Things To Do near West Barkwith
Skegness Aquarium, Skegness (approx. 28 miles away)
Skegness Aquarium is host to a diverse range of tropical sea life including rays, seahorses and sharks as well as much more marine life to be discovered. Follow the iconic story of Treasure Island throughout our fabulously themed award winning attraction. Be entertained by our daily interactive t...
RNLI Lifeboat Station, Skegness (approx. 28 miles away)
The RNLI station can be found at the Tower Esplanade, Skegness. Covering part of the busy Lincolnshire coastline, it has operated an all-weather lifeboat for over 175 years. With free access, you can go inside and look around the station, see the lifeboat and, in most cases, pre-book a tour. You can...
St Mary's Church, Frampton (approx. 28 miles away)
Frampton is a pleasant village in the county, situated just to the south of the town of Boston. The village lies on the edge of one of the great marine creek levees formed during the Bronze Age.The medieval church of Saint Mary, with its imposing limestone brickwork and magnificent tower, dates from...
Skegness Beach, Skegness (approx. 28 miles away)
Skegness is a seaside town and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of the county.The first Butlins holiday resort was opened here in 1936. Partially owing to this, the resort is one of the better known seaside resorts in the United Kingdom.Superb long stretches of sandy beach, slightly elevate...
Winterton Sculpture Trail, Winterton (approx. 28 miles away)
The Winterton Sculpture Trail is a project delivered by National Lottery funded organisation Winterton 2022, which is driven by a volunteer committee of Winterton residents, and is part of the Big Local. During 2017, Winterton 2022 commissioned the production of a number of tractor and owl...
Barton Clay Pits Visitor Centre, Barton-upon-Humber (approx. 28 miles away)
The Barton Clay Pits once supplied clay for thriving brick and tile-making industries have now been flooded and transformed into a nature reserve. The Clay Pits Nature Reserve covers a 5 mile area along the Humber bank offering attractive walks and opportunities to view local wildlife, especially...
The Water's Edge Country Park & Visitor Centre, Barton-upon-Humber (approx. 28 miles away)
The Waters Edge Country Park, north of Barton-Upon-Humber, on the edge of the Humber estuary, has something to offer all ages. It features an intensely diverse variety of plant and wildlife and several rare species. It was established in the mid 1990s across clay quarries, freshwater lakes, rare...
Boston Classic Car Show, Kirton (approx. 28 miles away)
The Annual Classic Car Show is held during August at Graves Park, Kirton. A popular and open air event it features nearly 500 vehicles on display and there are also over 50 stalls to browse. A wonder family day out -- 2015 sees them celebrating their 25th anniversary. Please vist the websit...
Church of St Mary & the Holy Rood, Donington (approx. 28 miles away)
The building is a Grade I listed Anglican parish church dedicated to St Mary and the Holy Rood. It is almost a complete combination of early Decorated and late Perpendicular style. Its chancel, however, is mainly Early English. The church tower and spire rise to 240 feet. There are memorials i...
Captain Matthew Flinders RN, Donington (approx. 28 miles away)
Born in Donington, Matthew Flinders was a Captain in the Royal Navy, a navigator and cartographer. Flinders led the first circumnavigation of Australia and identified it as a continent. However, with Britain at war with France, a suspicious governor kept him under arrest for more t...
Kirton Library, Kirton (approx. 28 miles away)
Kirton Library has moved and has been relocated in the New Life Community Church. The hub prvides a selection of library services and is run by local volunteers and members of the New Life Community Church. There is a good selection of books to choose from and shelves are well-stocked. Open...
RSPB Freiston Shore, Thurlby (approx. 28 miles away)
At Freiston Shore you can get excellent views of waterbirds on the salt water lagoon, especially at high tide when wading birds roost, sometimes in their thousands. Summer is a good time to see nesting wading birds, including avocets and ringed plovers. In winter, brent geese congregate along wit...
Far Ings National Nature Reserve, Barton-upon-Humber (approx. 28 miles away)
For centuries the thick layer of clay which borders the Humber estuary has been used to make tiles, bricks and cement.At the industry's height in the late 1800s, hundreds of men were employed to dig the clay by hand. The tile yards were abandoned in the 1950s, leaving the pits to fill naturally with...
Pilgrim Fathers Memorial, Fishtoft (approx. 28 miles away)
Near this place in September 1607 those later known as "The Pilgrim Fathers" made their first attempt to find religious freedom across the seas. Erected 1957 is a small granite obelisk mounted on a granite block to commemorate this.
Normanby Hall, Scunthorpe (approx. 28 miles away)
Normanby Hall is a classic English mansion, located near the village of Burton-upon-Stather, 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Scunthorpe. It was built during the early 19th century, from the designs of Robert Smirke, for Sir Robert Sheffield whose family had resided on the site since the early-mid 16th...