Gentle chalk and clay hills rolling through quiet Lincolnshire farmland, with the Viking Way threading their length
The Wolds are Lincolnshire’s high ground, which in this famously flat county means rolling chalk and clay hills, hedged fields and villages tucked into the folds. They cover 559 square kilometres of farmland, quiet country away from the main roads.
Normanby Top is about the highest point, though the hills here are more about long views and gentle gradients than any summit. The Viking Way runs the length of the Wolds, a good long-distance path to take in stages, and there are small nature reserves like Calceby Marsh and Candlesby Hill dotted through the chalk.
This is Tennyson’s home country; he grew up at Somersby among these lanes. It’s easy walking that suits any time of year, best in late spring when the hedgerows are up and the fields are green.
