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Caistor Canal

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Caistor Canal: Reference

Caistor Civic Society

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Web Site

Caistor Development Partnership & Trust

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CAISTOR DIRECTORY 

Caistor Directory - Please help us keep the directory up to date. Send an email to roy@caistor.net with any changes or additions. Updated, printed directories in A5 booklet form are available for £2.75 each. Send a cheque or money order to Datum House Ltd, 12 North Kelsey Road, Caistor, Lincolnshire, LN76QH.

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CGS Getogether 11-Oct-06

Articles:

Old Caistorians' 1999 Mag.
1960 Case against school closure
1960 Protest March to Lincoln

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Caistor History Group

Program of Events - 2011
Program of Events - 2010-11
Caistor Electors 1939 (CSV-Text file)
Caistor History Group Web Page
Vision of Britain Through Time
Caistor Parish Records
Caistor Pre-History Finds and Sites

Caistor Hospital

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Caistor Library

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Caistor Lions

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Caistor Multi-Use Centre

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Caistor Neighbourhood Policing Team

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Caistor Primary School

Home Page
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Caistor Sports & Social Club

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History of the Sports Ground

Caistor Town Council

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Caistor Parish Records

Caistor Town Plan

Town Plan - May 2010

Caistor Town Hall & Arts Centre

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Email: townhall@caistor.net
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Email: arts@iartsco-caistor.co.uk

Caistor Twinning Association

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Caistor Yarborough School

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Historical Buildings

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NatWest Bank
Parish Church of St. Peter & St. Paul
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Historical Information

1681 - The Great Fire
1904 - Beginnings of a Bus Service
Alfred Lord Tennyson
A History of Caistor
Caer-Corrie Early British Kingdoms
Caistor Chairs
Caistor Chairs
Caistor Conservation Area Appraisal 2008
Caistor Grammar School Records 1631 - 1932
Caistor in 1839
Caistor Rural District Council
GENUKI - Caistor Pages
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Historical Notes by P.B.G Binnall F.S.A.
Imperial Gazette Report 1870-72
Key Dates in Caistor's History
Newspaper Clippings 1834 - 1891
New Zealand Emmigration in the 1870's
Pelhams Pillar
R.A.F. Caistor
Racing at Caistor
R.A.F. Caistor Photographs
Simon Zelotes - Disciple and Martyr
The Bells of St. Peter & St. Paul
The Pilgrimage of Grace
Thor Missile Site at former RAF Caistor
Vision of Britain - Caistor
What happened to Simon Zelotes
White's Directory1856
William Pybus Clock

Maps

Google Map of Caistor
Multimap of Caistor
Street Map of Caistor

Methodist Church

Market Rasen & Caistor Circuit Website

Neighbourhood Plan

Neighbourhood Plan

Parish Church of St. Peter & St. Paul

Website

Rainbow Pre-school

Details

Red Lion Development

Development Details
Property Prices

Sports Ground

Sports & Social Club
History from 1944 to 1999

Springs Church Lincolnshire

Web Site

Sustainable Caistor

Useful Links / Information
Update 5th October 2010>
Bird Survey Results 2011

Theatre, Live, in Caistor

Lorraine Ayensu in Concert - Wed 17th Mar 2010 @ 7.30pm Handful Of Henna - Thu 29th Apr 2010 @ 7.30pm

Tourist Information

Heritage Trust of Lincolnshire
West Lindsey Tourism
Lincolnshire
The Viking Way
Wolds Walk - AA Walk link

Travel

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West Lindsey District Council

Aurora Mapping Facility
Market Rasen Area Office
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Planning Decision Notices 2005
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Dog Fouling - Legal Notice
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Non-Domestic Rate Relief

Wolds Leisure

Web Site
Lincolnshire Sports Partnership

Exchange Information
Genealogy Data Collection Form (excel)

Datum House Photo Galleries
Caistor Buildings
Caistor Photo Albums
Photo Albums by Alan Cain
Caistor Goes to Hollywood 2005
Caistor in Bloom 2005
Lincolnshire Churches

Caistor is an attractive Georgian market town with a history dating back to Roman times and beyond. It is unique in it's architecture and location and is regularly described by experts as a 'jewel'. It has 56 Grade II listed buildings, two Scheduled Ancient Monuments and over 160 significant archaeological finds. In numerical terms, the number of listed buildings makes Caistor the most important Conservation Area in West Lindsey. It is ideally situated for residents and business alike with easy access to the whole of the North Lincolnshire area being located on the north western edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds, in an Area of Great Landscape Value (AGLV) and adjacent to an area of outstanding natural beauty (AONB), on the Viking Way just off the A46 between Lincoln and Grimsby at the A46 / A1084 / A1173 / B1225 Junction. Humberside International Airport is only 7.5 miles away, M180: 9 miles, Port of Immingham: 12 miles, Grimsby: 13 miles, Scunthorpe: 17 miles, Lincoln: 25 miles, Hull: 26 miles, M18: 35 miles, M62: 42 miles, A1(M): 46 miles, M1: 58 miles.

The original Roman wall can be seen on the southern boundary of the Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul which dates back to saxon times.

The town has 4 excellent schools: Caistor Yarborough, Caistor C of E &Methodist Primary School, Caistor Grammar School founded in 1631 which is one of the most highly respected in the country and Lincolnshire Montessori.
The original town was ravaged by fire in 1681 and the present buildings in the town centre date from that time. The Sessions House previously occupied by the WRVS was built in 1662 and was one of the few buildings which survived the fire. The town centre consists of a street pattern based on a series of interconnecting squares; Market Place, Butter Market, Cornhill and Horse Market.

The largest sheep fairs in England were held in Caistor in 1858 when 60,000 sheep were sold.

An Act of Parliament in 1793 authorised the construction of the Caistor Canal for exporting the surplus agricultural produce of North Lincolnshire. The canal ran from the New River Ancholme near Creampoke in Kelsey Carrs (4 miles south of Brigg) in an easterly direction to Moortown (3 miles west of Caistor). It is 4 miles long and has 6 locks. The canal never reached Caistor but was opened about 1800. It was not used after 1855 and was officially abandoned in 1936. Navigation Lane which was to be the route of the canal is now a road which serves a number of housing developments to the West of the town.

Caistor was for many years the administrative centre for the whole North Lincolnshire area and was head of a rural district and county court district and also a petty sessional division, instituted in 1890. All births, deaths and marriages for the Great Grimsby, Caistor and Market Rasen Districts were registered here until 1936. The Registrar still carries out that function for the Caistor area from their office in South Dale.

Caistor Rural District Council had it's offices at 19 South Street before it moved to the purpose built offices in South Dale where it remained until local government re-organisation in 1974 when it became West Lindsey District Council (WLDC) and it's headquarters moved to Gainsborough, some 27 miles away. The Magistrates Court Service used the premises at 19 South Street until it's closure in 2003. Lincolnshire County Council have converted the building in to a Multi-Use Centre and offices, which opened on 7th October 2006.

During the second world war from 1940 - 45, Caistor was an RAF base firstly being used by 264 Squadron flying Defiant night-fighters and later undertook a training role under the control of the RAF Flying College at Cranwell. The station was returned to agricultural use in 1945 but was used again by the RAF between 1959 and 1963 in the role of a Thor missile base. Today the site is once more used for agriculture.

The town has a population of 2,700. Market day is Saturday and early closing day is Wednesday although many  shops do not adhere to this any more.