Drinsey Nook is a small village in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately 2 miles (3 km) south-west from Saxilby, close to the county border with Nottinghamshire. The village sits on the bank of the Foss Dyke, a canal which runs from the River Trent at Torksey to the River Witham in Lincoln. The population of the village is included in the civil parish of Kettlethorpe.
| Drinsey Nook | |
|---|---|
 Tom Otter's Bridge | |
 The Foss Dyke, frosted over | |
  Drinsey Nook Location within Lincolnshire | |
| OS grid reference | SK870743 |
| • London | 153 mi (246 km) S |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Lincoln |
| Postcode district | LN1 |
| Police | Lincolnshire |
| Fire | Lincolnshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| UK Parliament | |
The main building is the former Drinsey Nook Inn which is actually situated in Nottinghamshire; this was previously known as the 'Buffalo Inn' on old Ordnance Survey maps.
Drinsey Nook is notable for Tom Otter, a man who murdered his new wife in 1805. Otter, reputedly from Treswell, was already a married when he married his wife, Mary, whom he murdered the same day near the bridge that now bears his name. He was hanged in 1806, and was held in a Gibbet post adjacent to Gibbet Wood.[1][2] Tom Otter lane is the B1190 running south from the village, and Tom Otters Bridge is named after the site of the murder.[2][3]
More recently it has been the location of a case of modern slavery.[4][5]
References
edit- ^ The handbook guide to lincoln and business intelligencer (3 ed.). R. E. Leary. 1855. p. 64.
- ^ a b "Tom Otter - Fact or Fiction?". Saxilby and District History Group. 2013. Archived from the original on 5 October 2013. Retrieved 9 April 2013.
- ^ Pickering, W (1848). The Gentleman's Magazine (Vol 30 ed.). p. 296.
- ^ Halliday, Josh; Adam, Humairah (12 September 2017). "11 family members in Lincolnshire jailed in 'chilling' slavery case". Guardian Newspapers. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
- ^ "Rooney family slavery gang ordered to pay victims £1m". BBC News. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
External links
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Media related to Drinsey Nook at Wikimedia Commons- The Tale Of Tom Otter
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