The approach to Haxey

Image: © Marathon Taken: 8 Sep 2019

Batsford's Lincolnshire says: "Haxey is in many ways typical of the Isle of Axholme. It is a large and somewhat straggling settlement. brick-built with a few earlier houses interspersed with the predominant Victorian, and with its outlying hamlets of Graiselound and Westwoodside. From below. the eyes follow the strip pattern of the fields up to a skyline dominated by the church and the water tower. The churches of Axholme include several large and splendid buildings, and Haxey, mainly fifteenth-century Perpendicular but with some earlier bits, is one of the best." The Shell Guide to Lincolnshire describes Haxey: " A decayed little town of red houses. The street climbs a low hill on which stands a large and dignified church - all Perpendicular with a western tower with eight pinnacles. The nave is part Norman and part Early English." This is the view of St Nicholas Church, Haxey from Tower Hill.

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