X-Nico

3 unusual facts about Sleaford


Asgarby and Howell

Asgarby and Howell is a civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, consisting of the villages of Asgarby and Howell.

Bridget Chaworth

In around 1590 she married Sir William Carr (16 May 1542 – 1608) of Sleaford, Lincolnshire, by whom she had no issue.

South Forty-Foot Drain

In 1762, the Witham Drainage Act was passed by Parliament, and among other things constituted the Commissioners of Sewers for the Second and Sixth District, which covered the area including Asgarby, Ewerby, Great Hale, Heckington, Holland Fen, Howell, Little Hale and South Kyme.


Kesteven and Sleaford High School

Kesteven and Sleaford High School Selective Academy (KSHSSA), formerly 'Kesteven and Sleaford High School' (KSHS), is a selective school with academy status for girls aged between eleven and sixteeen and girls and boys between sixteen and eighteen, located on Jermyn Street in the small market town of Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England, close to Sleaford railway station.

Nocton rail accident

John Fletcher, a 47-year-old delivery driver, was driving a white Mercedes van along the B1188 Sleaford road when he turned off along a disused road near Nocton, Lincolnshire.

Richard Massingham

Richard Massingham (31 January 1898, Sleaford, Lincolnshire – 1 April 1953, Biddenden, Kent) was a British actor who is principally noted for starring in public information films made in the 1940s and early 1950s.

Sleaford Castle

Henry VIII stayed at Sleaford twice (once in 1541 with his queen Catherine Howard) and held a State Council at the Castle.


see also