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Fotherby 0 0 Saltfleetby and St Clements 12 Theddlethorpe Dunes Yalta West End B National Nature Reserve Kilometres Wood 0 1 2 3 4 5 Saltfleetby North St Peter’s Church 0 1 2 3 A 1 Cockerington 6 Miles Saltfleetby A Brackenborough 1 North Saltfleetby 0 All Saints 3 The Purple Route – 8.5 miles – starts in Louth and lkington Rushmoor All Saints 1 Country Park North Church visits the villages of Alvingham and End and passes Rushmoor Country Park on the way back to Theddlethorpe Louth. South Saltfleetby Keddington St Peter St Helen Toby’s Elkington Navigation The Blue RouteHill – 13.5 miles – starts from the New St James Warehouse Corner Theddlethorpe Inn Visitor Hub at Saltfleet and passes the churches of Church Long Eau All Saints South Church Skidbrooke St Botolph and Saltfleetby St Peter. It takes Cockerington Three Bridges A 6 the rider to the Gayton Engine Pumping Station and 31 Toby’s Theddlethorpe passes SaltfleetbyHill All Saints church on the way back to Louth All Saints the New Inn. Gayton Engine Pumping Station The Green Route – 26.5 Miles – is a longer ride 7 A15 00 A1 Gas starting at and passes Theddlethorpe 12 03 Terminal B 1 All Saints church and the Gayton Engine Pumping The King’s Station. It includes some delightfully quiet lanes and Hubbards Manby Head Hills Wetlands the opportunity for a rest at Watermill and Wildfowl Gardens on the way back to Mablethorpe. A 16 Mablethorpe Great A157 Carlton 4 Raithby 10 A1 A Great Eau 5 Castle 2 Carlton Maltby North Reston Little South Reston 4 Fir 10 1 Hill A Quarry 57 1 A Sutton on Sea

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© Crown copyright and database rights 2014 100019809 District Council Coastal Grazing washing salt-impregnated sand and this process, known stunning spire of St James church Lincolnshire Coastal as ‘muldefang’ in Lincolnshire, took salt-caked sand from in Louth was completed in 1515 at Marshes the spring tide line and placed it in a trench or ‘kinch’ a cost of £305-7s-4d (£305.37p). At Grazing Marshes The Lincolnshire Coastal Grazing Marshes stretch from along with seawater. The resulting solution was then tapped 90m, it is the tallest medieval parish

Grimsby to and lie between the Lincolnshire and stored, whilst the de-salted sands were thrown away © church in the country. Joe sett Cycling Map Wolds and the coast. Their history and culture is closely and the kinch refilled. Waste mounds are indicative of these Blis Published by Lincolnshire Coastal Grazing associated with traditional farming methods using livestock later coastal salterns. Cycling is probably the best way to appreciate the Marshes Project 2014 to graze fertile, moisture retaining pastures where hay churches of the marshes as a cyclist has the opportunity meadows were cut for forage. Drainage to take in the presence of each building before being As a low-lying area, management of water is essential, and entranced by a visit to each site. The land was kept dry enough so drainage and land reclamation have been a dominant for livestock to graze, with factor in the development of this landscape. The best Nature Reserves wet ‘fences’ providing way of understanding how this has been managed over The largest nature reserve in the area is the Saltfleetby ideal habitats for water time is to visit the Gayton Engine Pumping Station. -Theddlethorpe Dunes National Nature Reserve which voles, otters, dragonflies Completed in 1850, it was built to pump water from covers 952ha and stretches for 5 miles along the coast. and damselflies. A high Gayton Fen and Marsh into the Great Eau. This The reserve’s habitats are constantly changing and water table created pumping station is no longer needed as part of the include saltmarsh, foreshore and embryonic dunes on perfect conditions for local drainage system and so the delightful building the seaward side and the more stable established dunes flocks of waders and and pumps have been preserved by the Gayton Engine and marsh on the landward side. You can enjoy the site birds such as lapwing and Preservation Society as a museum that all year round: visit especially in May-June for dune flora, snipe. Although this habitat highlights the history of drainage May-October for migrant birds, and in the winter months

is at risk of being lost forever, © in the area. It is open periodically for wildfowl. Ja rs the area highlighted on this map mes nde throughout the summer and its Makinson-Sa anders on-S still, fortunately, contains pockets of ins information boards and picnic All the nature reserves on the map are for ak M the original grazing marsh so, when cycling around this site are available to visitors all cycling to, rather than cycling around es am area, you can experience the solitude, peace, beauty and J the year round. and cyclists are asked to leave their © wonderment of this vanishing landscape. cycles at the car parks/entrances and enjoy the reserves on foot.

© tt Farming Louth Joe Blisse The Lincolnshire Coastal Lincolnshire Coastal The traditional wet meadows and pastures started to Louth was the for the Saltfleetby Marshes area. For further Grazing Marshes Project Grazing Marshes Partnership Target Areas disappear as a result of the push for food production It still has a thriving market square and the town has information about was set up in 2003 to after the war. This process began in the 1950’s worked hard to retain its attractive individuality. this leaflet, please regenerate the grazing and accelerated through the 60’s and 70’s. contact: marshes and to conserve William Brown painted two panoramic The construction of flood relief channels Lincolnshire Coastal A1031 them for future generations A18 after the 1953 east coast floods also pictures of the view from the Tower of through a programme Grazing Marshes Project led to extensive drainage of large St James church in 1844. A Saltfleetby of activities focusing on Economy and Tourism Louth areas of marshland, and creating river reproduction at the Louth Museum Mablethorpe habitats, heritage, farming East Lindsey District Council A157 embankments led to the disappearance gives an idea of the scenery looking and community. [email protected] A111 of the winter flood meadows around from Louth, across the marshes to A16 Tel: 01507 601111 the sea. The original is hung at the Alford the smaller streams. The Lincolnshire /Huttoft The marshes are a nationally A158 Coastal Grazing Marshes Project aims Sessions House in Louth. A1028 A52 threatened habitat supporting For further information about the area go to to promote a thriving mix of arable and Burgh-le-Marsh www.visiteastlincolnshire.com or visit one of our a diverse variety of wildlife. A155 pastoral farming, whilst maintaining and Louth was linked to the sea for ocean They are a distinctive Tourist Information Centres : A16 K il going vessels in 1770 with the completion restoring the unique coastal landscape of in c A52 wetland landscape and are d un ly o of the Louth Canal. Of its eight locks, six were the grazing marshes, its wildlife-rich grasslands, su n C steeped in a rich cultural ppli ow Louth watercourses, archaeological sites and historic ed by Louth T built in an unusual way with the sides of the lock history. The land is scattered Cannon Street, Louth LN11 9NW buildings. chambers consisting of 4 elliptical bays, to make ett liss Tel: 01507 601111 with historic landscape features and archaeological B them stronger. The remains of the lock at oe remains and this map will enable cyclists to explore the J Email: [email protected] Salt making Alvingham shows this design. © area and experience some delightful places. Salt-making was an important part of the area’s economy Mablethorpe Front cover image © James Makinson-Sanders until the post-medieval period when it went into decline. Churches High Street, Mablethorpe LN12 1AF Salterns were places where salt was extracted from brine Lincolnshire was one of the great wool Tel: 01507 613273 and, in this area, salterns used seawater. Water was producing areas of the country and it Email: [email protected] evaporated, usually over a series of ponds, allowing pure was the wealth from wool that paid for salts to be produced. An alternative approach involved many of the churches in the area. The