Ewerby and Evedon


Ewerby and Evedon is a civil Parish in North Kesteven, Lincolnshire, England. It includes the villages of Ewerby and Evedon, the hamlet of Haverholme, and is situated immediately west of Sleaford.
The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 509.

Geography

The northern boundary of the parish follows the course of the Sleaford Navigation, and the old course of the River Slea runs within the parish from west to east, joining the navigation The extreme western tip of the parish pushes into Sleaford and the eastern side is demarked by a short section of the Navigation, and further by a minor drain continuous with it, the Midfodder dike. The Southern edge, along Ewerby Fen, is traced by a field drain and the Hodge Dyke, which is drained into the Car Dyke by a.
The tapering western tip of the parish is traversed by the Sleaford avoiding line of the railway, and the A17 Sleaford bypass. At the North Eastern corner of the parish the place-names Ferry Lane and Ferry Farm point to the former ferry over the modern Slea Navigation.
Most of the parish is about above sea level, only Ewerby village itself rising above, and in places above altitude. The Parish is generally open fields, with some woodland, one of whose names belies their purpose:.
Throughout the parish the bedrock is a Jurassic Sedimentary mudstone, of the Oxford clay formation. This is covered with Glacial Till from the quaternary ice age.

Settlements