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Alford Manor House

Alford Manor House

4.92km from Claythorpe Watermill

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

Mablethorpe Beach

Mablethorpe Beach

11.26km from Claythorpe Watermill

Mablethorpe Beach is an attractive golden sandy beach offering a fun-filled, family friendly day out. Visit this beautiful Blue Flag Award Winning beach with far-reaching soft golden sand. Discover donkey rides, nearby fairground, cafés, fish and chips, crazy golf and more. There are places to eat including some wonderful fish and chips. There is also Dunes Leisure where there are plenty of family-friendly fairground rides.

Louth Museum

Louth Museum

12.08km from Claythorpe Watermill

Louth Museum is an award winning visitor attraction in the historic market town of Louth, nestling at the foot of the Lincolnshire Wolds. There are four galleries, a library and a gift shop and also there are free activities for kids, and several short exhibitions each season.

Hubbard's Hills

Hubbard's Hills

12.42km from Claythorpe Watermill

Hubbard's Hills is an area of Natural Beauty, directly west of Louth. It is a highly unique glacial overspill channel formed as a result of the last ice age, over 40,000 years ago. Today it is very popular for dog walking and picnics. This charming miniature valley, intersected by the River Lud, was formed by melting glaciers at the end of the last ice age. Today it is a scene of sloping fields, woodland trails and riverside paths, perfect for a family picnic or leisurely afternoon dog walk.

Saltfleetby-Theddlethorpe Dunes National Nature Reserve

A beautiful nature reserve that contains tidal sand and mudflats, salt and freshwater marshes and sand dunes. It’s a really beautiful place to go for a walk or spend some time on the beach. You will feel miles from anywhere. It covers a massive 951 hectares and most of the reserve is open to the public and you are requested to keep out of the signed sanctuary areas. There are various routes including an easy access trail with display boards through Rimac.

Gunby Hall

Gunby Hall

13.25km from Claythorpe Watermill

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

13.28km from Claythorpe Watermill

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.

Moggs Eye

Moggs Eye

13.38km from Claythorpe Watermill

A beautiful and quiet natural beach backed by grassy sand dunes. The wide strip of golden sand which slopes gently into the sea is a great destination for beachgoers. It is also quite popular with walkers, there is a variety of good walks in the area. There are currently no restrictions on dog walking on the beach. It is also a good surfing destination and also you can spend a good time there.

Snipe Dales

Snipe Dales

13.68km from Claythorpe Watermill

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.

Bolingbroke Castle

Bolingbroke Castle

15.43km from Claythorpe Watermill

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.

Wolds Wildlife Park

Wolds Wildlife Park

17.13km from Claythorpe Watermill

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 Aviation Heritage Centre

Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre

18.52km from Claythorpe Watermill

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,

Fantasy Island

Fantasy Island

18.6km from Claythorpe Watermill

Fantasy Island is a family amusement park in Ingoldmells on the East Coast of England. Opened in 1993, it sits in a busy spread of holiday parks. Enjoy exhilarating rides and roller coasters that are sure to test even the bravest thrill-seekers’ nerves. With fun for all the family, Fantasy Island is guaranteed to have everyone laughing and smiling.

Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway

Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway

18.9km from Claythorpe Watermill

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.

Lincolnshire Wolds Railway

Lincolnshire Wolds Railway

20.04km from Claythorpe Watermill

Natureland Seal Sanctuary

Natureland Seal Sanctuary

21.73km from Claythorpe Watermill

Natureland is a seal sanctuary, with a seal hospital, a small zoo, tropical glasshouses and an aquarium. Animals include seals, African penguins, crocodiles, goats, tarantulas, snakes, terrapins, scorpions, as well as tropical butterflies and birds. Glasshouses contain many exotic plants, including cacti from the US, Mediterranean shrubs, and banana plants.

Batemans Brewery

Batemans Brewery

21.89km from Claythorpe Watermill

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".

Skegness Pier

Skegness Pier

22km from Claythorpe Watermill

Skegness Pier is one of the largest Entertainment Centres on the East Coast of Lincolnshire. Discover everything from traditional seaside amusements to Laser Quests, Virtual Reality experiences, Escape Rooms, Bowling, an American style diner and so much more with amazing value for money offers. The pier has had various renovations in modern times, including redecking and waterproofing, allowing for operation during winter periods and permitting usage during rainy conditions.

Skegness Clock Tower

Skegness Clock Tower

22.15km from Claythorpe Watermill

Skegness Clock Tower was built in 1899 by Edmund Winter of Liverpool to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. One of the iconic attractions in this area and is an example of the medieval period.

Lincolnshire Wildlife Park

Lincolnshire Wildlife Park

23.08km from Claythorpe Watermill

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.

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Claythorpe Watermill

Claythorpe Watermill

Claythorpe, Alford LN13 0DU, UK

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.