Graby

If you travel into that part of the countryside north of Bourne and south of Folkingham, you will find yourself in unwrecked Lincolnshire, an area that has remained relatively unchanged for some centuries. Graby is a hamlet that can be found here at the start of what was known as Mareham Lane, a mediaeval road that follows the same route as the Roman King Street which bordered the fens. 

It is tiny with red brick cottages and farms, some of which bear coats of arms to celebrate royal occasions. In the Domesday Book, it is called Greibi and seems to gain its name from the Old Norse word for bitch. 

Mareham Lane here is just a narrow street, taking its name perhaps from its proximity to meres or lakes in undrained fen. The stream that forms a ford in Aslackby does the same just north of Graby.

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