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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 ...
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 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 ...
Stenigot is a village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is in the Lincolnshire Wolds, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, about 6 miles (9.7 km) south-west from the town of Louth, and 1 mile (1.6 km) south-east from the village of Donington on Bain. It includes the hamlet of Cold Harbour. [1]
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 station closed to passengers in 1970 along with the Mablethorpe Loop Line and the section from Firsby to Louth of the East Lincolnshire Railway. The section to Grimsby remained in use for freight traffic until December 1980 when it closed and was later removed. The station building and Louth North Signal Box remain as private dwellings.
Willoughby is a village in the district of East Lindsey, Lincolnshire, England. It is situated three miles (five kilometres) south from the market town of Alford , and on the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds , an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty .
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.