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A duck sitting on Gowts Bridge which carries the High Street over Great Gowt Drainage Dyke in Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
The Great Gowt Drainage Dyke which runs from the River Witham along Boultham Avenue underneath the High Street at Gowts Bridge and then alongside Sewell’s Walk until it heads into the Sincil Dyke.
Documents record the Great Gowt from the 13th century onwards, but it has been suggested that it was constructed in the early/mid 10th century to provide drainage and act as a defensive barrier for the northern part of Wigford, Upper Wigford. Originally it would have run into the pre-Sincil Dyke area of marsh and water east of the High Street.
Twin bridges existed in this location in medieval times, and were called West Gowt Bridge and East Gowt Bridge. West Gowt Bridge was repaired with stone from St Augustines Church in 1566. A drawing of 1790 by W Nutter shows the bridges as humped single arch spans with a stretch of open river and banks between. These bridges were either rebuilt or were joined together between 1813-17, to form one wide bridge with rebuilding of the upper parts to level out the humps.
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A duck sitting on Gowts Bridge which carries the High Street over Great Gowt Drainage Dyke in Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
The Great Gowt Drainage Dyke which runs from the River Witham along Boultham Avenue underneath the High Street at Gowts Bridge and then alongside Sewell’s Walk until it heads into the Sincil Dyke.
Documents record the Great Gowt from the 13th century onwards, but it has been suggested that it was constructed in the early/mid 10th century to provide drainage and act as a defensive barrier for the northern part of Wigford, Upper Wigford. Originally it would have run into the pre-Sincil Dyke area of marsh and water east of the High Street.
Twin bridges existed in this location in medieval times, and were called West Gowt Bridge and East Gowt Bridge. West Gowt Bridge was repaired with stone from St Augustines Church in 1566. A drawing of 1790 by W Nutter shows the bridges as humped single arch spans with a stretch of open river and banks between. These bridges were either rebuilt or were joined together between 1813-17, to form one wide bridge with rebuilding of the upper parts to level out the humps.