• Skinnand is a deserted medieval village in Lincolnshire, and that its Norman church was probably burned down by Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War?
• Anna Maria Garthwaite, the daughter of a Lincolnshire clergyman, became the leading designer of flowered fabrics for the Spitalfields silk-weaving trade in 18th century England?

Facts on topics related to Lincolnshire

Lincoln, Lincolnshire

• with his 60 tonne 25.25 m long Denby Eco-Link super lorry, Dick Denby of Denby Transport, Lincoln, hopes to challenge the government prohibition of most types of Longer Heavier Vehicles from the roads of the United Kingdom?

North Lincolnshire

• Horkstow Bridge in North Lincolnshire, completed in 1836, is the only suspension bridge designed by Sir John Rennie, builder of London Bridge?

Lancashire

• English landscape architect Edward Milner designed three public parks in Preston, Lancashire, as a scheme for relieving unemployment caused by the cotton famine in the 1860s?
• John Roby ignored some Lancashire oral traditions in writing about the boggart of Clegg Hall?
• St Oswald's Church, Warton, Lancashire (pictured), has connections with the ancestors of George Washington?
• Tower Hill Water Tower (pictured) in Ormskirk, Lancashire, is reputed to be the oldest remaining water tower in England?
• Warton in Lancashire is a historic village famous for its contribution to the UK aerospace industry?
  
• in St Peter's Church, Heysham, Lancashire, is a Viking hogback stone, and in the churchyard is the base of an Anglo-Saxon cross (pictured)?
• the Lancashire textile merchant and politician Robert Needham Philips was the grandfather of the historian G. M. Trevelyan?
• the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in Blackpool, Lancashire, was built as a thanksgiving for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lancaster being relatively undamaged in the Second World War?
• the land for the first Holy Trinity Church in Morecambe, Lancashire, was bequeathed by the village blacksmith?

Herefordshire

• Wye Valley Brewery’s Dorothy Goodbody line of beers were all originally supposed to feature Herefordshire-grown hops, but the best-known beer in that line contains hops grown in Ireland?
• between the Reformation, when it became redundant, and the mid-19th century, when it was restored, Longworth Chapel in Herefordshire was used for cider making?

Isle of Wight

• PS Monarch, currently operating cruises along River Medina on the Isle of Wight, is the world's smallest commercially operated paddle steamer?
• the prolific author Maxwell Gray, whose real name was Mary Gleed Tuttiett, was a permanent invalid who seldom left her home in Newport, Isle of Wight?