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View from the Pyewipe as a boat turns up
Catching
a boat back Reaching the destination of the Pyewipe Inn can
allow you the chance of either a meal - if you arrive during serving times
or a drink and if you talk with the Captain of Cathedral City Cruises before
you leave the Brayford Pool you can arrange to be picked up for a cruise
back along the canal.
Cathedral
City cruises can be found next to the Royal William IV pub on the Brayford
Pool and run from 11am - 4pm Monday - Sunday. These daily trips are run
from Easter until early October.
The boat turning for its return
trip
The return walk can equally rewarding and taken at a
leisurely pace the walk both ways should take you less than an hour.
The word Pyewipe came from the local colloquial expression for a Plover
or Lapwing often found around the low-lying areas of Lincolnshire, and
the Inn was first licensed in 1778.
It was called Pyewipe House in those days and mainly
served the numerous sailing barges traversing the Fossedyke. By 1804 the
maps show it as Pyewipe Inn, the Inn being officially brought under the
Justices Licensing Act in 1897.
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