Halfway between Lincoln and Peterborough on the A15, Folkingham is an old coaching stop with a marketplace still surrounded by eighteenth-century stone houses and cottages. We are lucky to have a pub, a village shop and delicatessen, and a chocolate shop. Folkingham is an excellent base for visiting the many historic houses nearby, Belton House, Belvoir Castle, Burghley House, Grimsthorpe Castle, Woolsthorpe Manor, Doddington Hall, and Stamford, a fascinating and beautiful old market town. There are interesting gardens, good country walks and a magnificent collection of old churches in the villages nearby. There are lots of guides and maps here to help you plan your visits.

Like many old houses, ours has grown over the centuries. The back rooms formed the earliest, seventeenth-century farm-house, when the market place was a busy area with two ponds and a market cross and hall. Around 1790, more rooms were added and the front of the house faced with stone, like many of the other houses around the market place. Until the breaking up and sale of the village in 1920, the house was part of the Folkingham Estate owned by the Heathcote family.

The White House served as a Land Army hostel during World War II, housed an antiques business in the 1970’s and had a recording studio on the top floor in the 1980’s. We moved here in 1990 with our two sons and our book business. The sons have grown up and moved away, the book business continues, and since 2004 the B & B has provided us with much interest and good company