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The Viking Way is a long distance trail in England running 147 miles (237 km) between the Humber Bridge in North Lincolnshire and Oakham in Rutland. [ 1 ] History
The area is also popular with walkers: the Viking Way long-distance footpath runs from Barton-upon-Humber in North Lincolnshire across the Lincolnshire Wolds and into Rutland, [12] [13] and there is a youth hostel in the middle of the Wolds at Woody's Top near the village of Tetford.
Wolds Top, also known as Normanby Hill, [2] is the highest point of the Lincolnshire Wolds.The summit elevation is 168 m (551 ft). [1] It lies just under a mile to the north of the village of Normanby le Wold and three miles to the south of the small market town of Caistor in Lincolnshire.
Viking Way: 147 237: Lincolnshire and Rutland: Barton-upon-Humber: Oakham: Links other major routes including the Macmillan Way and the Yorkshire Wolds Way; most is designated as part of the European E2 footpath. Way for the Millennium: 41 66: Staffordshire: Newport, Shropshire: Burton upon Trent: East–west route across Staffordshire ...
The Viking Way meets the River Waring, then north of the A158 the village of High Toynton. The A153 skirts the southern edge of the River Bain to reach Roughton and Thornton. The border follows the Old River Bain west of the A153 and north over the river meadows, crossing the Horncastle Canal and Viking Way.
The Viking Way traverses through the village, passing from the side of the cliff edge to Ermine Street. William White ‘’History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Lincolnshire,’’, 1856. Wellingore, ten miles S. of Lincoln, and N.W. of Sleaford, is a large village, pleasantly situated on the western verge of the bold ridge of the heath hills ...
The Line of the Roman Road Continues to the North, still labelled both Ermine Street and High Dike on the OS maps, as the route of the Viking Way. It is a footpath until it crosses Long Lane on Leadenham Heath at SK991517 , where it becomes a minor road.
To the west of London road (A15), is an area of open land which was known locally as 'The Hillies'. Although privately owned (by the Church), it served for many years as unofficial common land, used for sheep grazing, dog walking and for a rough and ready village football pitch. A public footpath which forms part of The Viking Way runs through it.