Our pictorial sign shows The Car Dyke,
St Andrews Church ,a trees which is in the old Manor House
& the local Lincolnshire Red Cows .

What is a Yellowbelly?

For years, anyone born and bred in the county of Lincolnshire has been known as a Yellowbelly. Here are some of the mythical explanations why.
If there's one thing you can say about true yellowbellies, it's that they're an argumentative lot. The easiest way to prove this is to ask them where the name 'yellowbelly' came from.Farmers

During summer the farmers would often work without their shirts on (the saucy devils). As they tended the fields they would be bent over, and get a lovely suntan on their back. Their fronts however would be in the shadows the whole time and so would stay white. The reflection of the corn is said to have given a yellow hue to their bellies.
Mail Coach

The mail coach that ran from Lincoln to London had a yellow undercarriage. Upon it's arrival in London it is said that the locals would call out "Here comes the Lincolnshire yellowbelly". Geoffrey Alan Wildman assures us that this is the real reason, although he tells me that the coach went from Lincoln to York.
Sheep

The traditional breed of sheep in the county is the Lincoln Longwool. As the name suggests, it's fleece was, well, long. It looked rather like the sheep in question had a bad perm.

These sheep would often graze in the fields of mustard that were once a common sight around Lincolnshire. As their shaggy coat dragged along the ground it would pick up pollen from the mustard flowers and give them, you've guessed it, a yellow belly.