Lincolnshire

Mainly agricultural, it stretches from the southern border with Norfolk at the Wash to the Humber in the north where it meets Yorkshire. Thus it is a region of many contrasts, going from flat, marshy land (much of it reclaimed from the sea) via the rolling Lincolnshire Wolds[?] in the middle of the county to another flat low-lying area near the major fishing port of Grimsby.

A reorganisation split off the areas of North Lincolnshire (including Scunthorpe[?]) and North East Lincolnshire (including Grimsby) as separately administered unitary authority areas.

Towns and villages

• Alford[?]
• Billinghay[?], Boston, Bourne[?], Brandon[?], Branston[?], Burgh le Marsh[?]
• Caistor[?], Chapel St. Leonards[?], Coningsby[?], Croft[?], Crowland
• Deeping St. James[?]
• Folkingham[?]
• Gainsborough[?], Grantham
• Heckington[?], Holbeach[?], Horncastle[?]
• Ingoldmells[?]
• Leasingham[?], Lincoln, Long Sutton[?], Louth
• Mablethorpe[?], Market Deeping[?], Market Rasen[?], Marston[?], Martin, Metheringham, Lincolnshire[?], Martin, Horncastle, Lincolnshire[?]
• Normanton[?], North Thoresby
• Pinchbeck[?]
• Rothwell[?]
• Saltfleet[?], Scopwick, Sibsey[?], Skegness[?], Sleaford[?], Spalding[?], Spilsby[?], Stamford[?], Sutton Bridge[?]
• Woodhall Spa[?]

Places of interest

• Alford Manor House[?]
• Alford Windmill[?]
• Ayscoughfee Hall[?]
• Belton House
• Cogglesford Watermill[?]
• Crowland Abbey
• Doddington Hall[?]
• East Lighthouse, Sutton Bridge - former home of Sir Peter Scott
• Grimsthorpe Castle[?]
• Harlaxton Manor
• Heckington Windmill[?]
• Normanby Hall[?]
• Tolethorpe Hall[?]
• Gibraltar Point[?]
• River Ancholme
• The Wash

Historically, Lincolnshire was divided into three administrative areas:

• Lindsey (north of Lincoln, named after an Anglo-Saxon kingdom);
• Kesteven[?] (south-west of Lincoln);
• Holland[?] (south-east of Lincoln, very similar in character to parts of the Netherlands)

Grimsby was a county borough[?] prior to 1974, and so was a separate administrative unit, but the areas surrounding it, including Cleethorpes[?] were part of Lincolnshire.