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 CHAPTER XVII

THE NORTH-WEST

Winteringham—Alkborough and "Julian's Bower"—Burton-Stather—Scunthorpe and Frodingham—Fillingham and Wycliff—Glentworth and Sir Christopher Wray—Laughton—Corringham—Gainsborough—The Old Hall—Lea and Sir Charles Anderson—Knaith and Sir Thomas Sutton—A Group of Early Church Towers—Lincolnshire Roads.

It is quite a surprise to the traveller in the north of the county to find so much that is really pretty in what looks on the map, from the artistic point of view, a trifle "flat and unprofitable," but really there are few prettier bits of road in the county than that by "the Villages" under the northern Wolds, and there is another little bit of cliff near the mouth of the Trent which affords equally picturesque bits of village scenery combined with fine views over the Trent, Ouse, and Humber.

From South Ferriby a byway runs alongside the water to Winteringham, from whence the Romans must have had a ferry to Brough, whence their great road went on to the north.

In Winteringham church there are some good Norman arches, and a fine effigy of a knight in armour, said to be one of the Marmions. The road hence takes us by innumerable turns to West Halton, where the church is dedicated to St. Etheldreda, who is said to have hidden here from her husband Ecgfrith, when she was fleeing to Ely, at which place she founded the first monastery, in 672, six years before the building of the church at Stow. Murray notes that in the "Liber Eliensis" Halton is called Alftham.

Three miles to the south-east we find the large village of Winterton, just within a mile of the Ermine Street, and it is