HISTORY OF DECOYS. | ||
| For now the very outline of most of these ancient Decoys is gone, and luxuriant
grain-fields flourish where previously a wilderness of reeds
and stagnant, bird-haunted waters stretched far and near. Broughton Decoy, 3 miles NNW. of Glamford Briggs, in Broughton Carrs, on the W. bank of the Wear Dyke, near the River Trent. Disused for 45 years, as stated by the old Decoyman who last worked it, and who is now living. Appleby village is 3½ miles SE. of this pool. The remains of the Broughton Decoy are plainly visible. It was 2 acres in size, and had six pipes, the whole enclosure being 10 acres. Keadby Decoy, 2½ miles SE. of Crowle, 1½ WNW. of Keadby, a village on the left bank of the Trent. The Decoy is situate ½ a mile N. of the Stainforth and Keadby Canal. Little trace of it now remains, as the waste ground on which it was then placed is now drained and cultivated. Great Cotes Decoy, 2½ miles WSW. of Grimsby, close to Laceby Beck, a stream which divides Great from Little Cotes, and near Towns Holtwood Plantation, formerly known as Wyber's. The pool has vanished under cultivation, and has not been in use for 80 years. | ||
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