Torksey

Torksey is a municipality ( parish ) and an administrative district ( ward ) on the western border of the English county of Lincolnshire in the West Lindsey District. The place Torksey lies on the east bank of the River Trent. At the 2001 census, 551 inhabitants were determined for the municipality and 2,342 for the County Torksey.

History

Attractions

On the southern edge of the village situated on the banks of the Trent, the ruins of Torksey Castle. This is a mansion of 1560, which was destroyed during the English Civil War ( 1642-1649 ). Royalist troops burned the mansion down in August 1645. Only the west front and part of the rear wall are still preserved. Construction materials are mainly brick, which was faced with limestone blocks. The floor plan of the destruction was square, affiliated with flanking turrets, facade and corners.

In Torksey the old railway line from Sheffield to Lincoln crosses the Trent. The track is to be decommissioned in 1959, but the bridge was built in 1849 as a monument under protection. It is one of the first box girder bridges at all. Its builder, the railway engineer John Fowler (1817-1898), later also built among others, the cantilever bridge over the Firth of Forth, which is used to this day and is considered to be extremely stable, and two railway bridges over the Severn at Coalbrookdale and Upper Arley, the both - today are still in use - also in box girder design.

Environment

In the near Torksey on the other side of the Trent, and thus in Nottinghamshire, the Cottam Power Station, a coal-fired power plant with 2,080 MW capacity, built in 1969 is located.

South of Torksey begins the Foss Dyke, the oldest usable channel of England. It was built in 120 AD by the Romans in the year, connecting the Rivers Trent and Witham each other and leads to of Torksey to Lincoln.

Sports

North of Torksey is the Lincoln Golf Club, which is a resident here since 1903.