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South Witham railway station

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South Witham railway station was a station in South Witham, Lincolnshire on the Midland Railway. It was Midland Railway property but train services were operated by the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway. It was closed in 1959 along with most of the M&GN.The station consisted of wooden buildings and platforms on the embankment, with a goods yard to the north, which could hold 50 wagons. It was built by a Mr. C. Barnes of Melton Mowbray, similar in style to Edmondthorpe and Wymondham. The platforms had a length of 400 ft (122 m), the passing loop was 279 ft (85 m) long.

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South Witham railway station
Thistleton Lane, South Kesteven South Witham

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Thistleton Lane

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NG33 5QG South Kesteven, South Witham
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Thistleton
Thistleton

Thistleton is the most northerly village in the county of Rutland, and a civil parish, in the East Midlands of England. The population of the village at the 2001 census was 99. It remained less than 100 at the 2011 census and was counted together with the civil parish of Stretton. The village's name means 'farm/settlement which is thistly'.The Thistleton area has shown evidence of Romano-British occupation including a large temple precinct and a possible small market settlement. To the north of the village there has been extensive mining for ironstone, a stone that has featured very prominently in the building of many churches and other buildings in the area for centuries. It was thought that the mining had obliterated evidence of the former greater extent of the village but much archaeology has survived showing that the original Romano-British settlement extended some 100 acres (0.40 km2) at least. Extensive surveys, brought about by the planning of a haulage road to the quarry to pass through the site of the ancient township, revealed features including a well-preserved Roman road and the skeleton of a child buried well away from the cemetery. The archaeology is ongoing as the mining continues.The village contains several listed buildings including the Old Rectory and the Church of St Nicholas. Many of the village's buildings are stone-walled and thatched. Although the church is of medieval origin, only the 14th-century three-stage tower, complete with gargoyles, remains. The church was rebuilt in the late 18th century by the Brudenells, and the rector, the Rev.d Sir John Henry Fludyer, 4th Baronet to whose family the elaborate chancel is a memorial. The newer building is 14th century in style; however, the shape of the apse is half an octagon externally but semi-circular inside. Most of the internal fittings, including the font and the organ, are relatively modern.Close by, to the south of the village, lies the RAF Cottesmore airfield which opened in 1938. The airfield is now the Army's Kendrew Barracks.

Greetham, Rutland
Greetham, Rutland

Greetham is a village and civil parish in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England. The village's name means 'homestead/village which is gravelly' or 'hemmed-in land which is gravelly'.The village is on the B668 road between the county town of Oakham and the A1 and on the north–south Viking Way long distance footpath linking the Humber Bridge and Oakham. The population of the civil parish at the 2001 census was 609 increasing to 638 at the 2011 census.The oldest parts of the Church of England parish church of St Mary the Virgin are Norman, but the church today is largely as it was rebuilt in the 13th–15th centuries. The west tower and spire are 13th or 14th century and the south porch was built in 1673. The church was restored in 1897 by Jethro Cossins. The church is a Grade I listed building. It is on Historic England's Heritage at Risk Register, at priority category: C – "slow decay; no solution agreed".Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust owns Merry's Meadows nature reserve, a SSSI in the parish that is important for species characteristic of unimproved grassland. East of the village just before the Sewstern Lane junction, just north of the B668 is Greetham Lime Quarry owned by the Dickerson Group of Waterbeach. Greetham has two pubs: the Plough and the Wheatsheaf, both on the B668. To the east is the Greetham Valley golf course. On the A1 near Stretton is a former pub, the Olde Greetham Inn, now owned by Construction Interior Design. The village well, of mid-19th century, has an inscription; "All ye who hither come to drink/Rest not your thoughts below/Remember Jacob's well and think/Whence "living waters" flow." It is Grade II listed.

Ram Jam Inn
Ram Jam Inn

The Ram Jam Inn was a historic pub in the civil parish of Greetham, Rutland, England, located on the west side of the Great North Road (now the A1), near Stretton, about 7 miles north of Stamford. It was frequented by the highwayman Dick Turpin in the 18th century, and it is alleged that one of his confidence tricks inspired the pub's name. The pub closed in 2013, and plans to demolish it were put on hold. The pub originally opened as a coaching inn called the Winchelsea Arms, but became known as the Ram Jam Inn by the early 19th century, Turpin was a temporary lodger at the inn, and resided here when he first found notoriety. He showed his landlady, Mrs Spring, how to draw mild and bitter ale from a single barrel, stating "ram one thumb in here whilst I make a hole ... now jam your other thumb in this hole while I find the forgotten spile pegs." Turpin subsequently disappeared without paying his bill, while Spring was trapped with two thumbs in the barrel. An alternative, similar, account is that an unnamed con-artist, not specifically named as Turpin, made the landlord fall for the trick so the trickster could try and seduce the landlady. A third tale is that by the 19th century "ram-jam" was a term that meant both eating to capacity and a place full of people.In The Great North Road (1974), Norman W. Webster writes: "Its original name was the Winchilsea [sic] Arms but by the middle of the eighteenth century it was generally known as the Ram Jam. This striking name was the basis of its success for, although it was never a posting house of any importance, its memorable title established it as a land-mark on the Great North Road, contemporary topographers referring to the spot as Ram Jam House. The title derives from the name of a spirit sold by an officer's servant newly returned from India; he called it Ram Ján, the name for an Indian servant, and as such it achieved a similar kind of fame to that of Stilton Cheese sold down the road. Imaginative legends have been invented to explain the curious title, the present sign showing a man stopping the holes of a cask with his fingers. The original spirit has not been sold here since the early years of the nineteenth century, the secret of the recipe having been lost or forgotten." Webster adds that the Ram Jam was one of three "half-way inns" providing sustenance and a change or horses between Stamford and Grantham, but was at the time of writing the only one to have retained its license as an inn. In 1878, Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale ran 100 miles from Knightsbridge Barracks to the inn in under 18 hours in order to win a bet.Soul singer Geno Washington claims he named his backing band the Ram Jam Band after the pub, as it was a popular place for the band to stop en route to gigs. But it was the Ram Jam Band's founder Pete Gage who named the band before Geno was invited to join as their singer.When reviewing the inn in 2000, The Telegraph's Paddy Burt described the meals as "simple food, well done". The novelist Margaret Drabble enjoyed staying at the inn, noting that the double glazing effectively masks the sound of traffic on the A1. The inn is mentioned in the novel Room for Us by Roger Harvey (published UK, 2020). Immediately to the south of the Inn is the Ram Jam Service Station, a petrol station with some amenities, serving northbound traffic only.