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Location

Notes

1

Hartsholme Park

Hartsholme Hall’s gardens were laid out by Edward Milner in 1862 and was later used as an officer’s mess and military training centre in WWII. The hall and 130 acres were sold to Lincolnshire CC in 1951 for £5,225.

2

Boultham Park & River Witham

Site of development of the world’s first tanks. Military secrecy had them referred to as “water carriers” but local people referred to them as “tanks” and the name stuck.

3

Dixon Street

Lincoln Central Mosque and Cultural Centre & bridge across the River Witham.

4

Brayford Pool

Name dates back to 10^th century during the Viking occupation. “Briet – Ford” meaning a broad and fordable river crossing.

5

Royal William IV pub & underpass mural

Completed in April 2019 by James Mayle in association with the owners of the nearby Royal William IV pub. The dramatic mural has a contemporary twist, based on the historical imagery from Lincoln’s heritage during the 18th and 19th centuries, also with links to King William IV and his service in the Royal Navy.

6

Glory Hole

Built in 1550 this is the oldest bridge with houses in England. Generations of boatsmen have called it the Glory Hole as it constrains boat movements, especially after heavy rainfall. However, in 1743 the water depth was measured at only 4 inches!

7

Waterside North

The sculpture (designed by Richard Broadbent and sponsored by Alstom Power, now Siemens) takes its inspiration from turbine blades, symbolic of the rich engineering heritage of Lincoln. The theme of empowerment is reinforced by the sculpture’s position in City Square, linking the important ideal of empowerment and the citizen. The figures reach out to empower one another, just as the blades empower one another within a wind turbine. The sculpture stands 16m tall at its highest point & is the tallest in Lincolnshire.

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Waterside Centre

Stop 15 mins. WC inside far left. Cross over footbridge to proceed along Waterside South.

9

Footbridges over Broadgate & then Montague Street footbridge back over the Witham.

Historically much of the workers' housing for the major engineering companies of Clayton and Shuttleworth and Ruston/Proctor was on the north side of the Witham, whereas the factories were on Waterside South. Consequently, the Montague Street footbridge had remarkably heavy use.

10

Lincoln Arboretum

WC on left just inside gates. In July 1870, Victorian gardener Edward Milner was employed by the Corporation to develop a design for what would become Lincoln’s first public park.  It occupies 22 acres and is a grade II listed park.

11

Maze

The children’s maze was commissioned as part of a £3 million restoration in 2003.

12

Lindum Terrace

Numbers 14-17 Lindum Terrace have both a strong historical link to the Arboretum (the sale of these properties helped to fund the park) & a physical link, as their plots are within the area that would have originally been set aside for the park. There is only one Lindum Terrace in GB.

13

Upper Lindum Street

The Grammar School (now Lincoln Minster School) was designed by William Watkins in 1884. Watkins was also responsible for many other Lincoln buildings including the façade of the Assembly Rooms in Bailgate.

14

Winnowsty Lane

Again, a unique name for a street in GB. Locals refer to it as “Winsty Lane”.

15

Eastgate

Look out for the gargoyle head peeking out of the wall. This is supposedly representative of the Grammar School Head Teacher looking out for truants!

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The Lincoln Hotel & Roman wall

One of the Roman gates to the city of Lindum Colonia. A section of the East wall remains at the rear of the hotel car park.

17

East Bight

A short distance along East Bight you can see part of the Roman city north wall and ditch. The bank was originally 3 metres wide with the ditch being over 4 metres wide and almost 2 metres deep. In front of the piece of wall still standing was a Roman water tank called a castellum aquae (its base is marked out on the grass). An aqueduct would have brought water into this part of the city and it would have been stored here then piped into Lincoln. The water tank was needed to clean sewers and for the public baths. A Roman baths complex was found and excavated behind the wall on the opposite side of East Bight, over the wall that now stands.

18

Newport Arch, Bailgate

A 3rd century Roman arch and the oldest still actively used by traffic in UK. As the north gate of the city, it carried the major Roman road, Ermine Street northward almost in a straight line to the Humber. The line of the wall is marked in cobbles. There is no record of any attack upon the arch or the city walls during Roman times, though the gates here were attacked in the 13th century, during the Battle of Lincoln Fair.

19

White hart Hotel

Reputedly haunted by ghosts of a Highwayman and a Maid.

20

Lincoln Castle

Stop Lunch 45 mins.

One of only 2 Motte & Bailey castles in the country. Lincoln Castle was built by order of William I in the late 11th century. It consists of a double motte and bailey in an excellent state of preservation. It is built in the south-western corner of the Roman area of Lincoln.

It has two mottes (mounds) and a large bailey (outer wall), which is a very rare design, as most motte and bailey castles have just one motte.

21

Crown Court

The current building, which was designed by Sir Robert Smirke in the Gothic style and built at a cost of £40,000, was completed in 1823.

22

Drawbridge

Opened in 1993 & during construction, 3 Roman skeletons were found buried just inside the walls.

23

The Lawns Centre

Formally Lincoln Lunatic asylum opened in 1820. Edward Parker Charlesworth (1783–1853) was an English physician, known as an innovator in psychiatric treatment.

It was at the asylum that, in the 1830s, Robert Gardiner Hill, with the support of Edward Parker Charlesworth, pioneered a mode of treatment that suited "all types" of patients, so that mechanical restraints and coercion could be dispensed with. The facility became known as the Lincoln Lunatic Hospital in 1905 and The Lawn Hospital in 1921. City of Lincoln Council acquired the hospital and operated it as an events venue until August 2016 when it sold it to R. W. Stokes & Sons who have redeveloped the property as a new business HQ, cafe, restaurant and theatre.

24

John Dawber garden

The John Dawber Garden includes areas representative of Lincoln's twin town of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Germany, and its Friendship City of Tangshan in China. The Moon Gate is a traditional feature of Chinese gardens, rising out of the earth, like the moon rises in the sky. A Chinese inscription on the wall translates to: "a sense of the past explains the present and foretells the future". John was a son of Robert Dawber, a brewer of fine ales in Lincoln from 1826. One of his elder brothers, Robert William, provided Lincoln City with their first football ground in 1884 prior to their move to Sincil Bank in 1895. Following John’s death in 1904 he left the bulk of his estate including the brewery and 52 pubs in a charitable trust providing for the poorer folk of Lincoln. This was administered by the Dawber Relief Committee of Lincoln Corporation.

25

Museum of Lincolnshire Life

Formally a military barracks. One room was used as an ammunition store and has a heavily reinforced roof designed to contain an explosion!

26

View of Ellis Mill

The last surviving mill of nine in Lincoln. Built in 1798 and still in full working order although currently closed for maintenance repairs.

27

Aldermans Walk

Borders West Common which includes the course of the original Lincoln handicap horse race which was last run in Lincoln in 1964. The original grandstand remains but is unused.

28

Carholme golf club

Oldest golf course in Lincolnshire with a par of 68.

29

Foss Dyke

The Foss Dyke, which runs into Brayford Pool, connects the River Trent at Torksey to the River Witham. It is believed to be the oldest canal in England still in use. Built around 120 AD by the Romans, it was renovated in 1121, during the reign of King Henry I. Improvements made in 1671 included a navigable lock at Torksey, & warehousing & wharves were built at Brayford Pool.

30

Pyewipe Inn

Family run canalside inn popular with narrowboats using Foss Dyke.

31

A46 Underpass

Watch your head!

32

Daisy Maid Ice Cream

Stop 30 mins. Last WC on route as Hartsholme Park toilets close at 15:30. Originally established by the daughter of the farm owner to utilise excess milk. Now the farms primary customer.

33

Black Bridge

At the border between Hartsholme Park and Swanholme Lakes Nature reserve. Swanholme Lakes was originally part of the Hartsholme Hall estate.

34

White Bridge

Built in 1902 & repaired in 2012 using the original pylons.

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Hartsholme Park café Finish

On the site of the first café which burnt down. Built in the 1990’s.