Places to explore in LincolnshireEngland · East Midlands

Triple-towered medieval cathedral crowning the hilltop city, once the tallest building in the world and visible across the plain for miles.

One of England's largest parish churches, its 272ft 'Stump' tower and octagonal lantern a landmark across the fens and the Wash.

Norman walls guarding a Magna Carta original.

Soaring red-brick medieval tower in flat farmland.

Modest limestone farmhouse where Isaac Newton was born and, under its apple tree, worked out gravity during the plague years.

Strange three-way medieval bridge stranded in the streets of Crowland, built over long-vanished channels of the fen rivers.

Coastal nature reserve where over two thousand grey seal pups are born each winter within feet of the viewing fence.

Lincolnshire

One of the best-preserved medieval manor houses in England, with a great hall and vast original kitchen in the heart of Gainsborough.

The only surviving eight-sailed windmill in the country, a working brick tower producing wholemeal and white flour beside the station.

Lincoln's first public park, laid out by Edward Milner in the 1870s, watched by a stone lion.

Working hangar at RAF Coningsby housing the nation's only airworthy Lancaster alongside Spitfires and Hurricanes.

Ancient limewood remnant east of Lincoln famous for its butterflies, with a butterfly garden and waymarked woodland walks.