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Help supportus! £3 donation See inside ay - ay 21 M turd Sa une 2016 ay 5 J und S Explore the landscape and heritage of the Lincolnshire Wolds 16 days of walking & family fun in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Tel 01529 461499 www.woldswalkingfestival.co.uk A Heritage Lincolnshire & Lincolnshire Wolds Countryside Service partnership project Saturday 21 May – Sunday 5 June 2016 Welcome to the 12th Lincolnshire Wolds Walking Festival! Our festival is one of the largest, and best-attended, events of its kind in the UK. Over the past 11 years we have annually delivered a fabulous 16 days of walking in the East Midlands’ only Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, offering a great way for everyone to experience a beautiful landscape, its culture and heritage, whilst enjoying some healthy exercise in good company. Please save our festival As with many other organisations, times are getting Your much tougher. We are delighted that many of our walks continue to be free, or donations-only* but, support without YOUR support, the Lincolnshire Wolds will Walking Festival is at risk. Please will you donate a minimum £3 (or more if you make a can afford it) for this brochure? Your donation will help us deliver the 2016 event and protect the festival difference for the future. This investment will support co-ordination and print costs so that you know what is happening and when. We are very grateful to our walk leaders and partners, who provide their time for free! You can help by sending a cheque, payable to ‘Heritage Trust of Lincolnshire’ and marked ‘LWWF’ on the reverse, to our address at: The Old School House, Cameron Street, Heckington, SLEAFORD, Lincs NG34 9RW. Alternatively, go to our website www.woldswalkingfestival.co.uk and click on the ‘donate’ button to donate safely via the Heritage Lincolnshire website. *Donations go straight to the good cause(s) named Contents Maps of Walks 4-7 Launch 8 Finale 9 Key to Symbols 10 About the 2016 event Walk Information 11 We have another great walking festival in The Walks 12-53 store this year, with 113 walks ranging from relaxed short strolls discovering town-centre heritage, to challenging strides across hill and vale. The Viking Way celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2016, so look out for the symbol where our walks involve this 147-mile long-distance footpath. We are keener than ever that EVERYONE should be able to take part in the festival and we have some new accessible walks and events suitable for people using mobility equipment or with other special needs. These are badged with the symbol in our brochure. As ever, we have lots of family- friendly walks and activities too, so why not share your brochure with family and friends, and get everyone involved? Remember, if you need to check out anything about your walk you can contact your walk leader direct. How was it for you? Your feedback has been vital in letting us (and our funders) know about who takes part in the festival and what you think about it. Please try out our new Win a Lincolnshire questionnaire this year, Produce Hamper! which you can complete All completed questionnaires received online or use the paper by Monday 13 June will be entered into copy which your walk a prize draw to win a fantastic hamper leader supplies at the end of ‘Love Local’ produce donated by of the walk. Lincolnshire Co-operative Ltd. Thank you to our 2016 festival sponsors, Stourton Estates and Webtogs. BARTON UPON HUMBER 23 IMMINGHAM 51 SCUNTHORPE 50 Walks Week 1 17 11 GREAT Sat 21 May – Sat 28 May BRUMBY GRIMSBY BOTTESFORD 1 The Great Walk! Lincs Page SCARTHO CLEETHORPES Wolds Way (Day 1) 48 HUMBERSTON Donington on Bain to Tetford ................................... 12 CAISTOR Map © East Lindsey Round the Tower Circular ...... 12 2 District Council 39 3 Interpreting 30 Donington-on-Bain ................ 12 43 4 Family Exploring Walk ........... 13 28 5 Almost Everest! ..................... 13 20 6 Railways and Radar .............. 13 MORTON MARKET 26 www.woldswalkingfestival.co.uk 7 Vikings and Volunteers .......... 14 RASEN 16 8 Interpreting GAINSBOROUGH LOUTH Donington-on-Bain ................ 14 9 Night Walk 1 .......................... 14 5 MABLETHORPE 10 Alford Wolds Walk ................. 15 4 3 11 Watercress Walk ................... 15 2 12 Countryside around 1 Waltham ................................ 16 31 WRAGBY 13 Secret Stourton ..................... 16 ALFORD 14 Discover Scrivelsby Estate.... 16 15 Henry Winn’s Footsteps ........ 17 16 Heritage Walk ........................ 17 13 17 Healing Manor History........... 17 LINCOLN HORNCASTLE 18 The Great Walk! Lincs 37 Wolds Way (Day 2) NORTH SPILSBY Tetford to Louth ..................... 18 HYKEHAM 19 Coast and Country ................ 18 WOODHALL SKEGNESS 20 Up and Down the Western SPA 36 Wolds .................................... 18 21 Horncastle to Hag by Bus 27 and the Long Way Back ........ 19 22 An Utterby Evening ............... 19 34 23 Train Walk: Hike from Habrough ..............................NEWARK 19 24 Mostly Moats .........................ON TRENT 20 25 A Picturesque Round ............ 20 26 A Walk With a View ............... 20 27 Historic Tattershall ................. 21 SLEAFORD 28 Claxby Ironstone Mine .......... 21 BOSTON Call Traveline for public transport info on 0871 200 22 33 4 or visit traveline.info BARTON UPON HUMBER Easy – suitable for most levels of fitness IMMINGHAM Moderate – a moderate Page SCUNTHORPE level of fitness is required, some hilly sections GREAT Energetic – a good level of 29 The Great Walk! Lincs Wolds BRUMBY GRIMSBY fitness is required, some Way (Day 3) Louth to Utterby 52 BOTTESFORD steep sections School ................................... 21 SCARTHO CLEETHORPES 30 Viking Way Celebration ......... 22 HUMBERSTON 12 31 A Stroll Through Scotchy Moor ...................................... 22 CAISTOR Map © East Lindsey 32 Around Burgh le Marsh ......... 22 District Council 33 Meander to the Medieval Moat of Bratoft....................... 23 34 Walk by Water ....................... 23 49 35 Life’s a Beach ........................ 23 41 36 Woodlands and Trails ............ 24 22 MORTON MARKET 37 Back of Nowhere ................... 24 RASEN 40 GAINSBOROUGH LOUTH 38 Walking in the Footsteps of Tennyson ............................... 24 29 MABLETHORPE 39 Chalk Streams in the 5 7 Lincolnshire Wolds ................ 25 53 6 40 A Walk Around Alvingham 42 and North Cockerington ........ 25 8 41 The Great Walk! Lincs Wolds 25 24 Way (Day 4) Utterby School WRAGBY 19 to Rothwell ............................ 26 45 ALFORD 10 18 35 42 Back to the Beach ................. 26 15 43 Explore the Nettleton Valley .. 27 38 44 Garden Walk ......................... 27 9 47 45 In the Shadow of LINCOLN HORNCASTLE Juicetrump............................. 27 37 21 54 46 44 32 46 Horncastle Canal Walk .......... 28 NORTH SPILSBY 33 HYKEHAM 14 47 Old Parson’s Walk ................. 28 SKEGNESS 48 Bus Walk: Up and Down WOODHALL Across the Top ...................... 28 SPA 36 49 Utterby Round and About ...... 29 50 In the Footsteps of Henry Marrows ................................ 29 51 Watercress Walk ................... 30 52 Folk and Cider Festival ......... 30 NEWARK 53 A Turn Around Tathwell ......... 31 ON TRENT 54 Night Walk 2 .......................... 31 SLEAFORD BOSTON Please support our Festival! see Page 2 5 BARTON UPON HUMBER IMMINGHAM 79 69 SCUNTHORPE Walks Week 2 62 64 Sun 29 May – Sun 5 June GREAT BRUMBY 88 GRIMSBY Page 55 The Great Walk! BOTTESFORD Lincs Wolds Way (Day 5) SCARTHO CLEETHORPES Rothwell to Tealby ...................31 HUMBERSTON 56 TerrainHopper Tryout! .............32 61 Wolds Hills and Valleys ...........32 57 CAISTOR Map © East Lindsey 58 A Walk on the Wild Side! .........33 55 District Council 59 Walking in the Footsteps of Tennyson, Again! .....................33 60 Wear it Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness ..............................34 61 Caistor Town Trail ....................34 MORTON MARKET www.woldswalkingfestival.co.uk 62 Healing Manor History.............34 RASEN 58 89 67 86 70 LOUTH 63 In the Wake of the GAINSBOROUGH Louth Flood .............................35 102 96 81 64 In the Footsteps of Henry MABLETHORPE Marrows ..................................35 65 Hidden Wolds Valley ...............35 66 Hemingby’s Horrible History ....36 67 Novia Scotia Circular...............36 WRAGBY 68 Keelby in Weelsby with ALFORD Wheelchairs, Walkers & Woofs .....................36 66 69 Watercress Walk .....................37 74 80 70 The Great Walk! Lincs Wolds Way (Day 6) Tealby to LINCOLN HORNCASTLE Donington on Bain...................37 71 Into the Woods at NORTH SPILSBY Snipedales! .............................38 HYKEHAM 72 Medieval Saltmaking in WOODHALL SKEGNESS Marshchapel............................38 SPA 73 Into the Woods at Snipedales! .............................38 75 74 Chambers Farm Wood For All ......................................39 75 The Ebrington Arms Walk .......39 76 Sibsey Trader WindmillN toEW ARK Stickney and Beyond ..............ON TRENT 40 77 Hubbard’s Hills Louth ..............40 78 Webtogs Walk: Great Eau Circular ..................40 SLEAFORD 79 Healing Manor History.............41 BOSTON 80 Forester’s Limewood Walk ......41 81 Ice Cream Heaven! .................41 Call Traveline for public transport info on 0871 200 22 33 6 or visit traveline.info BARTON UPON HUMBER Easy – suitable for most levels of fitness IMMINGHAM Page Moderate – a moderate SCUNTHORPE level of fitness is required, 82 Horncastle Town Walk .............42