DR. TROUGHT'S JUMP pictures of simple pastoral beauty than this byway through "Haugham Pastures." A deep lane near the little brick-built manor-house is noticeable as the site of a famous jump. The roadway is about fifteen feet wide, with steep sides and a low hedge, the top of which is nine or ten feet above the roadway. Over these Dr. Trought of Louth, on a famed hunter, once jumped for a wager, flying from field to field, a distance of some twenty feet.
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The Lud at Louth.
One of the charming peculiarities of Cawthorpe is that here the "Long Eau" stream runs between hedge-banks over a level sand and gravel bed and forms a water street, which extends for about a furlong. There is a similar thing at Swaby, six miles to the south, where the "Great Eau" runs along a
