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The Lincolnshire Wolds which also includes the Lincolnshire Wolds National Landscape are a range of low hills in the county of Lincolnshire, England which runs roughly parallel with the North Sea coast, from the Humber Estuary just west of the town of Barton-upon-Humber in North Lincolnshire which then runs in a south easterly direction towards the flat Lincolnshire Fens in the south-east of ...
Ludborough is a heritage railway station in Ludborough, Lincolnshire, England, which is the base of the Lincolnshire Wolds Railway.The station, which was previously part of the East Lincolnshire Railway, [2] closed in 1961 to passengers and 1964 to freight, but was taken over by the preservation society in 1984.
A wildlife park in Lincolnshire is set to reopen this weekend after it closed earlier this year because of a dispute among the owners. Wolds Wildlife Park in Horncastle announced its closure on ...
Campaign group SOS Biscathorpe has been fighting to prevent drilling at the site in the Lincolnshire Wolds for more than a decade. Residents challenge ‘unlawful’ Lincolnshire oil drilling ...
North Thoresby is a heritage railway station in North Thoresby, Lincolnshire. The station, which was previously part of the East Lincolnshire Railway, [1] closed in 1970, but has since been reopened by the Lincolnshire Wolds Railway. The first services to the station from Ludborough, to the south, ran in August 2009, the first in 47 years.
Normanby le Wold is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.It is in the Lincolnshire Wolds, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and about 5 miles (8.0 km) south from the town of Caistor, and 17 miles (27 km) north-east from the city and county town of Lincoln. [1]
The "le Wold" denotes that the village is part of the greater Lincolnshire Wolds geographic area. [3] The historical animal husbandry method of tethering cattle was carried out in the village and there is a place called teatherings refecting this. [4] In 1821, Barnetby le Wold parish was recorded to contain 45 houses and 316 inhabitants. [5]
The Wolds comprise a series of low hills and steep valleys that are in the main underlain by calcareous (chalk and limestone) and sandstone rock laid down in the Cretaceous and Jurassic periods. One exception to this is the North Leicestershire / South Nottinghamshire Wolds, which are underlain by sometimes chalky glacial till ('Oadby Till').