John Coombes

Meandering in Lincolnshire. John Coombes

The Lincolnshire Wolds give magnificent views to the Pennines in the west and out to the coast in the east. There are the rolling hills with hidden valleys with the gentle flowing streams with quaint villages nestling in the countryside. The Wolds are very much a living, working landscape, with woodland, grassland and many abandoned chalk pits which provide important habitats for rare flowers and wildlife. The ten easy to follow walks have been special selected to provide the walkers with a variation in landscape and vistas of some of the finest countryside in Britain. There are many distinctive features with the fields full of bright yellow rape seed which sets up a tapestry of beauty intermingled with the back drop of a vivid blue sky giving a clear and wide open landscape due to the lack of hedges. Once you are up on The Wolds you can then see for miles over the countryside with the green fields and woodland that looks just like cotton wool dipped in green paint set back to the sky, this makes look like your very own miniature train layout. Then we are down to The Fens beautiful flat land that has been reclaimed from the sea over many years. This is now a thriving landscape that is rich in waterways and open countryside which makes it perfect for walking. It is also the heart of crop and bulb growing, and it is the pumpkin capital of the U. K.