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Tortoiseshell Wood

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Tortoiseshell Wood is one of 116 Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Lincolnshire. Stamford Station is about 14.6 km away to the south-east. Other SSSIs nearby include Swinstead Valley and Clipsham Old Quarry and Pickworth Wood.

More places to visit near Tortoiseshell Wood

Photo of Clipsham Yew Tree Avenue, a garden in Rutland, central England.

Clipsham Yew Tree Avenue

Garden near Clipsham

A free 200-year-old avenue of 150 clipped yews near Clipsham, shaped since 1870 into birds, animals and topiary whimsy.

3.5 km SE

Photo along the Viking Way, a 147-mile long-distance path running from Barton-upon-Humber to Oakham, central England.

Viking Way

Long-distance path

Through the old Danelaw from the Humber Bridge, over the Lincolnshire Wolds and along the limestone Edge to Rutland Water.

4.6 km SW · Lincolnshire, Rutland & Leicestershire

Photo of Woolsthorpe Manor, a house near Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, central England.Highlight

Woolsthorpe Manor

House near Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth

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

5.9 km NW

Photo of Easton Walled Gardens, a garden in Lincolnshire, central England.

Easton Walled Gardens

Garden near Easton

Twelve acres of restored terraces, meadows and famous sweet peas around a lost Grantham hall, revived from wartime dereliction.

7.6 km NW

Photo of Exton (Exton), a village in Rutland, central England.Highlight

Exton (Exton)

Village

Rutland's chocolate-box village, its 300-year-old stone cottages and roses framing a perfectly kept green.

9.5 km SW · Rutland

Photo of Rocks by Rail, a visitor attraction near Cottesmore, Rutland, central England.Highlight

Rocks by Rail

Attraction near Cottesmore

A living ironstone-quarry railway museum near Cottesmore, with working steam and diesel locomotives over 19 acres.

9.8 km SW