Friskney Eaudyke

Friskney Eaudyke is a settlement in the civil parish of Friskney, and the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is 11 miles (20 km) north-east from Boston and 30 miles (50 km) east-southeast from the city and county town of Lincoln.

Friskney Eaudyke
Wesleyan Centenary Chapel, Friskney Eaudyke
Friskney Eaudyke Location within Lincolnshire
Population	1,563
OS grid reference	TF473559
• London	105 mi (169 km) S
Civil parish	Friskney
District	East Lindsey
Shire county	Lincolnshire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	BOSTON
Postcode district	PE22
Dialling code	01754
Police	Lincolnshire
Fire	Lincolnshire
Ambulance	East Midlands

Friskney Eaudyke is 1 mile (1.6 km) east from the parish village of Friskney, and the same distance north-east from the parish hamlet of Fold Hill. The A52 road, which runs locally from Boston to Skegness, is 800 yards (700 m) south-east.[1]

The settlement is centred on the northwest-to-southeast Eau Dyke Road, between Low Road at the north-west and the staggered junction with Sickling Lane and Chapel Lane at the south-east. Friskney Eaudyke comprises detached and semidetached houses, farms with associated buildings, a farm produce distribution company, a balloon supply & event company, a garage services company, and Grade II listed buildings.[1]

The listed Bridge Farmhouse, a late 18th-century two-storey red brick house, is on Low Road south from the junction with Eau Dyke Road.[2] Over the junction and further north on Low Road is Ash Tree Farmhouse, a mid-18th to mid-19th-century gabled red brick house.[3] At the north on Mill Lane off Low Road, and near the border with Wainfleet St Mary, is Hoyle's Windmill, of three-storeys and today converted to a storehouse by the addition of an attached building. Largely early 19th-century, it dates from 1730.[4][5] At the south-west on Chapel Lane is the Grade II* listed 19th-century red brick Wesleyan Centenary Chapel, dating to 1839.[6][7]

In 1871 "Ancient British" pottery, and fragments of bone were found by workmen on Eaudyke Road at the south-east of the settlement.[8] Kelly's Directory in 1885 noted the 1871 archeological finds by workmen as they were building the infants' school at 'Eaudyke'. The directory records a schoolmistress, and the Wesleyan chapel which it said was built in 1832.[9] The listed trades at 'Eaudyke' in the 1933 Kelly's Directory included five farmers, a potato merchant, a saddler, a beer retailer, a shopkeeper, a grocer, a butcher, a baker, and a motor engineer.[10]