The village has some 2,500 inhabitants, an abundance of trees and is situated almost at the centre of Lincolnshire, about 14 miles north of Boston. The road from Lincoln (B1191) crosses the river Witham at Kirkstead Bridge and enters the village along the tree-lined Witham Road. The gravestones and the war memorial at the crossroads mark the site of the first church to be built in the village, St Andrew's (1847 - 1957).
Over the crossroads and adjacent to the car park in Station Road is the memorial to 617 (Dambuster) Squadron, RAF. The memorial was dedicated in 1987 and is in the form of a breached dam. The squadron was based at the wartime airfield of Woodhall Spa shortly after the epic dams raid in 1943.
The memorial and the car park are on the site of the Royal Hydro Hotel and Winter Gardens, designed and developed by the architect, R. A. Came, at the end of the 19th century. His plan was based on a rectangular shopping mall and a straight tree-lined Broadway. The hotel was destroyed by an enemy parachute mine in 1943. The only part to survive is the present Mall Hotel, the half-timbered upper storey of which was a style much favoured by Came.
The track of the Kirkstead to Horncastle branch railway (1855-1971) followed the line of the present Clarence Road, behind the Mall Hotel, and crossed Station Road to the Woodhall Spa station, which was sited on the wedge containing the police station and opposite to the post office. The track then continued behind the Broadway shops. Part of the disused railway track now forms part of the long distance footpath, the Viking Way, from the Humber Bridge to Oakham in Leicestershire.
The shops, banks and businesses lining Station Road and the Broadway offer a variety of services and are well able to meet the everyday needs of inhabitants and visitors.
The Golf Hotel at the far end of the Broadway also caters for the needs of the inhabitants and visitors. The building, designed by Came in 1892, originally housed the Clevedon House preparatory school.
Adjacent to the hotel is the 6,300 yard, 18 hole golf course laid down by Harry Vardon and J. H. Taylor in 1905. Later, it was upgraded and is now maintained to championship standards.
Between the Golf Hotel and the Broadway shops is part of Iddesleigh Road, which leads to the Cottage Museum. The aim of the museum is to preserve the community history of Woodhall Spa and district. The nucleus of the exhibits is formed by a collection of photographs and memorabilia of the Wield family, who lived in the building from 1887 until the 1960s.
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The village has some 2,500 inhabitants, an abundance of trees and is situated almost at the centre of Lincolnshire, about 14 miles north of Boston. The road from Lincoln (B1191) crosses the river Witham at Kirkstead Bridge and enters the village along the tree-lined Witham Road. The gravestones and the war memorial at the crossroads mark the site of the first church to be built in the village, St Andrew's (1847 - 1957).
Over the crossroads and adjacent to the car park in Station Road is the memorial to 617 (Dambuster) Squadron, RAF. The memorial was dedicated in 1987 and is in the form of a breached dam. The squadron was based at the wartime airfield of Woodhall Spa shortly after the epic dams raid in 1943.
The memorial and the car park are on the site of the Royal Hydro Hotel and Winter Gardens, designed and developed by the architect, R. A. Came, at the end of the 19th century. His plan was based on a rectangular shopping mall and a straight tree-lined Broadway. The hotel was destroyed by an enemy parachute mine in 1943. The only part to survive is the present Mall Hotel, the half-timbered upper storey of which was a style much favoured by Came.
The track of the Kirkstead to Horncastle branch railway (1855-1971) followed the line of the present Clarence Road, behind the Mall Hotel, and crossed Station Road to the Woodhall Spa station, which was sited on the wedge containing the police station and opposite to the post office. The track then continued behind the Broadway shops. Part of the disused railway track now forms part of the long distance footpath, the Viking Way, from the Humber Bridge to Oakham in Leicestershire.
The shops, banks and businesses lining Station Road and the Broadway offer a variety of services and are well able to meet the everyday needs of inhabitants and visitors.
The Golf Hotel at the far end of the Broadway also caters for the needs of the inhabitants and visitors. The building, designed by Came in 1892, originally housed the Clevedon House preparatory school.
Adjacent to the hotel is the 6,300 yard, 18 hole golf course laid down by Harry Vardon and J. H. Taylor in 1905. Later, it was upgraded and is now maintained to championship standards.
Between the Golf Hotel and the Broadway shops is part of Iddesleigh Road, which leads to the Cottage Museum. The aim of the museum is to preserve the community history of Woodhall Spa and district. The nucleus of the exhibits is formed by a collection of photographs and memorabilia of the Wield family, who lived in the building from 1887 until the 1960s.
Across the disused railway track, a private road passes Rose Cottage, which was built in 1873 as a small cottage hospital for the poor. Beyond this point lies the historic heart of the spa. The Tea House in the Woods still provides refreshments in most pleasant surroundings. A delightful place to relax and recall that in the original part of the building (1903) the Misses Williams once served afternoon tea, sold gifts including their own embroidery and provided a lending library service.
The now deserted Rheumatism Clinic encloses the site of the first spa well. It was here, in 1821, John Parkinson of Bolingbroke started to sink a coal mine shaft. After some two to three years and various disasters the shaft was abandoned and covered over. Legend says that when the shaft flooded and overflowed, cattle drinking the water were cured I of their ailments. Local inhabitants believed the water relieved the symptoms of rheumatism, gout and scurvy. The lord of the manor, Thomas Hotchkin, believed the water to be beneficial for his gout and built the first Pump Room and Bath House and the Victoria Hotel in 1839. Woodhall Spa was born.
In 1922, Captain Allport converted the cricket pavilion into the Pavilion Cinema with aback projection system. The cinema was the 68th cinema to be opened in the country and became known as the 'Kinema in the Woods'. It was patronised by members of the Royal family during their visits to nearby Petwood. Today, the cinema continues to provide regular entertainment for inhabitants and visitors by showing back projected, up to date, films and by live music from the theatre organ.
In its Edwardian heyday, the spa attracted many visitors including Grace Maple, the only child and heiress of Sir John Blundell Maple (of furniture fame). In 1905, she built a country house in her 'petwood' near to the spa baths and set in 40 acres of rhododendron woods and gardens. The house was called Petwood and became the home of the Weigall family when Grace Maple married Captain, later Sir, Archibald Weigall. In 1933 Lady Weigall converted Petwood into an hotel, in an attempt to offset the problems to the spa caused by the loss of the Victoria Hotel by fire in 1920. In 1943, the hotel became the Officers Mess of 617 (Dambusters) Squadron, RAP. Much memorabilia of the squadron is held in the hotel.
The Weigalls also gave the Jubilee Park to the community. The park commemorating the Silver Jubilee of George V, contains a swimming pool, cricket pitch, tennis courts, bowling greens, children's play area and a caravan site.
Along the Tattershall Road/Abbey Lane is the remaining fragment of the Cistercian abbey of Kirkstead (1187). A little distance from the ruins is the chapel of the abbey, now the church of St Leonard. The church is said to be one of the finest examples of 13th century architecture in Lincolnshire.
Some two and a half miles east of the village, along Kirk by Lane, is Ostlers Plantation. It is the remaining part of several hundred acres of oak and Scotch fir trees planted by John Parkinson and later sold to finance the coal mine project. The plantation provides pleasant woodland walks, and remains of the wartime RAP airfield can be seen.
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The village has some 2,500 inhabitants, an abundance of trees and is situated almost at the centre of Lincolnshire, about 14 miles north of Boston. The road from Lincoln (B1191) crosses the river Witham at Kirkstead Bridge and enters the village along the tree-lined Witham Road. The gravestones and the war memorial at the crossroads mark the site of the first church to be built in the village, St Andrew's (1847 - 1957).
Over the crossroads and adjacent to the car park in Station Road is the memorial to 617 (Dambuster) Squadron, RAF. The memorial was dedicated in 1987 and is in the form of a breached dam. The squadron was based at the wartime airfield of Woodhall Spa shortly after the epic dams raid in 1943.
The memorial and the car park are on the site of the Royal Hydro Hotel and Winter Gardens, designed and developed by the architect, R. A. Came, at the end of the 19th century. His plan was based on a rectangular shopping mall and a straight tree-lined Broadway. The hotel was destroyed by an enemy parachute mine in 1943. The only part to survive is the present Mall Hotel, the half-timbered upper storey of which was a style much favoured by Came.
The track of the Kirkstead to Horncastle branch railway (1855-1971) followed the line of the present Clarence Road, behind the Mall Hotel, and crossed Station Road to the Woodhall Spa station, which was sited on the wedge containing the police station and opposite to the post office. The track then continued behind the Broadway shops. Part of the disused railway track now forms part of the long distance footpath, the Viking Way, from the Humber Bridge to Oakham in Leicestershire.
The shops, banks and businesses lining Station Road and the Broadway offer a variety of services and are well able to meet the everyday needs of inhabitants and visitors.
The Golf Hotel at the far end of the Broadway also caters for the needs of the inhabitants and visitors. The building, designed by Came in 1892, originally housed the Clevedon House preparatory school.
Adjacent to the hotel is the 6,300 yard, 18 hole golf course laid down by Harry Vardon and J. H. Taylor in 1905. Later, it was upgraded and is now maintained to championship standards.
Between the Golf Hotel and the Broadway shops is part of Iddesleigh Road, which leads to the Cottage Museum. The aim of the museum is to preserve the community history of Woodhall Spa and district. The nucleus of the exhibits is formed by a collection of photographs and memorabilia of the Wield family, who lived in the building from 1887 until the 1960s.
Across the disused railway track, a private road passes Rose Cottage, which was built in 1873 as a small cottage hospital for the poor. Beyond this point lies the historic heart of the spa. The Tea House in the Woods still provides refreshments in most pleasant surroundings. A delightful place to relax and recall that in the original part of the building (1903) the Misses Williams once served afternoon tea, sold gifts including their own embroidery and provided a lending library service.
The now deserted Rheumatism Clinic encloses the site of the first spa well. It was here, in 1821, John Parkinson of Bolingbroke started to sink a coal mine shaft. After some two to three years and various disasters the shaft was abandoned and covered over. Legend says that when the shaft flooded and overflowed, cattle drinking the water were cured I of their ailments. Local inhabitants believed the water relieved the symptoms of rheumatism, gout and scurvy. The lord of the manor, Thomas Hotchkin, believed the water to be beneficial for his gout and built the first Pump Room and Bath House and the Victoria Hotel in 1839. Woodhall Spa was born.
In 1922, Captain Allport converted the cricket pavilion into the Pavilion Cinema with aback projection system. The cinema was the 68th cinema to be opened in the country and became known as the 'Kinema in the Woods'. It was patronised by members of the Royal family during their visits to nearby Petwood. Today, the cinema continues to provide regular entertainment for inhabitants and visitors by showing back projected, up to date, films and by live music from the theatre organ.
In its Edwardian heyday, the spa attracted many visitors including Grace Maple, the only child and heiress of Sir John Blundell Maple (of furniture fame). In 1905, she built a country house in her 'petwood' near to the spa baths and set in 40 acres of rhododendron woods and gardens. The house was called Petwood and became the home of the Weigall family when Grace Maple married Captain, later Sir, Archibald Weigall. In 1933 Lady Weigall converted Petwood into an hotel, in an attempt to offset the problems to the spa caused by the loss of the Victoria Hotel by fire in 1920. In 1943, the hotel became the Officers Mess of 617 (Dambusters) Squadron, RAP. Much memorabilia of the squadron is held in the hotel.
The Weigalls also gave the Jubilee Park to the community. The park commemorating the Silver Jubilee of George V, contains a swimming pool, cricket pitch, tennis courts, bowling greens, children's play area and a caravan site.
Along the Tattershall Road/Abbey Lane is the remaining fragment of the Cistercian abbey of Kirkstead (1187). A little distance from the ruins is the chapel of the abbey, now the church of St Leonard. The church is said to be one of the finest examples of 13th century architecture in Lincolnshire.
Some two and a half miles east of the village, along Kirk by Lane, is Ostlers Plantation. It is the remaining part of several hundred acres of oak and Scotch fir trees planted by John Parkinson and later sold to finance the coal mine project. The plantation provides pleasant woodland walks, and remains of the wartime RAP airfield can be seen.
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