From the parts where I spent my first years -- the first three stations out of Louth on the "Mablethorpe loop line" (that part of same, closed 1960): Grimoldby, Saltfleetby, and Theddlethorpe. Testimony to the big Danish presence in that part of England many centuries ago. And not very far away, on the Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway's east -- west route between Spalding and Bourne: the three stations in a row, of North Drove, Counter Drain, and Twenty (the last, serving a hamlet named after the Twenty Foot Drain); greatly -- if not very accurately -- suggestive to me, of wild and remote, sparsely inhabited wetland regions.
