Drinsey Nook
We were recently contacted by Paul Kidd of Hunstanton asking if we could provide any information on a postcard which had come into his possession. Not only did we supply him with Drinsey Nook’s interesting history, but he sent us the card for our collection. We may receive further enquiries from him, as he is a postcard collector with over 30,000 cards in his collection. Drinsey Nook, a small hamlet of a few houses, straddles the border of Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire. It sits on the banks of the Foss Navigation at the junction of the A57 Lincoln to Worksop Road and the A156 Lincoln to Gainsborough Road. The name is derived from the Danish ‘ Drenges Eye,’ meaning ‘Dreng’s Island.’ Like ‘Saxilby’ (Saxulf’s Farmstead), the name would have been given by Danish settlers following the Viking invasions of eastern England in the 8 th and 9 th centuries. Vikings came from the whole of Scandinavia. They did not have horns on their helmets (a Victorian invention!). The name means ‘sea