Best Places to Visit in Lincolnshire

Alford is a rural town that has also cultivated an artistic side, as you’ll find out on Bank Holiday weekends in May and August when craft markets set up here.

In the northernmost hills of the Lincolnshire Wolds, Caistor is a quaint market town that prides itself on the welcome it gives to walkers.

Right in the south of Lincolnshire, in the district of South Holland Spalding is England’s centre for flower cultivation and every spring the Spalding Flower Festival is dedicated to the local bulb industry.

One of England’s beloved “bucket and spade” seaside destinations, Cleethorpes comes into its own on warm summer days.

Grazing the western reaches of the Wolds Area of Natural Beauty, Market Rasen is a quintessential English market town.

Rated as one of Lincolnshire’s most liveable towns, Sleaford is a historic town around yet another of the county’s sublime churches.

With the Wolds to the west and the coast not far to the east, the first landmark you’ll spot as you approach Louth is the spire of St James’ Church.

In industrial times its access to the North Sea made it a base for manufacturing, and during a stroll around the centre you won’t help but notice Marshall’s Yard, where the long-defunct Marshall, Sons & Co would produce agricultural machinery, and which is now a shopping precinct.

It wouldn’t be accurate to describe Grimsby as “pretty”, but you can definitely say it’s an interesting place, with a history that needs to be told.

An good old-fashioned day at the seaside awaits you in Skegness, which had its heyday in the early-20th century after taking off towards the end of the 1800s.

The well-to-do town of Horncastle was granted its market charter in the 1200s and trading continues on Thursdays and Saturdays.

Less likely to divide opinion is Sir Isaac Newton, born at Woolsthorpe Manor, moments south of Grantham, in 1642. He returned to Woolsthorpe in his 20s to perform experiments and is said to have observed that apple falling from the tree at this farmstead.