Outdoors

 The Lincolnshire Wolds is a fantastic natural area for enjoying a wide range of outdoor activities including golf, horse riding, walking, cycling, fishing and bird watching.

As an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, The Lincolnshire Wolds is ideal for outdoors enthusiasts and nature lovers - with miles of undulating open countryside, excellent navigation routes and pretty villages to stop by and pick up some lunch.

Snipe Dales, one of only a few surviving ‘wet valley’ systems is a nature reserve at the southern edge of the Wolds. Here you’ll catch sight of many breeding birds including warblers, pipits and yellow hammer as well as many varieties of butterfly.

Walking in the Wolds is both well catered for and extremely popular – indeed The Viking Way, a 147 mile long walking route running from The Humber Bridge to Oakham in Rutland, is a key feature on any walking enthusiast’s map. The Lincolnshire Wolds Walking Festival is an annual celebration of the walks and footpaths of the Wolds and is a free event, open to all.

If horseback is your preferred method of transport The Wolds has some excellent bridleways and hacking terrain with a good selection of horse riding schools. You can also take your horse on holiday and stay in a cottage with horse riding stables.

The perfect mix of quiet country lanes, beautiful scenery and gentle rolling terrain makes the Lincolnshire Wolds a great place to enjoy cycling. The Hull to Harwich cycle route runs directly through the Lincolnshire Wolds, taking you through a delightful scene of hamlets, market towns, windmills, elegant church spires and welcoming pubs.

Further information

• Louth Tourist Information Centre - 01507 601111 or email louthinfo@e-lindsey.gov.uk
• Search for events taking place in the Lincolnshire Wolds