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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 down in a south easterly direction towards the flat Lincolnshire Fens in the south-east of the county ...
The Countryside Commission recognised the significance of the Viking Way as a high-quality long-distance walk linking other major routes in Eastern England, these being the Yorkshire Wolds Way at the northern end, the Hereward Way and Macmillan Way from Oakham and indirectly via the Hereward Way, the Jurassic Way from Stamford and the southern ...
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 ...
Belchford lies in the Lincolnshire Wolds, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty running from Louth in the north, to Horncastle in the south. The village attracts ramblers, and hang-gliders who use the ridges from the Bluestone Heath Road to launch into the valley.
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').
Sausthorpe is a small village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, 8 miles (13 km) east of Horncastle and 3 miles (4.8 km) north-west of Spilsby. It lies on the southern edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds – a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty – in the valley of the River Lymn. Farming remains the ...
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 .
The Lincolnshire Wolds: a range of low hills that run broadly south-east through the central and eastern portion of the county. The Lincoln Cliff: a jurassic escarpment forming a major feature facing the Wolds. The industrial Humber Estuary and north-east coast: the major population and industrial centres of North and North East Lincolnshire.