IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Whichcote Fields, SLEAFORD, NG34 0BF
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Whichcote Fields, NG34 0BF by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Map
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Notes
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Image Listing (117 Images Found)
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Distance
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New development
21st century housing estate on the edge of Osbournby
Image: © Bob Harvey
Taken: 20 Jan 2019
0.06 miles
4
No eggs
Beside the service valve sign (I looked for the associated valve cover and could not find it. I suspect it has been tarmac'd over) is this little model house, normally used for displaying fresh eggs for sale. The lady owner told me that the hens are off lay, and she blamed the dry weather.
Image: © Bob Harvey
Taken: 20 Jan 2019
0.08 miles
5
Footpath, Osbournby
The footpath takes walkers from the village towards the A52. The path will soon be out of the grid square.
Image: © Maigheach-gheal
Taken: 2 Apr 2011
0.08 miles
6
The Coggarth
The house at the end of Image has a most unusual name. "The Coggarth"
Now, I am guessing here, but we are in the Danelaw, where a Garth is an enclosed bit of land, from the Old Norse garðr "yard". Cog is another thing altogether. Ignoring all the associations with gearwheels, this might mean a hill or high ground, or it might mean an act of cheating at cards. Or it might mean a protruding tenon in a wooden frame.
But far more interestingly, a "Cog" is a dialect word for a Cuckoo, (pronounced with a vowel half way between 'o' and 'u' and probably onomatopoeic). One source links it with "gowk", also a Cuckoo.
There are several places in Lincolnshire known as Cuckoobush, which have legends of simple-minded folk building a fence around a bush to restrain the Cuckoo, often because they are enchanted by the bird's "beautiful song". Perhaps the Garth here was for a Cuckoo too?
I have no idea at all why this is called Coggarth - which has been a surname in the past. But I really like the Cuckoo idea.
Image: © Bob Harvey
Taken: 20 Jan 2019
0.08 miles
7
Centre of Osbournby
A huge area of tarmac. One feels there should be a green.
Image: © Tim Heaton
Taken: 10 Oct 2022
0.08 miles
8
A&P Travel, Osbournby
A & P Travel are a Lincolnshire based coach company.
Image: © Maigheach-gheal
Taken: 2 Apr 2011
0.09 miles
9
Postbox, Osbournby
The George V (1865-1936) reign postbox is set into a wall of A & P Travel. For a wider view of the building Image
Image: © Maigheach-gheal
Taken: 2 Apr 2011
0.09 miles
10
Sign, Osbournby
Advertising sign attached to the wall of A & P Travel. For a wider view of the building Image
Image: © Maigheach-gheal
Taken: 2 Apr 2011
0.09 miles