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A CHARMING and pleasant pedestrian way known as Church
Walk can be found between Abbey Road and South Street, running
past the west front of the Abbey Church and the back of Bourne Eau House. This
short thoroughfare is full of charming features from the town's
historic past and it is such a secluded place that it is
difficult to imagine that it was once the original Lincoln to
London highway.
The Bourne Eau runs alongside, after crossing South Street under
the road. There have been many changes here in past years,
notably the disappearance of the commercial buildings, a pea
factory and corn warehouse, but there is still great visual
interest. Along Church Walk you will also find the vicarage,
built in 1986, the church hall dating from the early 1960s and
of course, the Abbey Church dominating the view as it has done
for the past thousand years, a monument to the faith of this
town in grey mellowed stone that looks its best in the late
afternoon sunlight of a hot summer's day.
At the far end, there is also a path that leads past the
churchyard to South Street itself, once lined with attractive
iron railings that were cut down for the manufacture of
munitions during the Second World War of 1939-45 and never
replaced.
There is also an ancient stone wall at the Abbey Road end, built
and repaired over the centuries and therefore containing stones
from many periods, often salvaged from old buildings elsewhere
in the town, that can be distinctly seen by anyone with an eye
for the unusual.
An illustrated account of Church Walk
can be found
on the CD-ROM A Portrait of
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