Lincolnshire, second largest of England's counties, invites the tourist who has found East Anglia to his liking still further to extend his peregrinations along the North Sea coastland. In this generously acred shire, it is tine, lies an ample section of the Fenland., and also more watery levels around the lower reaches of the Trent. But this same county holds a seductive stretch of dunebound shore, whose golden strand is unrivaled for bathing; within its confines is the tumbled upland of the Wolds, a secluded corner of which, centring upon Somersby near Horncastle, was the homeland of Tennyson; and likewise in the shire is that singular hog's back northward or Lincoln known as the Cliff, along which, to this day, runs one of the straightest and loneliest of Roman ways.
Skegness and Cleethorpes pro4de life and amusement in abundance beside a seashore whose bracing nature is proverbial, while pleasant, modern Woodhall Spa serves those who like their leisure inland. Nor can historic interest be deemed deficient when among the three old Divisions of Lincolnshire (Lindsey, Holland and Kesteven) are to be found Boston, famed for its lofty " Stump," the fine brick keep at Tattershall, the ruins at Torksey and Thornton. Abbey, the Wesley associations at Epworth, and the fascinating old city of Lincoln, which, even before the Roman had there located his “Colonia," and long ages ere the Norman had laid the foundations of its glorious minster, was a town already set proudly upon a hill.
From: The AA road Book of England and Wales c.1920
©Biff Vernon 2001