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At Alford Five Sailed Windmill you can see and hear the centuries old stone grinding process and enjoy views of the Lincolnshire Wolds. A full range of stone ground flours (milled from organic wheat) is available, also cereals, exclusive preserves an...
Alford Manor House is reputedly the largest thatched manor house in the country, Alford Manor House was built to a traditional H plan in 1611. It is a very rare example of a composite structure, featuring a wooden frame with reed and plaster (visible...
Aubourn Hall is set in 10 acres of glorious borders, shrubs, walks and ponds surround this beautiful 17th century manor house....
Located in the heart of historic Barton upon Humber, Baysgarth House is the ancestral home of the prominent Nelthorpe family. Set within 30 acres of parkland this Grade II listed building is a beautiful example of Georgian architecture and is the per...
Belton House is a perfect English country house, set in its own extensive deer park, Belton was designed to impress. Built in the late 17th century for 'Young' Sir John Brownlow, with family fortunes founded in law, it is one of the finest examples o...
Inside the castle are many notable collections, from the military treasures in the guardroom to the stunning staterooms with their impressive period art, tapestries, furniture and sculpture. In contrast to the grandeur of the State Rooms, the Old Kit...
The remains of a 13th-century hexagonal castle, birthplace in 1367 of the future King Henry IV, with adjacent earthworks. Besieged and taken by Cromwell's Parliamentarians in 1643....
Baldocks Mill, the only remaining mill building in Bourne. Disused since water wheel collapsed in 1924. Mill and house now restored and opened as heritage centre. Raymond Mays Exhibition Room recording the success of ERA and BRM cars. Bourne history ...
Bransby Home of Rest for Horses is a registered charity, founded by Mr Peter Hunt in 1968 which has provided safe permanent refuge to over 1000 horses, ponies, donkeys and mules since it was established. Always concerned about the welfare of horses, ...
The Brant Broughton Heritage Room holds exhibitions which include local history, traditional and contemporary crafts and village projects. The room is used by local craft groups....
Stamford Brownes Hospital is an Ancient almshouses, still in use, founded in 1475 by William Browne, a local wool merchant. Fine medieval stained glass can be found in the chapel and Audit Room, original furniture and exhibitions. There is also a clo...
Burghley house is the largest and grandest of the first Elizabethan Age. Built and mostly designed by William Cecil, Lord High Treasurer of England, between 1555 and 1587, the house is a family home for his descendants to this day. At present the Hou...
Chambers Farm Nature Reserve is located on the site of a medieaval woodland and is well known for its wide range of butterflies. The 360-hectare (900-acre) beauty spot, near Wragby, Lincolnshire, has been rated as one of the best Forestry Commission ...
The Church Farm Museum is a hidden gem of the East Coast, this rural life museum gives us a glimpse of our agricultural lives before the mass urbanisation of Britain.
In addition to the main farmhouse there is also a thatched 'mud and stud' farm ...
Nestling at the tip of the Lincolnshire Wolds in a picture postcard setting is Claythorpe Watermill & Wildfowl Gardens, truly a little piece of paradise which, once discovered, you'll want to return to time and time again.
Open daily from Easter u...
You can start your Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway journey from our main terminus at Cleethorpes Kingsway Station where you may browse in the station masters gift shop before boarding your train for a delightful run through the Lakeside park and alon...
In June, the grassland of Collyweston Quarries Nature Reserve glows with the golden-yellow flowers of common rockrose, common bird's-foot-trefoil and dyer's greenweed, whose flowers were once gathered to produce a yellow dye.
This colourful displa...
The Royal Air Force College, Cranwell is perhaps the most famous landmark in RAF history. When it opened in 1920 it was the first military Air Academy in the world. Since then, many of the RAFs most famous pilots have graduated there. Photographs, ex...
Doddington Hall is a much loved family home and has never been sold since it was built in 1595 by Robert Smythson, one of England's foremost Elizabethan architects. The mellow brick exterior with its walled courtyards has barely changed while the int...
This wonderful mill is located on Mill Road behind the museum, so called due to the nine windmills that formerly faced west over the steep slopes of the Lincoln Edge. Ellis's Mill is now the sole survivor of these mills.
Ellis' Mill is an excellen...
At Elsham Hall you will really enjoy visiting our arboretum, outdoor wild butterfly garden, animal farm, adventure playground, carp and trout lakes. Also take a look at many of the other attractions at Elsham Hall.
The walled garden is a magnifice...
A visit to Epworth Old Rectory which is an impressive grade 1 listed Queen Anne building set in beautiful gardens will transport you back into early 18th century life and introduce you to the remarkable family who lived here.
This is the home in w...
Fantasy World is a 20,000 square foot children's play area, including ball pools, tumble tower, castle of adventure, magic submarine, free-fall slide, toddlers soft play area, bouncy castle. The kids will love it here at Fantasy World....
'Ings' is an old English word for the wet pastures to the west of Barton which, before embankment, were part of the Humber flood plain. Since Roman times the underlying clay has been used to make bricks and tiles.
In the late 19th century there we...
There is no better place to visit in Grimsby than Fishing Heritage Centre. An experience not to be missed that will leave you and your family in awe as you witness first hand the endurance, dangers and disasters that imperilled the fishermen of Gr...
Visit at high tides from autumn to spring for close-up views of roosting wading birds - the bigger the tide, the better the spectacle!
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At Freiston Shore you can get excellent views of waterbirds on the salt water lagoon, especially at high tide when wading birds roost, sometimes in their thousands.
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Fun Farm Family Entertainment Centre at Spalding is one of the best in Lincolnshire and is sure to keep all of your children entertained and active with hours of fun for all the family.
Three storeys of action packed padded play structure with sl...
Fun Farm Family entertainment centre at grantham is sure to keep all of your children entertained and active.
'The most smiles for miles'
Ball pools, tube slides,rope bridge, the spooky cave, deck climbs, rope swings and vertical roller squeeze...
Gainsborough Model Railway is hand built and is one of the largest model railways in 'O' gauge, depicting The East Coast Main Line from Kings Cross to Leeds Central.
This is no ordinary model railway, but a truly remarkable product of the model ma...
A little-known gem, Gainsborough Old Hall is among the best-preserved medieval manor houses in England. Partly brick and partly timber-framed, and mainly later 15th century with Elizabethan additions, it has a kitchen with an enormous fireplace, a no...
A deserted medieval village, one of the best-preserved examples in England, clearly visible as a complex of grassy humps and bumps. According to legend demolished as a den of thieves, the real reason for its abandonment remains uncertain....
Gibraltar Point National Nature Reserve covers three miles of coast from Skegness to The Wash. Habitats include sandy and muddy seashore, sand dunes, saltmarsh and freshwater marsh with ponds and lagoons. The reserve is recognised internationally for...
Handsome town house, with architectural features from various eras. Dating from 1380, the house has been extensively altered over the years and presents an attractive mixture of styles. The ground floor is on show to visitors. Delightful walled garde...
Grantham Museum is the interpretation centre for this market town and its surrounding area. Come and explore its displays of archaeology and social history.
'This is a neat, pleasant, well-built and populous town' - Daniel Defoe 1720s.
The muse...
Grimsthorpe Castle rises majestically from the flat landscape of South Lincolnshire, surrounded by its extensive park. The principal front of the house, the last masterpiece of the Baroque architect Sir John Vanbrugh, is calculated to impress. Vanbru...
Fine red-brick house, dating from 1700, with Victorian walled gardens. Located at the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds, Gunby Hall has an atmosphere redolent of many generations of family occupation. There are panelled rooms and a beautiful oak stairca...
Late 17th-century Baptist chapel. Resembling a brick barn, this remote chapel with outdoor baptistry was used by local Baptists as a secluded place of worship and is one of the two best surviving examples in England. It was substantially altered to i...
In 1822 a great European traveller and collector, Gregory Williams, inherited the Harlaxton estate, near Grantham. Williams, who changed his name to Gregory Gregory, decided to commission a new country seat befitting a man of taste and his collection...
These faithfully restored buildings now house a small but comprehensive railway museum. There are artefacts relating to the Great Northern Railway, London and North Eastern Railway and many other railway companies. The Museum is staffed entirely by e...
Immingham Museum offers a fascinating collection of local objects with small exhibitions on the Pilgrim Fathers, Great Central Railway and the Docks, upon which modern Immingham was founded. There are also exhibitions about the life and times of Immi...
A fine example of a turf-cut maze (sometimes known as a miz-maze), Julian's Bower stands on a hillside overlooking the confluence of the River Ouse and River Trent, with an earthwork known as Countess Close above it. No-one knows who originally cut ...
Ancient Guildhall and Council Chamber. Contains Lincoln's Civic Insignia, considered the finest collection of civic regalia outside London. Also the City's Charter dating from 1157, pre-dating the Magna Carta.
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Standing almost in the shadow of Lincoln cathedral, with sweeping views over the ancient city and the countryside beyond, the medieval bishops' palace was once among the most important buildings in the country. The administrative centre of the larges...
The Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre is a family run museum and was set up over 20 years ago. It is now widely seen as a living memorial to the 55,500 men of Bomber Command who lost their lives during WW2. It holds one of the rarest aircraft, ...
A visit to Mablethorpe Seal Sanctuary offers a unique nature experience. Walk through two acres of sand dunes - only fifty metres from the sea - and gain first hand experience of some of the county's most stunning wildlife.
The Mablethorpe Seal Sa...
The Mablethorpe Ye Olde Curiosity Museum contains a unique collection of lampshades. Also old Christmas decorations and lights; kitchenalia; breweriana and a full sized Morris Traveller car....
a small museum, supported by The Friends of Metheringham Airfield that is dedicated to those men and women who flew and supported RAF 106 Bomber Squadron from 1943 until the end of the second world war.
The visitor centre contains an abundance o...
Marie-Christine Austin Mount Pleasant Windmill is a traditional four-sailed brick tower mill built in 1875 on the Lincoln Cliff overlooking Kirton-in-Lindsey with extensive views over the Trent Valley and the Wolds. It was wind powered until 1936 whe...
Mrs Smith's Cottage was built in the mid nineteenth century. It is a very simple early Victorian brick built cottage. The only modern innovations are an inside toilet, cold water tap and electricity. The range, the heart of the house, was in daily us...
Here at the Museum of Lincolnshire Life you can enjoy free entry to the largest and most diverse community museum in Lincolnshire. Our rich and varied social history collection reflects and celebrates the culture of Lincolnshire and its people from 1...
Highly commended in Lincolnshire Star Awards 2006 - Skegness Natureland Seal Sanctuary was named Lincolnshire Family Attraction of the Year 2004 by the Good Britain Guide.Rescues and rehabilitates orphaned and injured seals and pups. Natureland is...
Set in the heart of undiscovered North Lincolnshire, the 300 acres of Normanby Hall Museum and Country Park provides the perfect day out for all the family.
Return to the elegance of a more leisurely era in the beautiful Regency Hall and learn abo...
The 2ft gauge railway was first installed in 1971 to serve the chicken farm, handling feed, eggs and waste from cleaning of the sheds. Although the poultry business closed in 1981, the original locomotive and wagons are still used around the farm, an...
A great day out for all the family. Discover the stories of North Lincolnshire through many interactive exhibits - become a nature detective in 'Go Wild', step back in time in the Victorian ironstone cottage and relive the 'People's War'. Climb the s...
Every year, hundreds of people of all ages and abilities actually benefit from a visit to the Northcote Horses. You could find it therapeutic! As a sanctuary for handicapped and retired horses, the care of animals is our first priority. All funds rai...
The Land Drainage Museum - Creating the Landscape. From Saxon times the Fens have been a prosperous area, wealth coming from salt making, wool, agricultural produce, wildfowling and fishing. This wealth financed the building of the fine medieval chur...
Pleasure Island Family Theme Park is Cleethorpes' main tourist attraction. Unlike some fairgrounds and pleasure parks where the visitor pays per ride, Pleasure Island's entrance fee covers all of the rides for as many times as you want. You won't spe...
The regimental collections of the Queen's Royal Lancers and its immediate antecedent regiments the 16th/5th Lancers and the 17th/21st Lancers, currently housed at Prince William of Gloucester Barracks Grantham, include fine displays of uniforms, weap...
At midnight on 2nd September 1939 Great Britain issued an ultimatum to Germany and on the following day Neville Chamberlain broadcast to the nation that a state of war existed between Great Britain and Germany.
On duty on 3 September 1939, within ...
Read's Island Nature Reserve is part of the Upper Humber SSSI, SPA, SAC and RAMSAR site. It is currently the second largest semi-permanent island in the estuary and is particularly noteworthy for its nationally important estuarine habitat and until r...
Come and experience the Rushmoor magic... just outside Louth and only a short drive from the Lincolnshire Coast
There's lots to do and see for everyone from 2 to 92!
Ponies and piglets, slides and bouncy castle - Hawks, owls and falcons, goats ...
Built in 1877, this restored six-storey mill with complete gear, sails and fantail still works today. The award-winning tearoom sells produce made from the mill's organic, stone-ground flour....
Located in the centre of the sea front, Skegness Pier is easy to find and it's even easier to park your car, with parking either side of this splendid building.
At Skegness Pier you can do all this:-
* Ten Pin Bowling on full sized AMF lanes.<...
Snipe Dales is one of the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trusts' principle reserves. Snipe Dales is an area of over 200 acres of beautiful countryside and steep sided valleys situated on the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds. It has waymarked trails, picnic area...
St Peter's church combines a remarkably complete Anglo- Saxon tower and rare baptistry, dating mainly from c. 970, with a tall and impressive medieval nave and chancel displaying a range of architectural styles. This much studied church is an archaeo...
Come to Stamford Museum to find out more about the 'finest stone town in England'.
See our unique Stamford Tapestry, fascinating local history collections and chat to our enthusiastic and knowledgeable staff - there is something for everyone!...
Tallington Lakes is a Unique Experience, set in 205 acres of clean spring fed water, if you want to water ski, wakeboard, tube-ride, jet ski, windsurf, dinghy sail or canoe on clean and calm water, then look no further. - you have found a location th...
Dramatic 15th-century red-brick tower, with six floors to explore. This vast fortified and moated tower was built for Ralph Cromwell, Lord Treasurer of England from 1433 to 1443. The building was restored by Lord Curzon between 1911 and 1914 and cont...
Remains of a grammar school for church choristers, founded in the mid-15th century by Ralph, Lord Cromwell, the builder of nearby Tattershall Castle (National Trust) and of English Heritage's Wingfield Manor....
Tetney Marshes covers over 1,500 hectares of coastal mudflats, salt marsh, dunes and saline lagoons on the north Lincolnshire coast. The reserve forms an important part of the Humber estuary, which is one of the top five estuaries for birds in the UK...
Butterfly & Wildlife Park at Long Sutton, Spalding, Lincolnshire, was voted the countys leading family attraction in 2003, and as well as being a leading conservation facility, it offers a great family day out whatever the weather.
A ticket to the...
The Cottage Museum is a small community museum situated in the attractive Lincolnshire village of Woodhall Spa. The museum was created to preserve the history of the local community. It is run entirely by volunteers and is housed in a cottage which w...
A vast 150 hectares (375 acres) of lakes, woodland, ponds, grassland, heath and wildlife - restored to nature after decades of sand and gravel quarrying.
Way-marked paths, wildlife hides and interpretation panels to let you explore this wildlife ...
Flower bulbs and the Spalding Fens have been synonymous for over 100 years.
The Spalding Bulb Museum is situated within the grounds of Birchgrove. The Museum is dedicated to all those who created and worked within the flower bulb industry from 188...
The enormous and ornate fortified gatehouse of Thornton Abbey is the largest and among the finest of all English monastic gatehouses. An early example of brick building in England, it proclaimed the wool tradebased prosperity of one of the wealthiest...
The Thorpe Camp Preservation Group has set up a Visitor Centre to commemorate those who fought for freedom in World War 2 based in Lincolnshire.Thorpe Camp was attached to the airfield at Woodhall Spa where 97, 617(Dambusters), 619 & 627 Squadrons we...
This fine medieval brick building, founded in 1484 by William of Wainfleet,is the setting for changing displays showing the social history, environment & hobbies of this area. On loan from Magdalen College, Oxford is the original Royal Charter of 145...
Waltham, a medium-sized village near Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, once had a smock mill with a bakery, and on an ideal site by the B1203 road there was a trestle-type postmill from 1666, which was blown down in 1744.
This was replaced by ano...
Here at Waters' Edge Visitor Centre and Country Park you can explore 86 acres of country park and experience the visitor centre's interactive displays about the Humber Estuary and caring for the environment. With children's play areas and a cafe. The...
Home of Isaac Newton. In this small 17th-century manor house, his birthplace and family home, Sir Isaac Newton formulated some of his major works between 1665 and 1667. An early edition of his Principia is on display and the orchard includes a...
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