Roughton Scrubs

Roughton Scrubs
Roughton Scrubs
Location	Lincolnshire, England
Coordinates	53°10′15″N0°9′36″W / 53.17083°N 0.16000°W Coordinates: 53°10′15″N0°9′36″W / 53.17083°N 0.16000°W

Last updated February 19, 2019

Roughton Scrubs is a small woodland beside the B1191 (Horncastle Road) to the north east of the village of Woodhall Spa in Lincolnshire on Roughton Moor. Bordering it to the south west is Big Rouse Holt with the area to the north across Horncastle Road known as The Wilderness where can be found evidence of medieval Ridge and Furrow farming surrounding the embankment of the long abandoned Woodhall Spa to Horncastle railway.

Woodhall Spa is a civil parish and village in Lincolnshire, England, on the southern edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds, 6 miles (10 km) south-west of Horncastle, 15 miles (24 km) east-south-east of Lincoln and 17 miles (27 km) north-west of Boston. It is noted for its mineral springs, cinema and its Second World War association with the RAF 617 Squadron. The cinema has the last remaining rear screen projector in the country.

Lincolnshire is a county in eastern England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders Northamptonshire in the south for just 20 yards (18 m), England's shortest county boundary. The county town is the city of Lincoln, where the county council has its headquarters.

Ridge and furrow is an archaeological pattern of ridges and troughs created by a system of ploughing used in Europe during the Middle Ages, typical of the open field system. It is also known as rigand furrow, mostly in the North East of England and in Scotland.

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