Find the 617 Squadron memorial in the village

See the Dambusters bar at the Petwood Hotel

Watch a film at the Kinema in the Woods, still rear-projected

Walk the pinewoods and the site of the old spa baths

Thomas Hotchkin found iodine and bromine-rich water in a disused mine shaft on his land around 1834 and built a spa bath beside it, and a pine-wood town grew up around the cure. In the Second World War the RAF took over its hotels: 617 Squadron, the Dambusters, were based nearby and used the Petwood as their officers' mess, and the squadron's memorial stands in the village.

Woodhall Spa: Iodine Water and the Dambusters

Visit the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre at East Kirkby, and see the Lancaster bomber NX611 'Just Jane' taxi on open days

Take a guided hangar tour at the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight visitor centre at RAF Coningsby

Watch for the Memorial Flight's Spitfires and Hurricanes over the fens in the summer display season

Lincolnshire was Bomber County, its flat land covered with airfields in the Second World War. At East Kirkby, the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre keeps the Lancaster bomber NX611, Just Jane, and taxis her on open days. Down the road at RAF Coningsby, the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight keeps Spitfires and Hurricanes flying; its Lancaster is away at Duxford for a major service until 2027.

East Kirkby and Coningsby: Lancasters in Bomber County

See the rectory and the church at Somersby where Tennyson grew up

Look for the small stream Tennyson is said to have had in mind for The Brook

Walk the lanes and footpaths of the southern Wolds nearby

Alfred Tennyson was born at Somersby rectory in 1809, the fourth of twelve children, and the brook and the valleys around the hamlet are said to turn up in his poems, among them The Brook. The southern Wolds here are quiet, folded hills with small churches, and Gunby Hall, the brick house of 1700 that Tennyson is said to have called a haunt of ancient peace, stands to the south-east.

Somersby and the Tennyson Wolds

Walk a section of the Viking Way, the 147-mile path from Barton-upon-Humber to Oakham opened in 1976, near Tetford

Walk the Bluestone Heath Road, the ancient ridgeway along the top of the Wolds

Look out over the Wolds near Skendleby, where Neolithic farmers built the Giants' Hills long barrow

Walk Snipe Dales Country Park near Spilsby

The Lincolnshire Wolds are chalk hills in the flat county, walked on the Viking Way, the 147-mile path from Barton-upon-Humber to Oakham opened in 1976, and along the top runs the Bluestone Heath Road, an ancient ridgeway. Near Skendleby the Giants' Hills long barrow is a Neolithic burial mound, and Snipe Dales Country Park lies near Spilsby.

Lincolnshire Wolds: Viking Way, Bluestone Heath and Skendleby

Look out over the Fens and the Wash from the tower

See the Guildhall where the Pilgrims were tried in 1607, and the cells where tradition says they were held

Walk the Haven bank where the boats loaded

St Botolph's in Boston has one of the tallest medieval church towers in England at 81m — the Stump — and the flat Fens around it make it visible for miles; on a clear day it can be seen from Norfolk. The rebuilding began in 1309, and the town below was the port that sent the Pilgrim Fathers to their first attempted escape in 1607.

Boston: The Stump Above the Fens

Visit Lincoln Cathedral, begun in 1072 and, with its central spire until 1548, the tallest building in the world for over two centuries, and find the Lincoln Imp

Tour Lincoln Castle, walk its wall and see the Lincoln copy of Magna Carta of 1215

Walk up Steep Hill from The Strait in the lower town to the cathedral and Bailgate

See the Newport Arch, the Roman gateway in the north of the old city

Visit the International Bomber Command Centre on Canwick Hill, opened in 2018, with its spire and the Walls of Names

Lincoln Cathedral was begun in 1072, and with its central spire, until it fell in 1548, it was the tallest building in the world for more than two centuries; the Lincoln Imp is carved inside. Lincoln Castle, reached up Steep Hill, keeps one of the copies of Magna Carta of 1215, and the Newport Arch is a Roman gateway still in use. On Canwick Hill above the city, the International Bomber Command Centre opened in 2018 with its spire and the Walls of Names for the aircrew who died.

Lincoln: The Cathedral, the Castle and Magna Carta

Walk Louth, the Wolds market town, and look up at the 287ft spire of St James' Church, the tallest on any Anglican parish church

Walk Hubbard's Hills, the glacial valley on the edge of the town

Walk the Georgian streets and the Wednesday market

St James' at Louth carries the third tallest spire in the United Kingdom and the tallest on an Anglican parish church; work began in 1501 and finished in 1515, and it can be seen right across the Wolds. The town below it is Georgian brick and market squares, with the chalk grassland of the Wolds and the Hubbard's Hills valley on its edge.

Louth: The Tallest Spire on an Anglican Parish Church

Climb to the Cow and Calf rocks above the town

Find the Swastika Stone and the cup-and-ring carvings on the moor

Walk out to the Twelve Apostles stone circle

See White Wells, the 18th-century plunge bath on the moor

Ilkley became a fashionable spa town in the 19th century, with the Ben Rhydding Hydro built a mile east between 1843 and 1844. The moor above it carries the Cow and Calf rocks, more than 250 cup-and-ring marks and a carved swastika, and the Twelve Apostles stone circle raised about 4,500 years ago — and the folk song about it warns against going up there baht 'at.

Ilkley: The Moor, the Cow and Calf and the Victorian Cure

See the pump room and taste the sulphur water if it is running

Visit the Highland Museum of Childhood in the old station

Walk up to the Touchstone Maze above the village

Sulphurous springs found in the 18th century turned Strathpeffer into a Victorian spa resort, with a pavilion of 1880 built to entertain the visitors and a railway branch to bring them in. The pump room still stands, the old station now holds shops and the Highland Museum of Childhood, and the Rogie Falls and Ben Wyvis are on the doorstep.