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During frosty weather, constant attention was required at night, after the decoy had 'risen,' to break and remove the ice, thus keeping the water open as an attraction for the Ducks, without which they would desert the decoy in hard weather. Subsequently Hall set up as a cow-leech, and ended his days as a dealer in second-hand books at Lynn, his 'Antiquarian Library' being situated near the 'Globe Hotel,' in a street leading from the Tuesday Market-place to Common Staithe Quay."

    The Author makes no apology for this dissertation on Fens and Fenmen, as both are so closely connected with the subject of Decoys.

Decoys in use.

ASHBY.

Decoys not in use.

Bourne.
Bourne.
Cowbit.
Fleet.
Dowsby.
Aslackby.
Millyard Farm.
Sempringharn Fen (3).
South Kyme.
North Kyme.
Timberland.
Nocton Hall.
Friskney (5).
Hagnaby.
Wainfleet St. Mary's (2).
Wrangle (3).
Leake.
Skellingthorpe.
Burton Hall.
South CarIton.
South Kelsey.
Farlsthorpe.
Broughton.
Keadby.
Great Cotes.
   Ashby Decoy, 6½ miles WNW. of Brigg, in the parish of Bottesford, 4½ miles SW. of Frodingham Station, on the Grimsby and Doncaster branch of the M. S. and L. Railway, and 2 miles from the right bank of the River Trent at Althorpe, to the left of the road from Ashby to Burringham Ferry.


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