County News

[Big Jenny]

I've solved the crossword, but I can't work out the anagram. Can anyone help?

NWRNEINYH

- re-arrange the letters to give a feature of Lincolnshire.

BJ

[amalgam]

Henry Winn, a writer of whom I'd never heard, but Google has!

[Big Jenny]

Thank you, amalgam. I just wasn't thinking of a person's name, only places or landmarks etc. Never would have got that.

BJ

[Aloysius535]

HENRY WINN
Fulletby, near to the market town of Horncastle is a tranquil village and is famed as being the birthplace of Henry Winn, prolific writer and poet. Winn grew up in the village, one of six children of the village's shoemaker. At first he followed his father into shoemaking, and then became master at the local school. In 1880 he gave this up and began to record village history and the life of Lincolnshire people, places and customs which were set down in numerous volumes of notebooks. Winn died in 1914 at the age of 98.

[amalgam]

The Lincolnshire County News has got much more cunning with its anagrams recently. BTW, I get the impression that quite a large proportion of the contributors here live in the East Midlands, e.g. the Air Ambulance Quiz features quite regularly.

[Big Jenny]

They are cunning little blighters, it's true, amalgam, but I'm not sure they're right to describe a person as a "feature" of Lincolnshire. I think of a feature as being a well-known building or landmark, even a town or village perhaps, which is one of the reasons I didn't even try to make a person's name out of the anagram. I'll know another time.

BJ

[lucca]

I was just about to put this question on! Thank u to the clever people who knew the answer. I do think it's a bit odd to call a person a "feature" though!