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.

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.

Very interesting to look at, but unfortunately it tends to be overrun with Goths and broken glass…read more The steps are quite steep, so keep an eye on your little ones. Shame, as it has a lot of potential.

This was excavated a few years ago and the foundations can be seen..good place to sit eat your…read moresarnie from herbies. Beverley Gate gave access to the town of Hull through its walled defenses. The wall was built in the fourteenth century by Edward II who was granted permission to build a defensive stone wall around the town. It was rebuilt using brick between Beverley Gate gave access to the town of Hull through its walled defenses. The wall was built in the fourteenth century by Edward II who was granted permission to build a defensive stone wall around the town. It was rebuilt using brick between1330 and 1410. In 1642 King Charles I traveled from York to Hull to seize the city for its considerable arms that had been left after the Scottish War. Sir John Hotham (see Ye Old White Hart: plotting room) ordered the gates to be closed refusing the King entry to the town - an act that is thought to have triggered the English Civil War. Beverley Gate was demolished in 1776 to make way for the development of Queens Dock. (Now Queens Gardens)

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.

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.

Stunning building, I thoroughly recommend the view from the roof if you visit on an open day.read more

England's largest Parish Church, dating back to the12th century. The brickwork is some of the…read moreoldest (post-Roman) in the country.

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.