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I’m going to visit Boston! Before anyone comments that is Boston in Lincolnshire, England not the Boston in Massachusetts USA.
I can remember from my childhood family visits to Lincolnshire and the East Coast were highlights of my summer holidays from school in my Grandads car. He always took the route through Boston and onwards to Skegness, Ingoldmells or Chapel St Leonards.
One of the little bits of fun was looking for the Lincolnshire Imp. Grandad used to tell us the story that the imp would pick up the Boston Stump (St Botolph's Church) and run across the road to the other side to confuse you when travelling to Boston. Unknown to the children my siblings and I were at the time, the road approaching Boston had bends in it so that in the distance the Stump did in fact change sides of the road. The tower of St Botolph's Church is 272 feet 6 inches (83.06 m) high, making it the tallest parish church in England to its roof. The tower was used as a marker for travellers on The Fens and in The Wash so can be seen from many miles away.
One of my favourite authors, Elizabeth Chadwick wrote “The Marshkings Daughter” a medieval novel set in the early 13th century and is set in both Nottingham and Boston and St Botolph’s features in it. This is one of my favourite novels of Ms Chadwick and the way she describes areas in Nottingham are so vivid that when I walk through those areas I can easily picture in my mind what they could have looked like 700 years ago.
So, St Botolph’s is my destination and armed with my camera I am looking forward to exploring the lovely building.
I can remember from my childhood family visits to Lincolnshire and the East Coast were highlights of my summer holidays from school in my Grandads car. He always took the route through Boston and onwards to Skegness, Ingoldmells or Chapel St Leonards.
One of the little bits of fun was looking for the Lincolnshire Imp. Grandad used to tell us the story that the imp would pick up the Boston Stump (St Botolph's Church) and run across the road to the other side to confuse you when travelling to Boston. Unknown to the children my siblings and I were at the time, the road approaching Boston had bends in it so that in the distance the Stump did in fact change sides of the road. The tower of St Botolph's Church is 272 feet 6 inches (83.06 m) high, making it the tallest parish church in England to its roof. The tower was used as a marker for travellers on The Fens and in The Wash so can be seen from many miles away.
One of my favourite authors, Elizabeth Chadwick wrote “The Marshkings Daughter” a medieval novel set in the early 13th century and is set in both Nottingham and Boston and St Botolph’s features in it. This is one of my favourite novels of Ms Chadwick and the way she describes areas in Nottingham are so vivid that when I walk through those areas I can easily picture in my mind what they could have looked like 700 years ago.
So, St Botolph’s is my destination and armed with my camera I am looking forward to exploring the lovely building.
