| Official Name: | Friskney Eaudyke |
| Static Image Name: | Wesleyan Centenary Chapel, Friskney, Lincs - geograph.org.uk - 86059.jpg |
| Static Image Caption: | Wesleyan Centenary Chapel, Friskney Eaudyke |
| Country: | England |
| Region: | East Midlands |
| Population: | 1,563 |
| Os Grid Reference: | TF473559 |
| Coordinates: | 53.0801°N 0.1989°W |
| Post Town: | BOSTON |
| Postcode Area: | PE |
| Postcode District: | PE22 |
| Dial Code: | 01754 |
| Civil Parish: | Friskney |
| London Distance Mi: | 105 |
| London Direction: | S |
Friskney Eaudyke is a settlement in the civil parish of Friskney, and the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is 11miles north-east from Boston and 30miles east-southeast from the city and county town of Lincoln.
Friskney Eaudyke is 1miles east from the parish village of Friskney, and the same distance north-east from the parish hamlet of Fold Hill. The A52 road, which runs locally from Boston to Skegness, is 800yd south-east.[1] The settlement is centred on the northwest-to-southeast Eau Dyke Road, between Low Road at the north-west and the staggered junction with Sickling Lane and Chapel Lane at the south-east. Friskney Eaudyke comprises detached and semidetached houses, farms with associated buildings, a farm produce distribution company, a balloon supply & event company, a garage services company, and Grade II listed buildings.[1]
The listed Bridge Farmhouse, a late 18th-century two-storey red brick house, is on Low Road south from the junction with Eau Dyke Road. Over the junction and further north on Low Road is Ash Tree Farmhouse, a mid-18th to mid-19th-century gabled red brick house. At the north on Mill Lane off Low Road, and near the border with Wainfleet St Mary, is Hoyle's Windmill, of three-storeys and today converted to a storehouse by the addition of an attached building. Largely early 19th-century, it dates from 1730.[2] At the south-west on Chapel Lane is the Grade II* listed 19th-century red brick Wesleyan Centenary Chapel, dating to 1839.[3]
In 1871 "Ancient British" pottery, and fragments of bone were found by workmen on Eaudyke Road at the south-east of the settlement.[4] Kelly's Directory in 1885 noted the 1871 archeological finds by workmen as they were building the infants' school at 'Eaudyke'. The directory records a schoolmistress, and the Wesleyan chapel which it said was built in 1832.[5] The listed trades at 'Eaudyke' in the 1933 Kelly's Directory included five farmers, a potato merchant, a saddler, a beer retailer, a shopkeeper, a grocer, a butcher, a baker, and a motor engineer.[6]