See
Caistor St.
Edmund
for the Roman settlement in Norfolk or Caister-on-Sea
for the town in Norfolk
Caistor is a Georgian
town situated in Lincolnshire
, England
and was, as
its name implies, originally a Roman fortress. Only a few fragments of
the fourth century walls remain, for example, the original Roman
wall is visible on the southern boundary of the Parish Church of
St. Peter and St. Paul. The area occupied by the
fortress is now classified as a
Scheduled Ancient Monument. The
church of St. Peter and St. Paul which is enclosed within the
fortress has an Anglo-Saxon tower. The
market square lies at the heart of a
conservation area which contains 56,
mainly grade II listed buildings. In numerical terms, thenumber of
listed buildings makes Caistor the most important Conservation Area
in the West Lindsey area, many of the buildings are Georgian or
Victorian.
Caistor
lies on the North Western edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds
, an area of outstanding natural beauty (AONB) on
the Viking
Way
long-distance
footpath just off the A46 between Lincoln and Grimsby at the
A46 / A1084 / A1173 / B1225 Junction. It has a population of
around 2,600 people.
Sir
Henry Newbolt, author of "
Drake's Drum", was educated at Caistor's old
Grammar School.
Notable buildings in
the town include Caistor Grammar School
, founded in 1633, and Sessions House
, built in 1662.
Its name comes from
Anglo-Saxon
ceaster = "
Roman camp" or
"town".
Education
Caistor has well performing schools at both Primary and Secondary
School age.
Grammar School
Caistor Grammar
School is a successful endowed Foundation school with a selective student
intake, dating from the reign of Charles I. A
Sports College under the
specialist schools programme in
England, the school continues to be one of the best performing
schools in Lincolnshire, with consistently high rankings in
national league tables.
Yarborough School
Caistor
Yarborough School
is a mixed comprehensive school named in memorial
to John Edward Pelham, the 7th Earl
of Yarborough. Having a maximum limit of 570 number, the
school is much smaller than the average school of this type in the
UK and is successful in achieving above average exam results for a
school of this type. The School has
Arts
College status under the
specialist schools programme in
England.
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