Continuity and change: Planning local History and Geography Ben Ballin & Alf Wilkinson Welcome to North Kesteven, the ‘Second Safest Place in the Country’
356 square miles 90% agricultural land 100 communities Total population 110,000 Sleaford largest, 18,000 North Hykeham, 14,000 50% of communities are less than 1,000
Heck - ing - people ton - house or farm C14th – ‘decorated’ style
‘the largest village in Lincolnshire’............. census: 1811 2654 1821 3093 1831 3633 1841 3772 1851 4153 1881 4572 2011 3353
Post Office Trade Directory, Lincolnshire, 1861
PH72 A3 poster
Transport: Roman times Car Dyke 1756 turnpike road 1794 Sleaford Navigation Trust 1859 railway
Mary Dimoline; convict......... 14 years transportation!
Heckington Windmill
c1910 postcard
Pre 1933
1830 – built as a 5 sail windmill by Michael Hare 1889 – blown down 1890 – 8 sail windmill, using sails from a bankrupt mill in Boston Bought by the Pocklington family 1946 – ceased working
1891:
1901:
Kelly's Directory 1930: Pocklington J and Sons: 'millers [wind and steam], corn, cake and coal merchant, 7 timber merchants, Station Mills.'
station opened in 1859
Goods shed, built 1859
Charles Sharpe & Co, 1890 – pea sorting 1979 – craft centre 2006 – flats
Built 1859, by Robert Taylor
Signalman’s house, built 1877
Windmill visitors: 2014 4,000 2016 7,000 2019 [projected] 15,000
Looking at the local area … some questions? Where? What? Who? Why? When? How? Remember our ‘chatterboxes’ –which way is this facing? Use the map: looks South What are the Historical and Geographical connections? Where do the two fit together?
Place based planning: starting wide and focusing in … Natural? Materials, climate, landscape … How do these affect life, then and now? Who decides? Economic? Social?
New action group to fight amendments to Heckington Fen wind farm scheme – Sleaford Standard, 1st March 2017 Now … and the future • The ‘green’ energy company Ecotricity plans to develop a wind farm near Heckington • A local action group has been set up to stop the development • Both groups claim that they are acting to improve the environment How do we teach about an issue like this?