Monument record MLI30085 - Brewer's Grave

Summary

Brewer's Grave

Type and Period (3)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Full Description

A small mound where the post inclosure road to Woolsthorpe crosses the Sewstern Lane, is traditionally the grave where a brewer who committed suicide was buried at crossroads with a stake through his heart, but was then removed and buried elsewhere, another version called him a baker, therefore it is possibly a late story attached to a far older name which meant the grave on the bruery or heath… . {1}

Sources/Archives (1)

  •  Serial: 1919. LINCOLNSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. XV.

Map

Location

Grid reference SK 846 337 (point)
Civil Parish WOOLSTHORPE, SOUTH KESTEVEN, LINCOLNSHIRE

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Record last edited

Mar 21 2021 8:35PM

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