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!

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.

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.

Full marks for being a tiny pace so full of history. Once…read moreknown as Irebi/Iribi this hamlet has around 200 inhabitants. Why is it remarkable? It has a large Iron Age settlement site and a Civil War fort across the road. Irby, Wilk Farm Fort..civil war fort. Iron age, Coins and pieces of weapons found plus cremations. When I worked in archeology I had a young work experience boy helping me catalogue in the store. He asked what was in a box. I didn't know and so we jointly struggled to get the lid off. We were covered in cremation ashes from here. I swallowed some..swear I was two people for a week. We decided to end the day and go home and shower but were told to help make refreshments, urgently for some 20 dignitaries. Our protests were cut short so we went in and made tea and coffee. As we left I loudly said..oh, if you have any bits floating in your drinks.. they were sipping away.. we were bullied into coming in and helping even though we are covered in ashes from a cremation. Lots of choking and spitting :) Ghost guide: Rosamund Guy is known as the Irby Boggle, and is seen on the open land between Irby and the River Humber. She was betrothed to Neville Randall. One evening, on 1st November, 1455, shortly before they were to be married, the couple met at Irby Dale Woods. A lovers tiff built up into a violent quarrel, the result of which was that Neville Randall murdered his fiancée.

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.

This has to be one of the most amazing places in the world…read more Spurn Point (or Spurn Head) is a thin strip of land jutting out into the Humber estuary. It's several miles long, which means you can walk to the end and be almost surrounded by sea. It's extraordinarily beautiful; the views comprise lots and lots of sea, and lots and lots of sky you may prefer a few hills and mountains in your ideal scenery, but the combination of sea and sky that you get here certainly appeals to me. The site is owned by the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and is a haven for wildlife of all sorts. Indeed Spurn Head is a great place for bird-spotting as apparently many rare species can be seen. The place has an interesting history too. All in all it's a great place to visit, although it does take an age to get to -- there are a lot of East yorkshire villages to drive through before you get there. But it's well worth the effort!

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.

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.

- [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

This was one of our favorite activities in York! An absolute MUST if you're visiting. These old…read morecity walls surround most of the city and run about 2 miles long. It is free to go on the walk and there are guides throughout the city that will keep you on track. We did it in about an hour and a half (with a stop in to a cute coffee shop along the wall!). It is a great way to see the city + get some exercise after eating all of the incredible English pub food! There are multiple, narrow staircases and it definitely is not fit for a stroller so we carried our baby in his wearable carrier! This worked out really well. We would absolutely do this again on another visit - the scenery is gorgeous and it was a really cool experience with activations along the way.

The admission is quite expensive, a lovely hall and the gardens are beautiful. The best time to…read morecome is near Christmas when they have deer feeding, you ride in a trailer at the back of a tractor and scatter food for the deer, the children loved it, so did we - so much better than Christmas shopping. Talking of which there is an excellent Christmas craft fair where you can pick up some great individual gifts. Nearby Triton Inn does a wonderful Sunday lunch.

An elegant country stately home build in the 18th century…read more The admission price is fairly expensive comapred to other stately homes but if you are in the area try and make a visit. There are beautiful walled garden with some lovely roses, fruit bushes and herbaceous border. Entrance to the house is through the Wagoners Museum and there is a cafe serving local produce on your way out.