Talk:Lincolnshire

Speed Cameras

Not really sure that the "Speed Cameras of Lincolnshire" warrants a category mention on the top level Lincolnshire page. Unless other people feel that speed cameras are a quintessential feature of the county I vote for moving this somwhere. Do others agree? Nick Fraser 17:52, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Agree. Speed cameras are everywhere. I'd just delete the entire section Dupont Circle 18:09, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Well I disagree, unless your going to have a page on speed cameras. Speed Cameras were trialled in Lincolnshire, and Lincolnshire has more speed cameras than anywhere else. They have caused a huge controversy in the County, especially as they were introduced first because Linconshire has the highest number of most dangerous roads in the UK, and the highest death rate, so yes, Speed Cameras are a essential feature of this county.

193.131.115.253 09:44, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

In which case you need to take what you've just written and turn it into a paragraph on the high levels of road deaths in the county Dupont Circle 06:33, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hi 193.13.115.253 (it's better if you have a Wikipedia login, gives you more editorial clout). I agree that there are interesting and relevant things to say about speeding, cameras, road deaths in the context of Lincolnshire, it's just that I don't think it's top level entry - this should be reserved for broad topics (such as Geography, History, References, etc.) otherwise we risk the top level page becoming bogged down in detail. I propose creating a subsection of the Geography section called Transport Networks (or an entirely new section called Transport if people prefer?) and we can use this area to talk about issues to do with rail and road in the county.

List of Towns and Villages

Do we need the big long list of towns and villages in this entry? Would it look better to do a list of towns and then a link to the Category:Villages in Lincolnshire entry? Dupont Circle 18:16, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)

every county page has a list of villages, it seems, so keeping the list keeps the page layout :consistent  :-D

Lincolnshire Poacher

Ok, ive had a play, i can see the merit of a villages list page, we go with ur idea

Lincolnshire Poacher

Once every town and village on the list has an entry then we can remove the new villages list and, as long as they all are in the Category:Villages in Lincolnshire or Category:Towns in Lincolnshire categories, link to them Dupont Circle 19:03, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Agree with Dupont Circle. Seems like a sensible tidy up. Nick Fraser 19:44, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Why are there two entries for Welton (Welton, Lincolnshire and Welton by Lincoln)?

Places I cant find on any map

(this is a live list)

• Thompsons Bottom
  

hey ive found some more new place names. Thompsons Bottom seems to refer to a stretch of road with a factory unit, just west of Ashby De La Launde

Other ones are Skendleby Psalter and Thorpe Park (near Woodhall). Wonder why Lincolnshire County Council are inventing new place names??

~~

• Westville
  

Theres Eastville and Midville, out on the Fen near Stickney, but no Westville, unless Stickney was it once upaon a day. Ive found three lists now that mention Westville.

Multimap blanks it, but Streetmap mentions Westville Farm, just North of Gipsey Bridge Lincolnshire Poacher

Westville is pretty much the area around what would appear to be three or four Westville Farms on the map! It's a large parish of not many houses and plenty of fenland. Take a look at this map from magic.gov.uk - the blue lines are parish boundaries - and find the apostrophe in Bunker's Hill. The boundary of Westville goes from there, down to Westville Road and then heads along the road towards, but not all the way to, Frithville. At Twenty Foot Bridge it turns north along Twenty Foot Drain and there you can follow the line towards Carrington and Medlam. Hope that helps. Dupont Circle 14:31, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

ah yes I see, its that bit of soggy bleakness south of Carrington......... Lincolnshire Poacher

Article standards

Ok, i propose we agree on a standard. Ive done an update on all the places that already had pages, and now ive gone back to A and started creating the non esistant pages. I propse we construct the pages as follows:

Sample text:

(village) lies on (road) near (town/ landmark)

(other interesting facts, famous poeple, famous sights, famous buuildings/monoliths/natural features}

Grid reference
latitude and longitude

link to multimap map
link to multimap arial view

other links -churches, village websites, golf courses, buildings, people etc.

Uk geo stub

end

If possible, make disambig pages for any other place hogging the title page. For a sample look at Aisthorpe. Im now going to systematically work through A to Z making all the pages like this.

What u think?

Lincolnshire Poacher

• That's an excellent idea to have a template. I've amended the Aisthorpe page to outline what I would do and so I'd better outline my thinking!
  • The first thing I'd do is follow the convention of actually starting the article with the name of the place and the area it is in. I think it's good to state the nearest town(s) and the driving distance between them.
  • I think your description of the B1398 isn't needed on this page. That would go on a future page about the B1398.
  • I'd move the gbmapping tag and any links to an External Links section. I was in two minds about whether there should be a link to a Multimap map as the gbmapping tag goes to the Ordnance Survey map, but many other pages have more than one external map link. I've taken the aerial photo link out becuase it goes to the same site as your other map link. Again, I'm in two minds as to whether to leave it in or not.
  • I'd also make sure that there's the category tag so the page automatically appears in the Villages of Lincolnshire category page

My two pennorth there :) Dupont Circle 19:35, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

ok, heres the bit of code im using for the end of the page: (edit page to see it)

(the External Links template thing here)

• VILL is located at 52°59′00″N 00°32′00″W¹.
• grid reference TF700450
  
• [MULTIMAP URL Location map of VILL]
• [MULTIMAP URL Arial view of VILL]
• [CHURCHES URL ST SOMEONES Church, VILL]

{{UK-geo-stub}}

setting the correct name for VILL and the URLs, the correct LAT and LONg and map ref, im providing a multimap link, an arial photo link, a piccy of the church, and anything else such as Village webby etc.

Lincolnshire Poacher 00:08, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

(just changed the stub to a template link - no reason for this talk page to be listed as a UK-geo-stub!) Grutness|^hello? 04:17, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

photos

what about more photos, if we can, Dupont?

we need some poor hapless fool to drive round lincolnshire taking photos of every village...........

Lincolnshire Poacher

• Excellent idea - sadly I can't be the fool as I only spend 48 hours a year in the county and I'm not spending my Christmas with my parents driving to Old Bolingbroke! I don't have any photos really from when I lived there as when you live somewhere you don't tend to take photos. Dupont Circle 19:37, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

For what it's worth I can contribute a pic of Harmston soon. Nick Fraser 19:48, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Geography Section

I've expanded the Geography section a bit - it is still far from satisfactory. When I have time I will try and bring it up to standard, make it punchy and concise and separate some of the material into a linked 'Geography of Lincolnhshire' linked page. In the meantime, please improve and add to this, particularly the subregions (currently incomplete). Forgive me for not finishing this off properly, simply ran out of time. Nick Fraser 19:38, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

good edit, nice section.

Lincolnshire Poacher 21:52, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Lincolnshire Show

where did you get the date of 1869 as the start of the Lincolnshire Show? I hope your not confusing it with the Lincoln Cattle Market...........my ancestors won a cup at the third Lincolnshire Show (for the 'best pen of 100 breeding sows'!)

Lincolnshire Poacher 21:32, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I'm happy to be corrected if I'm wrong [1] Dupont Circle 22:42, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

No, im not saying ur wrong, i thought it started later, but you may be right. I was just interested where u got the info

What do you call a fellow resident of Lincolnshire?

In Westfall's biography,

Isaac Newton came from Lincolnshire and had time for any of his 'countrymen' who were travelling in London, during his time as Master of the Mint.

My question: What is the word for a fellow Lincolnshire resident?. Once I know it, I can put this into his article. To me, it does not matter if they did not use the term during Newton's time; it only matters that the term is from Lincolnshire. I would like to include such a sentence as a humanizing fact for the Isaac Newton article. Thank you, Ancheta Wis 00:16, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

I'm not sure that humanising of that sort is appropriate for a Wikipedia article, and putting in a later slang term like "yellowbelly" would surely be inappropriate. There's no useful term, so far as I know — but then, there isn't for most counties. When it sounds OK, one can stick "man" or "woman" on the end of the county name (or derived adjective), as in "Yorkshireman" or "Cornishman", but it's clumsy with "Lincolnshire". Westfall's sentence is also rather clumsy, incidentally: he had time for them during his time... --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 09:02, 9 August 2005 (UTC)