Off the beaten track this place is huge and the gatehouse is the largest remaining in the country…read more Very impressive and loved by artists. You can go inside for, a fee up, the new staircase. Within the grounds stand the ruins of the monastic buildings, notably the elegantly decorated octagonal chapter house of 1282-1308. An early example of brick building in England, it proclaimed the wool trade-based prosperity of one of the wealthiest English Augustinian monasteries. Its founder Sir William le Gros, Earl of Yorkshire, was buried here. (Will the Fat) It is free to wander around it and I find it very atmosphering at dusk and eerie. I swear I have heard whispering voices. By day it is a lovely place to visit. They say if you take stone from the abbey you will die and there is a legend that a manor house build of it suddenly collapsed. Now you will think me mad but once on a sunny day I was walking back to the gatehouse from the chapter house and found myself rooted to the spot. My friends asked what was wrong and I said I couldn't move my legs and I couldn't! They pulled me and suddenly I was free. NO idea what it was but it scared me!

This is a memorial stone dedicated to the Pilgrims going to America…read more In 1608 the attempt to leave for Holland was made, this time from Killingholme Creek near Immingham where a Dutch ship waited. Men were ferried aboard first, but before the women and children could do so an armed crowd intervened. The Pilgrim Fathers left from the bank of the Humber at a place called Immingham Creek to Holland in 1608. The actual spot was marked by a memorial which was erected in 1924. The granite top stone of the memorial was taken from Plymouth Rock, Mass and presented by the Sulgrave Institution. The memorial was erected by the Anglo-American Society of Hull. The memorial became surrounded by industry as the Immingham dock area expanded and was moved in 1970 to its present site in a small park opposite the church in Immingham. According to Alan Tailby in his book the Pilgrims did hire a boat to take them to Holland from Boston in 1607 but the skipper, after taking their money, betrayed them to the authorities and they were imprisoned for a time. Many of the streets in Immingham are named after the Pilgrims: e.g. Clyfton Crescent and Brewster Avenue. Some 22 million Americans claim descent from the Pilgrim Fathers who sailed in the Mayflower and related crossings. The memorial stone, erected in 1924, on the estuary, was moved in 1970 to near St. Andrew's church because of re-development.When I worked in the archeology department I remember listing this as an SMA. (Sites and Monuments). Many Americans visit it each year.

Grimsby Dock Tower (N.E.Lincs) is visible for miles before you reach the town and is a famous…read morelandmark. It was so noticable it was on German bombing maps as a guide to the docks. An order to demolish it because of this was made but never happened. Designed like the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena. It was built in 1852 with the purpose of containing a 30,000 UK gallon (136 m) water reservoir, which was originally used to provide hydraulic power to the lock gates and cranes of Grimsby Docks. You can walk up to it and twice a year people abseil down the side to raise money for charity by the Grimsby Rotary Club. I always MEANT to do it..I like abseiling. It is possible to climb the structure to see the amazing views over the whole of Grimsby and Cleethorpes though it is not open to the public usually other than sometimes on Dock open days.

Great place to walk around enjoy the scenery. The zoo, however, was somewhat disappointing. They…read moreshow a picture of a puffin but there are none. It's more like a petting zoo woot the petting. There is a trolley (fee applies) that can take you around but it was so beautiful out we decided to walk. The cliff area and views are spectacular. We ran out of time and didn't go inside the building.

Wonderful place to visit. Plenty for the children to do and a great stately home and grounds. The…read morechildren's play area has been re-vamped and is great. The small animal zoo is cool and it's a great place to have a picnic. The beaches are a stone throw away. They have many events on throughout the year and it's always a delight.

Hard to say where this is in Qype. It is just outside Sutton-on-Sea on the way to Mablethorpe…read more This is a tiny thatched church. Very rare. Markby was once a priory and the church is all that is left apart from stones making up the nearby farmhouse. The priory of St. Peter at Markby was founded during the reign of Henry II. Ok I lecture in history too so for anyone interested here is the ref: (From: 'Houses of Austin canons: The priory of Markby', A History of the County of Lincoln: Volume 2 (1906), pp. 174-176. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=38025 . ) Markby church is cute! and I love it. Many accounts of monks having to be wheeled home from the inn in a wheelbarrow and of gossiping etc. I think you can still be christened or buried there but not sure if it has services. It is usually open, however, to visit and look around.

Sadly not a good day to see the cliffs clearly as the sea fog was in but we managed to the Puffins,…read moreGannets, Razorbills & Guillemots that return to nest every year. Even though the weather was poor there was plenty of people on site. Like most RSPB reserves have, a well stocked gift shop & cafe on site.

Visited on 2 May on a lovely sunny day. Saw puffins for the first time! Also gannets, guillemots…read moreand razorbills all nesting on the cliffs. This RSPB site is superb with lots of helpful staff and volunteers answering questions and offering telescopes to look through. The paths are easy to access by wheelchairs and buggies and the cafe has some tables outside as well as inside to enjoy a light lunch or cup of tea. If only it were nearer to home we would visit here all the time. Highly recommended.

The Corporation Bridge in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire is a lifting bridge in the town's former…read morefish docks. Road vehicles can pass freely over the bridge and it is part of one of Grimsby's busiest traffic spots.It used to have trams run over it and bits of tramlines can still be seen. It is quite attractive and has fine views over the river and the boats moored there like one of the old Humber ferries..the Lincoln Castle and the Barge pub. Of course some idiot planner in the town built another bridge close to it that does not open and is too low for shipping! The bridge was originally a swing bridge opened in 1873. At that time, it faced the Central Market and the Clock Tower. Following an incident in which a winch stripped a number of cogs from the bridge's machinery, it was opened by a tugboat. The bridge's present form was constructed by dock engineer Alfred C. Gardener in 1925. After being built at a cost of almost £60,000, it was opened by the Prince of Wales three years later. Many of the workers involved in its construction had their names engraved onto the girders. It required ten men to drive the mechanism to raise the bridge. However, the bridge has not been raised since the early 1990s and its present mechanical condition is unknown. North East Lincolnshire Council has stated that it plans to restore the bridge to its former glory. It has been repaired and repainted. It is briefly seen in the opening scenes of the video to Erasure's song The Circus.

- [x] Walmgate Bar (cat trail)     - [x] Fishergate Bar…read more    - [x] Fishergate Postern Tower     - [x] Clifford tower - [x] Skeldergate bridge - [x] Baile Hill     - [x] Victoria Bar     - [x] Micklegate Bar (Tansy beetle mural nearby) - [x] Lendal bridge, Lendal tower, Barker Tower (judi dench walk nearby)   - [x] Multangular Tower in museum gardens where you'll find st Mary's abbey and the hospitium) - [x] Bootham bar - [x] Robin Hood tower - [x] Monk bar (5 mins to minster) - [x] Layerthorpe bridge (15 mins to minster) - [x] The red tower

Walk a portion or all 2.6 miles of the medieval walls that encircle the City of York. We walked the…read morenorth corner in clockwise direction and had neat aerial sights of York Minster. The walkway is relatively flat with a couple of dedicated viewpoints and benches. Entry is free from stairs at various points that are typically open from 8 AM until dusk.

As a small child my grandmother took me to tea a few times in the millars cottage of this mill. It…read morewas my grandfathers cousin or brother or somesuch who owned it and was the miller. I remember the cast fire with oven attatched and the kettle that swung over the fire but most of all I remember sitting on flour sacks, half way up the mill, playing with kittens. Of course the cats were kept in the mill to catch rats. Waltham, a medium-sized village near Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, once had a smock mill with a bakery, and on an ideal site by the B1203 road there was a trestle-type postmill from 1666, which was blown down in 1744. This was replaced by another postmill with a wooden round house which was blown down in 1873/4 while undergoing replacement of some of the tressle timbers work being undertaken by Saunderson's of Louth. A clunch tower mill (chalk tower probably encased in brick) stood near the intersection between the High Street and Barnoldby Road and collapsed one wet day when the millwrights were working on it. During the First World War one of the sails was lost, and the opposite one removed to balance it - timber was unavailable at the time to replace them. In the 1920's the sails were reduced to single-sided sails. During the Second World War the mill was used as a Home Guard look-out post with a view over the River Humber, and had a narrow escape when the RAF wanted to demolish it as a hazard to aircraft. It was worked by wind until 1962, then operated for a while by electric engine, producing animal feed. In December 1966 Waltham Windmill Preservation Society was formed, and began the task of restoring the mill. The Society continues to raise funds for mill maintenance to this day. The present miller maintains the workings of the mill, six-sailed once more, and grinds best-quality grain to produce flour occasionally. The present six-storied tower windmill was built in 1878-80 by John Saunderson of Louth using light-coloured local bricks and tarred. It had six double-sided patent sails and a traditionaes (for grinding flour) and 2 pairs of Derbyshire Peak stones (for grinding coarser flour). The windmill site has a pleasant rural atmosphere, (the village is very pretty to explore and interesting) with excellent parking and toilet facilities, a restaurant, old railway-carriage café, a herb shop, old-fashioned sweetshop, a local artist, woodturner, and other craft outlets. There is also a popular miniature railway and a picnicking area. The Museum of Rural Life, is a trip back in time, with a great number of hands-on items, plus video shows and a new RAF section. Waltham Windmill Preservation Society has worked hard for many years, running car boot sales, auctions, and many other events towards the upkeep of the magnificent Waltham Windmill, which stands proudly on high ground and can be seen for miles around. Well worth a visit when it is open or has an event. Usually weekends and Bank Holidays.