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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 ...
The Cheshire Sandstone Ridge was subsequently shortlisted for AONB designation in 2021. [27] On 8 October 2024, Natural England launched a statutory and public consultation for proposed plans to designate part of the Yorkshire Wolds as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). [28]
Campaign group SOS Biscathorpe has been fighting to prevent drilling at the site in the Lincolnshire Wolds for more than a decade.
The most significant archaeological discovery in Wold Newton was the discovery of Anglo Saxon urns in the field, Swinhope Walk, in 1828 by road workers quarrying gravel. [2] The site was subsequently excavated by the Rev. Dr. Oliver, Vicar of Scopwick, Lincoln, who reported at a meeting of The Archaeological Institute the discovery of a:
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').
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.
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 .