Discover the countryside: Rutland and Lincolnshire
LOCAL TRADITION: Save a village phone box (Rutland and Lincolnshire)
Ron Simpson BEM, Chair of CPRE Rutland and Lincolnshire, recommends looking twice at the red telephone box in your nearest village. To mark its centenary year, CPRE Rutland and Lincolnshire is helping restore up to five heritage phone boxes across the two counties, working with the Community Heartbeat Trust, a charity that has adopted thousands of decommissioned boxes nationwide and repurposed many for defibrillators. Communities can apply for funding towards restoring their local box and finding it a new use, whether that’s a defibrillator, a book exchange or something the village dreams up itself. Even the most ordinary fixtures of village life, easy to walk past without a second glance, can become something a community rallies around and gives new life to.
PLACE TO EXPLORE: Tealby, Market Rasen
The Lincolnshire Wolds is awash with sweeping vistas and beautiful villages. Tealby ticks plenty of boxes. It’s a charming village with a small village shop, two pubs (including the King’s Head — one of the oldest pubs in the country) and plenty of footpaths out into the Wolds, taking in the lush grasslands and undulating arable landscapes.
TRAIL: Humberston Fitties to Tetney Lock (circular)
A really interesting circular route — about 3 hours non-stop at a leisurely pace — firstly taking in the coast and quiet beaches south of Cleethorpes, in the Humberston Fitties Conservation Area. The trail then runs south east along the Tetney saltmarshes, before switching west along the Louth Canal towards the village of Tetney. The route then circles back north and north west through arable farmland (and some industrial land) back towards Cleethorpes. A diverse route with a plethora of sweeping views, wildflowers and wetland birds.
