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Ewerby and Evedon is a Civil Parish in North Kesteven, Lincolnshire, England. It includes the villages of Ewerby and Evedon, the hamlet of Haverholme, and is situated immediately west of Sleaford. ==Geography== The northern boundary of the parish follows the course of the Sleaford Navigation, and the old course of the River Slea runs within the parish from west to east, joining the navigation The extreme western tip of the parish pushes into Sleaford and the eastern side is demarked by a short section of the Navigation, and further by a minor drain continuous with it, the Midfodder dike (a local name for the Roman Car Dyke). The Southern edge, along Ewerby Fen, is traced by a field drain and the ''Hodge Dyke'', which is drained into the Car Dyke by a .〔 The tapering western tip of the parish is traversed by the ''Sleaford avoiding line'' of the railway, and the A17 ''Sleaford bypass''.〔 At the North Eastern corner of the parish the place-names ''Ferry Lane'' and ''Ferry Farm'' point to the former ferry over the modern Slea Navigation.〔 Most of the parish is about above sea level, only Ewerby village itself rising above , and in places above altitude. The Parish is generally open fields, with some woodland, one of whose names belies their purpose: .〔〔 Throughout the parish the bedrock is a Jurassic Sedimentary mudstone, of the ''Oxford clay'' formation. This is covered with Glacial Till from the quaternary ice age. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Geoelogy of Britain viewer )zoom to the location, and click to identify the strata〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ewerby and Evedon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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