About us

We love walking and wear our Walkers are Welcome badge with pride. Around Caistor and the Lincolnshire Wolds we’re absolutely spoilt for walks, so why not come and see for yourself. Described by the Guardian as "a ramblers' paradise", and with a Times top 20 walk on our doorstep, we have some of the best walks in Lincolnshire. So whether you’re looking for short walks, long walks, guided walks, historic walks, woody walks, hilly walks, pub walks or dog walks, we have it all in and around Caistor.

 

We have lots of friends in the area from our fellow Walkers are Welcomers over in Market Rasen and Horncastle to the local Ramblers Association, Lincolnshire Wolds Countryside Services and Love Caistor & The Wolds.

And we've like to give special thanks to Lincolnshire Wolds Small Grant Scheme for funding this site and all the support they've given us. 

About Caistor

Caistor is a beautiful little town on top of The Lincolnshire Wolds – part of which is designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Here's a map if you want to find us.

The town has a rich and interesting history including time as a Roman garrison and an important Georgian market town, much of which has been retained in the character of the streets and buildings today.

Photo by John Esser

Its position at the northern gateway to the Lincolnshire Wolds gives it access to a range of interesting walks which include The Viking Way, the long distance footpath running 147miles from Oakham in Rutland to the River Humber, linking with the Wolds Way in Yorkshire.

Around Caistor lies some of the best undiscovered landscape in eastern England, with rolling hills of chalk downland, pretty villages and unspoilt countryside. From the Wolds south of Caistor there are spectacular views of Lincolnshire, north to the Humber Bridge, south to Lincoln Cathedral, west to the Trent Valley and east to the sea.

About The Lincolnshire Wolds

The attractive chalk escarpment of hills and valleys was sculpted by the meltwaters of the last glacial period, about 10,000 years ago.

The Lincolnshire Wolds is a nationally important and cherished landscape. Part of it was designated as the Wolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) in 1973.   

Photo by John Esser

The landscape offers some of the most wonderful scenic views of rolling chalk hills and valleys, along with sandstone and clay vales.

The Lincolnshire Wolds is the highest area of land in eastern England between Yorkshire and Kent. The land rises in height and extent from the Horncastle and Spilsby area in the south of the county  to its highest point, Wolds Top (168m (551ft)) at Normanby le Wold two miles south of Caistor. North of the River Humber the hills continue as the Yorkshire Wolds.

The Wolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty covers 560 square kilometres, while the Countryside Service recognises a wider Lincolnshire Wolds Character/Natural Area which incorporates the AONB and the neighbouring areas of the (geographical) Wolds to the north and south.