More Than Just a Map - A Guide to the Heart of Goxhill
A record of our village
A quarter of a century has passed since the last major mapping project in 2001. In those 25 years, our village has grown and changed significantly. You’ll notice some notes in red on the new maps—these are areas where we need your local knowledge to confirm a name or location.
Help us finalize this 2026 record by becoming a Village Verifier. We need residents to check for new developments and houses that have been given names without appearing on official digital maps. If you spot a red note in your neighborhood, help us verify the details so we can keep Goxhill connected and preserve our village identity.
The Delivery Nightmare
If you’ve lived here for sixty minutes or sixty years, you know the struggle. GPS coordinates are routinely wrong, leading to the daily "Where is my parcel?" posts on the Goxhill Grapevine and your Sainsburys delivery driver going around in circles. It reached the point where our local EVRI driver, Carl, has had to spend hours of his own time at the Memorial Hall just so residents could come and hunt for their own Christmas deliveries.
Shoehorned and Split
Goxhill is being transformed. In 2001, Keigar Homes was already busy buying up land. We fought to save the Brocklesby Hunt - our last pub - and we failed. Now, houses named "The Brocklesby" and "The Hunt" stand where the pub once was. Since that 2001 snapshot, the village has seen habitual planning applications made by developers constantly banging on our doorstep. Large plots and farmland are being divided for new builds, with new houses shoehorned into gaps and tucked down private lanes that Google doesn't even know exist.
A Heritage of Mapping
The first village ‘House Name Locator’ was published by the Gander Team and helpers in 1992. The hand drawn maps with all house names included was a big task in itself, but it was just a part of a comprehensive 60-page ‘Guide to Goxhill’ which listed everything from history to local shops, services, and places of interest. Sadly, such directories become out of date all too soon. In 2001, the Gander launched the Millennium Project with an updated House Locator. Today, we have spent days painstakingly re-creating these illustrations from scratch with modern views to reflect our village in 2026.
