Nettleton, Lincolnshire
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Nettleton is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England close to the town of Caistor. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 579.
In the village is a post office and village shop, a primary school, a Methodist Church and several pubs.
The nearby Woodland Trust Nettleton Wood offers extensive country walks and the Nettleton Park caravan park.[1]
On Boxing Day, shoemakers would traditionally "beat the lapstone" at the house of any "water drinkers" (ie. teetotaller, to mock them. This refers to a story from the 18th Century in which a Nettleton resident called Thomas Stickler, who had stayed off alcohol for twenty years, got tipsy after half a pint of ale at his shoemaker's on Christmas day. When questioned by his wife, he replied that he was not drunk but had simply fallen "over the lapstone". Hence, the day after every Christmas, shoemakers would carry out the above practical joke.[2] [3]
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