Attractions

Attractions

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  • Lincolnshire Wolds AONB – Lincolnshire’s best kept secret, rivalling the Yorkshire Wolds for beauty
  • Lincolnshire Coast
  • Lincolnshire Fens
  • Donna Nook – the venue for one of nature’s great spectacles when seals come ashore in November to have their pups
  •  Gibraltar Point National Nature Reserve (12 miles)
  • RSPB Freiston Shore (16 miles)
  • Fishing lakes in the area
  • Horncastle (10 miles) – one of the country’s best antiques towns and birthplace of botanist Sir Joseph Banks
  • wp3551e5ed_05_06Louth (14 miles) – known as the capital of the Wolds and a “foodie” haven
  • Caistor (36 miles) – attractive Roman walled market town on the western escarpment of the Wolds
  • Alford (6 miles) – summer craft market – home to a dramatic five-sailed windmill – Alford Manor House (one of England’s largest thatched manor houses)
  • Woodhall Spa (16 miles) –  unique Kinema in the Woods, build in 1922, still using back projection and an original Compton organ.
  • Woodhall Spa – War Weekend
  • Wainfleet (15 miles), the home of family brewery Batemans who have been producing award-winning beers since 1874
  • Lincoln (32 miles) – Stunning Cathedral – Norman castle housing the Magna Carta and fine Roman gates
  • Somersby (6 miles) – birthplace of Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Gunby Hall (4 miles) – National Trust
  • Spilsby (1.5 miles) – birthplace of Sir John Franklin, the Arctic explorer.
  • wped16302a_05_06Cadwell Park race circuit (12 miles)
  •  Market Rasen (28 miles)
  • The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Visitor Centre is at RAF Coningsby (16 miles)
  • The Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre at East Kirkby (5 miles) is the only place in the country to see a Lancaster bomber on its original airfield and ride in it! The Dambusters flew from RAF Scampton, RAF Conningsby, RAF Woodhall Spa and RAF Waddington.