Discover the village and surrounding landscape of Billinghay, birthplace of Lincolnshire’s ‘forgotten’ author and poet Bernard Samuel Gilbert (1882 – 1927).

The day consists of walks in and around the village, an exhibition in Billinghay church and a talk in the evening about Bernard Gilbert’s writing.

The walks are part of the NKDC walking festival.

WALK ONE – 9.30 am Walcott and Catley Abbey

WALK TWO – 2.00 pm Tattershall Bridge

WALK THREE – 5.00 pm Billinghay Village

EXHIBITION – 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm Billinghay Church

TALK – 7.00 pm Searching for ‘Gilbert Country’ with Professor Andrew Jackson at Billinghay Church Community Room.

Billinghay-born Bernard Gilbert has been largely forgotten by his home county of Lincolnshire and he has been over-shadowed by the County’s more famous writer Alfred Lord Tennyson.

Thanks to the publication of Professor Andrew J H Jackson’s book and associated talks and events, Gilbert is finally being rediscovered and celebrated.

Come along to Gilbert’s village of birth, Billinghay, and hear Professor Jackson argue the case for a ‘Gilbert Country’ which stretches across Lincolnshire and into Norfolk and East Yorkshire.

About Gilbert: Bernard Samuel Gilbert was an outstanding author whose name is all but forgotten today. Gilbert was born in Billinghay in Lincolnshire in 1882 and was returned there for burial following his death in 1927. He wrote prolifically from around the age of thirty up until his death in 1945. Gilbert’s literature spans poetry, novels, plays, agriculture, political pamphlets and newspaper columns. He wrote of contemporary Lincolnshire and rural England, life and work on the land and country customs and beliefs.