four villages of _Scawby_, _Broughton_, _Wrawby_ and _Bigby_ unite here, and the great Weir Dyke or “New River Ancholme” which runs from the river Rase to the Humber goes through it. It is eleven miles from Bishopsbridge on the Rase to Brigg, and seven from Brandy Wharf, whence boats used to run to meet the Humber boats at Ferriby Sluice, ten miles north of Brigg. Hereabouts the fens are called “carrs.” We noticed the term “carr dyke” for the Roman drain near Bourn, which runs from the Nene to the Witham; and the map along the whole course of the Ancholme, which runs north for twenty miles, is covered with “carrs.” The villages are at the edge of the Wold generally, but they all have their bit of fen and all are called by this name, Horkstow carrs, Saxby carrs, Worlaby carrs, Elsham carrs, etc. _Carr_ is a north country word, and has two distinct meanings in Lincolnshire. 1. The moat-like places which originally surrounded the inaccessible islets, with which the Fenland at one time abounded; but now used chiefly of low-lying land apt to be flooded. 2. A wood of alder, ash, &c., in a moist boggy place, _e.g._, “Keal Carrs,” near Spilsby. A third meaning is less common, viz., the humate of iron or yellow sediment in water which flows from peaty land. [Sidenote: BROUGHTON AND BRIGG] Of the four parishes above mentioned which meet at Brigg,[6] _Broughton_ on the Ermine Street is worth a visit. The pre-Norman church and tower, like _Marton_, has a good deal of herring-bone work, and, like _Hough-on-the-Hill_, an outer turret containing a spiral staircase. There is a small rude doorway, and as at Barton, the tower with its two apses probably formed the original church. The present nave is built on the Norman foundation, and the cable moulding is visible at the base of two of the pillars. There is a chapel in the north aisle, and on the north side of the chancel a good altar tomb with alabaster effigies of Sir H. Redford and his wife, 1380, and a fine brass on the floor of about the same date. This chancel was once sixteen feet longer. In another meanly built chantry is a monument to Sir Ed. Anderson, 1660. In Broughton woods, as at Tumby, the lily of the valley grows wild. North of Broughton the Ermine Street becomes again passable, and, after running some miles through a well-wooded country, is crossed by the railway at Appleby Station, whence it becomes a good road again, but again falls into disuse when the road turns to the left for _Winterton_, a large village in which three fine Roman pavements were ploughed up in 1747. Here we have a large cruciform church with a very early tower. Afterwards the Street continues, a visible but not very serviceable track, to _Winteringham Haven_, the Roman “Ad Abum.” [Sidenote: OLD BOAT OF BRIGG]