I have perhaps taken the title “Highways and Byways” more literally than has usually been done by writers in this interesting series, and in endeavouring to describe the county and its ways I have followed the course of all the main roads radiating from each large town, noticing most of the places through or near which they pass, and also pointing out some of the more picturesque byways, and describing the lie of the country. But I have all along supposed the tourist to be travelling by motor, and have accordingly said very little about Footpaths. This in a mountainous country would be entirely wrong, but Lincolnshire as a whole is not a pedestrian’s county. It is, however, a land of constantly occurring magnificent views, a land of hill as well as plain, and, as I hope the book will show, beyond all others a county teeming with splendid churches. I may add that, thanks to that modern devourer of time and space—the ubiquitous motor car—I have been able personally to visit almost everything I have described, a thing which in so large a county would, without such mercurial aid, have involved a much longer time for the doing. Even so, no one can be more conscious than I am that the book falls far short of what, with such a theme, was possible. W. F. R. CONTENTS PAGE CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY 1 CHAPTER II STAMFORD 7 CHAPTER III STAMFORD TO BOURNE 18 CHAPTER IV ROADS FROM BOURNE 28 CHAPTER V SOUTH-WEST LINCOLNSHIRE 39 CHAPTER VI GRANTHAM 52 CHAPTER VII ROADS FROM GRANTHAM 64 CHAPTER VIII SLEAFORD 76 CHAPTER IX LINCOLN CATHEDRAL 91 CHAPTER X PAULINUS AND HUGH OF LINCOLN 112 CHAPTER XI LINCOLN CITY 120 CHAPTER XII ROADS FROM LINCOLN, WEST AND EAST 137 CHAPTER XIII ROADS SOUTH FROM LINCOLN 148 CHAPTER XIV PLACES OF NOTE NEAR LINCOLN 165 CHAPTER XV