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All About Lincolnshire ....

Lincolnshire is a beautiful county (actually three counties) which runs alongside England’s eastern coast. As with the whole of Britain, its beauty lies in the variety of landscape to be found. In this case that landscape tends towards the soft and inhabitable. The soil is generally very fertile and is covered in cereals, potatoes, pigs and flowers. There is also a good sprinkling of woodland and pasture. People think that Lincolnshire is flat but this is not the reality. Much of it is flat which allows the walker to enjoy the great expanses of sky which stretch above but other areas are full of rolling hills and pretty valleys with their share of hamlets and towns on their slopes.

There are many Orthodox treasures:-

Lincoln. (Population; 81,987) Monthly Liturgy on the second Saturday of each month in St. Botolph’s Church. St. Paulinus of York founded a Cathedral here. It is an old Roman retirement city! A busy and beautiful city dominated by the Anglican Cathedral and the Castle.

Louth. (14,248) A Liturgy served here every Sunday at 10.30 am. St. Aethelheard’s old monastery. Several Holy wells nearby - Fr. Philip and Chad Lyon recently found the site of an old rag well.

Caistor. (2,502) The reputed burial place of St. Simon the Zealot. It is an old Roman fort.

Crowland. (3,292) The old abbey walls still stand where the father of English monasticism, St. Guthlac, set up his cell in the middle of a marsh. Long since drained this fertile spot was the scene of many saintly monastic endeavours and is the place where over a hundred Orthodox monks were martyred by the Danish invaders.

Hibaldstowe. A small village containing the relics of St. Hibald the Abbot of Bardney.

Boston. (26,592). This is where Saints Botolph and Adolph set off for their missionary journeys in Europe. Also whence the "Pilgrim Fathers" went west in search of authentic Christianity (their prison cells can still be visited).

Barton upon Humber. (9,422). St. Chad founded a monastery here.

Bardney. In the grass of a bull infested paddock one can see the foundations of the famous monastery which once contained the relics of St. Oswald, St. Ostrythe the Queen, St. Ailred the King and Abbot and St. Werburgh the Queen.

Also; Lindsey, Partney, Stallingborough, Threckingham, Tatham and West Halton.

                    Very few of these Saints have services, icons or even Troparia and Kontakia written for them.

                    Holy Fathers and Mothers amongst the Saints of Lincolnshire Pray for us!

                    As well as these places there are many other notable places;

Grimsby. (Population 95,540). A fishing port.

Cleethorpes. (35,837) A seaside town.

Grantham. (32,083) The birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton and of Lady Thatcher

Scunthorpe. (70,907) An industrial town which still retains its village roots and beautiful parks.

Stamford (17494), Gainsborough (17,851), Skegness (16355), Spalding (19,561).

The message appears to be that the harvest is plentiful but the workers few. Pray that the Lord will send harvesters! There are hundreds of potential sites for missions, monasteries etc. and there are not even the resources for a full time priest yet!

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