, we are seeing the effects of natural processes (the natural landscape) and the effects of people…
Read MoreHussey Tower
Hussey Tower Built in around 1450 by Richard Benyngton, collector of customs and excise in Boston, which was at the time, the wealthiest port in England outside London. Once the…
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