Walking Close to Lincoln Guidebook

by Clive Brown
This guide is one of an extensive series of 'no frills' local walking guide booklets which admirably achieve their objective of getting you out in the countryside amongst beautiful scenery on carefully chosen routes full of interest. The directions are simple and detailed and include clear pencil drawn sketch maps.

The Lincoln Cliff or Edge is a limestone escarpment running roughly north-south through Lincolnshire from Grantham to the Humber. The city of Lincoln has grown from an initial Iron age township on the site of which the Romans built a fort. Lincoln Castle, now a museum, was built by William I who realised the strategic position of the old roman fort. The current cathedral was completed in 1311 with its splendid 271 feet high central tower still a conspicuous landmark.

This guide describes eleven varied and interesting circular walks in the countryside close to the City of Lincoln and the River Witham. Distances vary between 4 and 8 miles.

The walk locations are:
Cherry Willingham and Fiskerton - 7 miles
Skellingthorpe, Harby and Doddington - 6 miles
Foss Dyke near Saxilby - 7.5 miles
South Carlton, Burton-by-Lincoln and Riseholme - 6.75 miles
Bracebridge Heath and Lincoln Cliff - 8.25 miles
Nocton and Wasps Nest - 6 miles
Wellingore, Navenby and Boothby Graffoe - 6 miles
North Carlton and Scampton - 5 miles
Scothern and Sudbrooke Park - 4.5 miles
Skellingthorpe Big Wood - 4.5 miles
Dunholme and Pickerings Meadow Nature Reserve - 4.5 miles

ISBN 9781907669 Pages 24 (2014 reprinted 2021) 148mm x 210mm