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Bolingbroke Castle

Bolingbroke Castle

3.09km from Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre

Bolingbroke Castle was one of three castles built by Ranulf de Blundeville, Earl of Chester and Lincoln, in the 1220s after his return from the Crusades. After Blundeville’s death, the castle remained in the ownership of the Earls of Lincoln and was later inherited through marriage by John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. Today the castle is an evocative ruin preserved to ground floor level, with several rooms within the towers still surviving.

Snipe Dales

Snipe Dales

5.94km from Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre

Snipe Dales nature reserve and Country Park is situated on the southern edge of the Wolds. The country park is 210 acres in a total of which 90 is woodland previously owned by the Forestry Commission and now by Lincolnshire County Council. The reserve has one of the few surviving semi-natural wet valley systems, while the Country Park offers mixed woodland walks. This diversity supports a wide range of birds and other wildlife including butterflies and dragonflies.

Wolds Wildlife Park

Wolds Wildlife Park

11.32km from Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre

A majestc and beautiful zoo which was accommodated with an exciting variety of animals from wild mammals to domestic animals including bears, lions, zebras, highland cows, tapirs, capybaras and many more. View all your favourites up close and discover opportunities to book an amazing wildlife experience. The park isn’t huge but it is ever-evolving and with such fantastic animals they are definitely worth supporting and visiting. The most striking thing about the park is the animal’s enclosures.

Lincolnshire Wildlife Park

Lincolnshire Wildlife Park

11.68km from Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre

The Lincolnshire Wildlife park, covers the whole ceremonial county of Lincolnshire, England. It was founded in 1948 as a voluntary charitable organisation dedicated to conserving the wildlife and wild places of Lincolnshire and to promoting the understanding and enjoyment of the natural world.

Thorpe Camp Visitor Centre

Thorpe Camp Visitor Centre

12.3km from Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre

Thorpe Camp Visitor Centre is designed for aviation enthusiasts and people with an interest in the Second World War. It has displays portraying every aspect of life at the airfield and there are special bays for each squadron that was stationed here.The visitor centre commemorates both the Royal Air Force, and RAF Woodhall Spa history, as well as civilian life in Lincolnshire in the 1940s.

Battle Of Britain Memorial Flight Visitors Centre

Battle Of Britain Memorial Flight Visitors Centre

12.81km from Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre

BBMF Visitor Centre has now been an important part of the BBMF’s engagement with the public for 33 years. In a unique partnership arrangement between the RAF and Lincolnshire County Council, the Visitor Centre allows visitors from all over the UK, and indeed the world. It itself houses a small exhibition area with various displays and has a well-stocked shop selling an extensive range of aviation and BBMF-related items. There is also a café offering a selection of sandwiches and cake, and hot a

National Trust - Tattershall Castle

National Trust - Tattershall Castle

13.52km from Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre

Tattershall Castle is an extraordinary historic site in Lincolnshire that shows evidence from the Early Medieval to the present. The castle and manor passed to the Cromwell family in the mid-fourteenth century and served as the manorial and administrative center of their estates. The building was restored by Lord Curzon between 1911 and 1914 and contains four great chambers with enormous Gothic fireplaces, tapestries, and brick vaulting. There are spectacular views across the Fens from the battl

Gunby Hall

Gunby Hall

13.71km from Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre

The National Trust's Gunby Hall and Gardens is a beautiful 18th-century house with Victorian gardens located in Lincolnshire. The house has been the seat of the Massingberd family since the 15th century but what we see today is a sedate William and Mary mansion, built in 1700 by Sir William Massingberd. Surrounding the hall is a 100-acre park, listed as being of historical significance and laid out in the style of Lancelot "Capability" Brown.

National Trust - Gunby Estate, Hall and Gardens

National Trust - Gunby Estate, Hall and Gardens

13.74km from Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre

Gunby Estate, Hall and Gardens, home to the Massingberd family from 1700 until 1967. The Hall has three floors to explore while outside the gardens are full of color throughout the seasons. Paths across the park and estate offer gentle strolls as well as longer walks, where you can tread the footsteps of Gunby’s former guests including Lord Alfred Tennyson and Ralph Vaughan-Williams. The estate is a green oasis in an area of intensive arable cultivation and increasing commercial development.

Woodhall Spa Golf Club

Woodhall Spa Golf Club

13.74km from Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre

Woodhall Spa - Voted best inland course in the UK by Golf World Magazine, a classic British heathland course. It is ‘Home of English Golf’ and is host to the excellent National Golf Centre alongside two amazing golf courses. The club has hosted many prestigious amateur championships including the English Amateur and the Brabazon Trophy on several occasions. It offers an all-around golfing experience, the excellent facilities onsite give golfers the opportunity to fine-tune their game.

Jubilee Park

Jubilee Park

14.8km from Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre

Jubilee Park at Woodhall Spa is a fun-filled venue offering a range of outdoor activities guaranteed to entertain the whole family especially during the summer months when both the lido and caravan site are open. Other park amenities include a camping and caravanning site, children's playground, picnic area, bowling green, croquet lawn, cricket field, putting course, tennis courts and a cafe.

Batemans Brewery

Batemans Brewery

16.07km from Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre

Batemans Brewery is an English brewery based at Salem Bridge Brewery in Wainfleet, Lincolnshire, and founded in 1874. The company owns 69 public houses, with 23 situated in Boston alone. The brewery focuses on cask-conditioned ales, their best known being XB and XXXB. Their slogan is "Good Honest Ales".

Maud Foster Mill

Maud Foster Mill

17.48km from Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre

Maud Foster Windmill is a seven-storey, five sail windmill located by the Maud Foster Drain in Skirbeck, Boston, Lincolnshire. It was built in 1819 for the brothers Thomas and Isaac Reckitt by the Hull millwrights Norman and Smithson. it is still producing stone-ground organic flour today. You can climb to the top of the mill and see the machinery and millstones working and there are fine views from the outside balcony.

Alford Manor House

Alford Manor House

17.89km from Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre

The Alford Manor House is a museum, tea rooms, and licensed venue available for hire. Outside, the barn houses a museum with displays on local history, and recreations of period scenes, including a cobbler's shop and a chemist's. It is a very rare example of a composite structure, featuring a wooden frame with reed and plaster (visible from within the house), encased in brick. Ground-floor and first-floor rooms feature design interventions from Georgian through to Victorian times, while the atti

St Botolph's Church

St Botolph's Church

17.99km from Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre

St Botolph's Church is a parish church in the Church of England in Boston, Lincolnshire. It is one of the country's largest and most historically significant churches. Its famous medieval tower, known as Boston Stump dominates the skyline for miles around and for centuries has acted as a beacon for travellers. It was long used as a landmark for sailors, and on a clear day can be seen from Norfolk.

Boston Guildhall

Boston Guildhall

18.27km from Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre

Boston Guildhall is a magnificent building that is wonderfully preserved with a wealth of original features. It was built in the 1390s by the Guild of St Mary, a collection of the wealthiest and most prominent members of Boston society. Works of art include a portrait, painted by Thomas Phillips, of Sir Joseph Banks, recorder of Boston in 1813, who sailed with Captain James Cook aboard the Endeavour on the first great voyage to discover Australia. The guildhall also holds a copy of Foxe's Book o

Claythorpe Watermill

Claythorpe Watermill

18.52km from Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre

Claythorpe Watermill is a small, family-run visitor attraction. One of the loveliest things to do in Lincolnshire. The mill last ran in the late 1970s but you can still see the remaining millworks and learn more about its varied industrial history. Built around 1720, This Grade II listed former mill ran until the late 1970s, powered by a rare turbine. You can see some of the old mill works in what’s now the café.

Pilgrim Fathers Memorial

Pilgrim Fathers Memorial

22.07km from Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre

Pilgrim Fathers Memorial was built in 1957, is just outside Boston at Fishtoft. It marks the area of Scotia Creek where, in 1607, a group of puritans, who were later to be known as the Pilgrim Fathers, attempting to flee to Holland were arrested and handed over to the authorities. It commemorates the attempt at finding religious freedom in September, 1607 by the Scrooby Congregation, a group of English Separatist Protestants who left for Holland. They were precursors of the Pilgrims who later c

Gibraltar Point National Nature Reserve

Gibraltar Point National Nature Reserve

22.72km from Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre

Gibraltar Point is a dynamic stretch of unspoilt coastline running southwards from the edge of Skegness to the mouth of the Wash. There a number of walkways, cycle tracks and fully accessible paths through Gibraltar Point. You can also explore the Nature Centre housed within the old Coastguard station. The reserve extends for a distance of about 5 km along the coast, from the southern end of Skegness to the northern corner of The Wash.

Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway

Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway

22.84km from Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre

The Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway is a 60 cm narrow-gauge heritage railway, approximately 0.75 miles long, situated in Ingoldmells at the award-winning Skegness Water Leisure Park on the beautiful Lincolnshire coast. The railway has origins in the network of narrow gauge railways which served Lincolnshire’s potato growing industry. Track and rolling stock came from the trench railways built by the British military in the First World War to take troops and munitions to the front lines.

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Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre

Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre

East Kirkby, Spilsby PE23 4DE, UK

Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Museum is an Aircraft Museum based on a 1940's RAF Lancaster Bomber airfield. The center's main exhibit is Avro Lancaster Mk VII, NX611, named Just Jane after a popular wartime comic character. It also houses the cockpit of an English Electric Canberra WH957, and the wreckage of Supermarine Spitfire Vb BL655; it crashed in July 1943, killing its Canadian pilot, Flying Officer Norman Alexander Watt. There are two aircraft undergoing restoration to static condition,