01/10/2026
Celebrating our wonderful county today!
This is St James’s Church, Louth surrounded by the beautiful Lincolnshire Wolds - some days you can even see the Sea from here 🌊
Lincolnshire Day originally celebrates the Lincolnshire Rising that began on 1st October 1536 (490 years ago!) where a rebellion began at St James’s Church against Henry VIII and the dissolution of the monasteries.
Louth’s Vicar (Thomas Kendall) and Donington on Bain’s Vicar (Peter Page) were both subsequently executed for treason.
This rebellion inspired the later Pilgrimage of Grace.
Henry VIII in October 1536 famously called Lincolnshire “one of the most brute and beestelie of the hole realme”! 😂
❤️💚💙💛