Continuity and change Planning local History and Geography

Continuity and change: Planning local History and Geography Ben Ballin & Alf Wilkinson Welcome to North Kesteven, the ‘Second Safest Place in the Country’

• 356 square miles • 90% agricultural land • 100 communities • Total population 110, 000 • Sleaford largest, 18, 000 • North Hykeham, 14, 000 • 50% of communities are less than 1, 000

Heck ing - people ton - house or farm C 14 th – ‘decorated’ style

‘the largest village in Lincolnshire’. . . census: 1811 1821 3093 1831 1841 1851 1881 2011 2654 3633 3772 4153 4572 3353

Post Office Trade Directory, Lincolnshire, 1861

Transport: Roman times 1756 1794 1859 Car Dyke turnpike road Sleaford Navigation Trust railway

Mary Dimoline; convict. . 14 years transportation!

Heckington Windmill

• 1830 – built as a 5 sail windmill by Michael Hare • 1889 – blown down • 1890 – 8 sail windmill, using sails from a bankrupt mill in Boston • Bought by the Pocklington family • 1946 – ceased working

1891:

1901:

Kelly's Directory 1930: Pocklington J and Sons: 'millers [wind and steam], corn, cake and coal merchant, 7 timber merchants, Station Mills. '

station opened in 1859

Goods shed, built 1859

Charles Sharpe & Co, 1890 – pea sorting 1979 – craft centre 2006 – flats

Built 1859, by Robert Taylor

Signalman’s house, built 1877

Windmill visitors: • 2014 • 2016 • 2019 [projected] 4, 000 7, 000 15, 000

Looking at the local area … some questions? Where? What? Who? Why? When? How? What are the Historical and Geographical connections? Where do the two fit together?

Place based planning: starting wide and focusing in … Natural? Materials, climate, landscape … How do these affect life, then and now? Who decides? Economic? Social?

New action group to fight amendments to Heckington Fen wind farm scheme – Sleaford Standard, 1 st March 2017 Now … and the future • The ‘green’ energy company Ecotricity plans to develop a wind farm near Heckington • A local action group has been set up to stop the development • Both groups claim that they are acting to improve the environment How do we teach about an issue like this?