Friskney Eaudyke

{{Short description|Settlement in the civil parish of Friskney, and the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2019}}

{{Use British English|date=January 2019}}

{{Infobox UK place

| official_name= Friskney Eaudyke

| static_image_name= Wesleyan Centenary Chapel, Friskney, Lincs - geograph.org.uk - 86059.jpg

| static_image_width =

| static_image_caption= Wesleyan Centenary Chapel, Friskney Eaudyke

| country= England

| region= East Midlands

| population = 1,563

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| os_grid_reference= TF473559

| coordinates = {{coord| 53.080073| 0.19889653 |display=inline,title}}

| post_town= BOSTON

| postcode_area= PE

| postcode_district= PE22

| dial_code= 01754

| constituency_westminster=

| civil_parish= Friskney

| shire_district= East Lindsey

| shire_county= Lincolnshire

| london_distance_mi= 105

| london_direction= S

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Friskney Eaudyke is a settlement in the civil parish of Friskney, and the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is {{convert|11|mi|km|sigfig=1}} north-east from Boston and {{convert|30|mi|km|sigfig=1}} east-southeast from the city and county town of Lincoln.

Friskney Eaudyke is {{convert|1|mi|km|1}} east from the parish village of Friskney, and the same distance north-east from the parish hamlet of Fold Hill. The A52 road, which runs locally from Boston to Skegness, is {{convert|800|yd|m|sigfig=1}} south-east.Extracted from [https://gridreferencefinder.com?gr=TF4719555755|Wesleyan_s_Centenary_s_Chapel|1,TF4714256233|Bridge_s_Farmhouse|1,TF4807156797|Hoyle's_s_Mill|1,TF4772656589|Ash_s_Tree_s_Farmhouse|1,TF4783755425|Pottery_s_and_s_bone_s_finds|1&v=r Grid Reference Finder]

The settlement is centred on the northwest-to-southeast Eau Dyke Road, between Low Road at the north-west and the staggered junction with Sickling Lane and Chapel Lane at the south-east. Friskney Eaudyke comprises detached and semidetached houses, farms with associated buildings, a farm produce distribution company, a balloon supply & event company, a garage services company, and Grade II listed buildings.

The listed Bridge Farmhouse, a late 18th-century two-storey red brick house, is on Low Road south from the junction with Eau Dyke Road.{{NHLE|num= 1267368 |desc= Bridge Farmhouse |accessdate=23 January 2019}} Over the junction and further north on Low Road is Ash Tree Farmhouse, a mid-18th to mid-19th-century gabled red brick house.{{NHLE|num= 1223585 |desc= Ash Tree Farmhouse |accessdate=23 January 2019}} At the north on Mill Lane off Low Road, and near the border with Wainfleet St Mary, is Hoyle's Windmill, of three-storeys and today converted to a storehouse by the addition of an attached building. Largely early 19th-century, it dates from 1730.{{NHLE|num= 1267367 |desc= Hoyle's Windmill|accessdate=23 January 2019}}{{cite PastScape|mnumber= 498116 |mname= Hoyle's Windmill |accessdate=23 January 2019}} At the south-west on Chapel Lane is the Grade II* listed 19th-century red brick Wesleyan Centenary Chapel, dating to 1839.{{NHLE|num= 1267369 |desc= Methodist Chapel |accessdate=23 January 2019}}{{cite PastScape|mnumber=1376475|mname= Wesleyan Centenary Chapel |accessdate=23 January 2019}}

In 1871 "Ancient British" pottery, and fragments of bone were found by workmen on Eaudyke Road at the south-east of the settlement.{{cite PastScape|mnumber=355151|mname= Monument no. 355151|accessdate=23 January 2019}} Kelly's Directory in 1885 noted the 1871 archeological finds by workmen as they were building the infants' school at 'Eaudyke'. The directory records a schoolmistress, and the Wesleyan chapel which it said was built in 1832.Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull 1885, pp.281-283 The listed trades at 'Eaudyke' in the 1933 Kelly's Directory included five farmers, a potato merchant, a saddler, a beer retailer, a shopkeeper, a grocer, a butcher, a baker, and a motor engineer.Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1933, pp.190, 191