1. Continuity and change: Planning local History and Geography
Ben Ballin & Alf Wilkinson
Welcome to North Kesteven, the ‘Second Safest Place in the Country’

2. 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

3. Heck -
ing people
ton house or farm 
C14th – ‘decorated’ style

4. ‘the largest village in Lincolnshire’.............
census:

5. Post Office Trade Directory, Lincolnshire, 1861

6. PH72 A3 poster

14. Transport: Roman times Car Dyke 1756 turnpike road
Sleaford Navigation Trust
railway

15. Mary Dimoline; convict.........
14 years transportation!

19. Heckington Windmill

20. c1910 postcard

21. Pre 1933

22. 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

24. 1891:

25. 1901:

27. Kelly's Directory 1930:
Pocklington J and Sons: 'millers [wind and steam], corn, cake and coal merchant, 7 timber merchants, Station Mills.'

30. station opened in 1859

32. Goods shed, built 1859

33. Charles Sharpe & Co, 1890 – pea sorting
1979 – craft centre
2006 – flats

34. Built 1859, by Robert Taylor

35. Signalman’s house, built 1877

38. Windmill visitors:
,000
,000
2019 [projected] 15,000

39. 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?

40. Place based planning: starting wide and focusing in …
Natural? Materials, climate, landscape …
How do these affect life, then and now?
Who decides?
Economic?
Social?

41. 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?