Heckington

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Heckington’s eight-sailed windmill is the only survivor of its kind in the country, its unusual sail count built to catch every scrap of fen wind. The village also has an elaborately carved 14th-century church, St Andrew’s, a showpiece of the Decorated style. Both stand within a short walk of Heckington station, which is on the doorstep on the Sleaford–Boston line.

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Heckington Windmill

Windmill near Heckington

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

0.1 km W

St Andrew's Church, Heckington

Church near Heckington

A jewel of the Decorated style, its carved Easter Sepulchre and flowing window tracery among the best in England.

0.8 km N

Cogglesford Watermill

Windmill near Sleaford

Working 18th-century watermill on the River Slea at Sleaford, milling flour on event days on a site used for over a thousand years.

7.6 km W

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Battle of Britain Memorial Flight

Attraction near Coningsby

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

15.3 km NE

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Tattershall Castle

Castle near Coningsby

Soaring red-brick medieval tower in flat farmland.

15.4 km NE

Tattershall College

Landmark near Coningsby

Roofless remains of the school Lord Cromwell founded in the 1400s for the choristers of Tattershall's collegiate church, a short walk from his castle.

15.8 km NE