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- ... that 4,920 Iron Age pellet moulds were uncovered at Sleaford, one of the largest deposits of its kind in Europe? - Featured 25 June 2015
- ... that since production ceased at Bass Maltings in Sleaford, the complex has been used for rearing chickens? - Featured 21 April 2015
- ... that Westholme House, a neo-Gothic mansion in Sleaford, became a library after World War II and is now part of a school? - Featured 10 April 2015
- ... that Cecil and Frank Rhodes learnt how to ride a horse while staying with their aunt at the Manor House in Sleaford? - Featured 25 March 2015
- ... that Canadian novelist Marsha Canham became inspired to write Through a Dark Mist after experiencing a recurring dream of two men disguised as monks rescuing a damsel in distress? - Featured 20 March 2014
- ... that until 1989, the village of Broadholme in Lincolnshire was located in Nottinghamshire? - Featured 3 August 2013
- ... that St John the Evangelist's Church, Corby Glen ' has extensive early 15th-century wall paintings? - Featured 21 July 2013
- ... that during the Antinomian Controversy, Anne Hutchinson (pictured) withstood two separate trials without counsel before being banished from Massachusetts?- Featured 9 July 2012
- ... that St Denys' Church, Sleaford (pictured) has one of the oldest stone broach spires in England and an altar rail designed by Sir Christopher Wren? - Featured 5 June 2011
- ... that up to 200 people played a game of football on land near Brothertoft, Lincolnshire, in the 1760s as a protest against enclosure? - Featured 23 April 2011
- ... that the Lincoln Thornton Manuscript, compiled around 1430-1440 by an amateur scribe and country gentleman, contains the only extant copies of Sir Degrevant and the Alliterative Morte Arthure? - Featured 16 April 2011
- ... that Ruck machine gun posts were built from prefabricated sections, paving slabs, sandbags and rammed earth? - Featured 5 October 2010
- ... that the Outer Trial Bank, a nature reserve in East Anglia, UK, was originally built as part of a failed government scheme to barrage the Wash and create a reservoir? - Featured 16 March 2010.
- ... that the medieval chronicler Matthew Paris accused the medieval bishop Hugh of Wells (d. 1235) of being biased against monks, calling him "an untiring persecutor of monks"? - Featured 17 January 2010.
- ... that although little is known of the episcopate of William de Blois, Bishop of Lincoln from 1203 to 1206, he was still remembered as a learned man in the 14th century? - Featured 11 January 2010.
- ... that the body of Saint Eadnoth was stolen by the monks of Ely Abbey while the guards taking it to Ramsey Abbey were drunk? - Featured 6 January 2010.
- ... that Haldanes is the first mid-sized supermarket chain to open in the UK for more than 20 years? - Featured 5 January 2010.
- ... that with his 60 tonne 25.25 m long Denby Eco-Link super lorry, Dick Denby of Denby Transport, Lincoln, hopes to challenge the government prohibition of most types of Longer Heavier Vehicles from the roads of the United Kingdom? - Featured 29 December 2009
- ... that Archbishop of Rouen Walter de Coutances (d. 1207) had to pay the final 10,000 marks of King Richard I of England's ransom, as the archbishop was a hostage until it was paid? - Featured 6 December 2009.
- ... that the medieval English bishop Robert de Chesney was an early patron of Thomas Becket, later famous for his quarrel with King Henry II of England? - Featured 1 December 2009.
- ... that St Peter's Church, Barton-upon-Humber (pictured) was the first example of Anglo-Saxon architecture identified using evidence contained in the building? - Featured 30 November 2009
- ... that the engine house of the Pinchbeck Engine, Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, England, is a Scheduled Ancient Monument? - Featured 9 October 2009.
- ... that medieval English bishop Alexander of Lincoln was patron of the chronicler Geoffrey of Monmouth, who dedicated his Prophecies of Merlin to the bishop? - Featured 7 October 2009.
- ... that Horkstow Bridge in North Lincolnshire, completed in 1836, is the only suspension bridge designed by Sir John Rennie, builder of London Bridge? - Featured 6 October 2009.
- ... that Robert Bloet, a medieval Bishop of Lincoln, appointed his own son Simon as Dean of Lincoln? - Featured 28 September 2009.
- ... that the names of the several "Blue" public houses and inns in Grantham have their origins in a time when the parliamentary constituency of Grantham was a pocket borough? - Featured 2 August 2009.
- ... that statues of The Boy with the Leaking Boot are found in Cleethorpes (England), Winnipeg and Toronto (Canada) and several cities in the United States, but his origins are obscure? - Featured 17 July 2009.
- ... that despite winning the Football League Trophy in 2009, Luton Town are not presently eligible to defend their title? - Featured 19 May 2009.
- ... that the 2008 Lincolnshire earthquake was the largest earthquake to hit the UK for over twenty years? - Featured 2 March 2008.
- ... that Skinnand is a deserted medieval village in Lincolnshire, and that its Norman church was probably burned down by Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War? - Featured 6 June 2008.
- ... that the Wrawby Junction rail crash involved a locomotive supposedly renumbered after a psychic predicted a locomotive with the original number would be involved in a crash? - Featured 20 April 2008.
- ... that Martin Lindsay led the 1934 British Trans-Greenland Expedition, which set a world record for travelling 1050 mi (1680 km) using sledges? - Featured 19 April 2007.
- ... that Tom Hickathrift is the East Anglian equivalent of Jack the Giant Killer? - Featured 4 November 2006.
- ... that James Bond author Ian Fleming suggested that Dame Violet Dickson should write her autobiography while he was researching a book on Kuwait, and that her autobiographical book was eventually published but his never was? - Featured 4 March 2007.
- ... that the Witches of Belvoir supposedly believed a cat named Rutterkin helped them cast spells? - Featured 22 January 2007.
- ... that the dried remains of cattle slaughtered under anti-BSE measures in the UK are burned for electricity? - Featured 18 August 2006.
- ... that the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight contains the world's oldest airworthy survivor of the Battle of Britain, alongside ten other historic aircraft - two of which fought over Normandy on D-Day? - Featured 7 July 2005.
- ... that Dunston Pillar, a land lighthouse south of Lincoln, England, was built in the 18th century to aid navigation across the treacherous eastern heathlands? - Featured 20 October 2004.
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