North Kyme Village
 

A Brief History

 

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It is believed that North Kyme first became a settlement after the Romans constructed the Carr Dyke which ran for 56 miles from Washingborough on the River Witham to the River Nene at Peterborough. Before the Carr Dyke the valley between Lincoln and Tattershall would have been a vast morass.

At North Kyme the Romans had an encampment which is believed to have been situated slightly south of the present village on what is now Ferry lane. The Normans followed and moved their encampment northwards to where the present village now stands. The legacy of the Normans still stays with us today with the French name of one of our roads Vacherie Lane.

A few years before the closure of the school Nora Everard an elderly resident of North Kyme came to the school to talk to the children about what life was like in times past.  The talk was recorded and written down.

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There are several house names that have "decoy" in the name, This is a reminder that before the fens were professionally drained by the Earl of Lincoln in in 1653 that much of the low lying land was marsh.  Enormous duck traps were set up to stock the larders of the great houses in the region as well as put food onto the tables of the hunters.  These traps were known as decoys.

 

North Kyme Decoy, 3 miles NNW. of the last, 2 miles SSE. of Billinghay, and 4½ miles SW. of Tattershall. This Decoy was placed at the W. corner of Drury Dyke, in North Kyme Fen.
 		    
     

Since the draining of the fens Kyme has been predominantly a farming area.  It can be seen by the population below that the numbers living in the village were at their highest in the 1870s where land working was very labour intensive before the revolution of farm machinery.

In present times North kyme offers very little employment in the village its self and is mainly a satellite commuter village for the Lincoln, Sleaford and the near bye RAF station of Conningsby.


Population of north kyme


1801          215
1841          361
1871          734
1891          636
1901              ?
1911          549

2010          456




 

 

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