South Lincolnshire Walking Festival 2019

28 September to 27 October 2019

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Save the date!

SLWF save the date 2016

Yes it’s true! We’re back again this autumn with more fantastic walks in North Kesteven, South Kesteven, Boston and South Holland each Friday, Saturday and Sunday between 24th September and 30th October.

Our pilot festival in 2015 was a huge success attracting over 1400 walkers (and dogs!) of all ages on over 70 walks. If you want to keep up to date with what’s happening you can sign up for updates on the home page and if you want to lead a walk please drop us a line to slwf@heritagelincolnshire.org – we’d love to hear from you!

In the meantime don’t forget our sister festival, the Lincolnshire Wolds Walking Festival that starts on 21st May.

“Launching from the pretty village of Donington-on-Bain we can promise 16 days of really good walking in and around the Lincolnshire Wolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, until our festival finale at Gunby Estate, Hall and Gardens National Trust property on 5 June.We’ve got 114 great walks in the pipeline for this year’s festival, ranging from energetic day-long rambles to gentle strolls, plus lots of activities to involve all the family. Our event is 12 years old this year, but we’ve still got new and interesting walks to offer, as well as some old favourites.

Access for Everyone is a key theme in 2016 and we’re delighted that, along with a dementia-friendly walk, some of our events will be especially accessible for people using mobility aids. Local company TerrainHopper will even be offering free tasters of their fabulous all-terrain mobility vehicles.

Lincolnshire’s long-distance footpath, the Viking Way, reaches its 40th anniversary in 2016 and we’ll be celebrating with over 30 walks during the festival. If you like a real challenge then why not sign up to take part in the Lincs Wolds Way, a 75-mile circular walk around the Wolds, in six day-long linear sections. We provide the transport so you can do the walking!

There are plenty of evening events so you can fit in a walk after the day-job, and two Night Walks, back after popular demand in 2015. For families why not plan to join Louth District Scouts and experience Orienteering, or visit Snipe Dales Country Park for a family day with Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust. The festival brochure will be available to download or pick up from early March.”

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Press release: Step forward to lead a walk in the first South Lincolnshire Walking Festival

South Lincolnshire Walking Festival

Heritage Lincolnshire

The Old School

Cameron Street

Heckington

Lincolnshire NG34 9RW

 

Tel 01529 461499

Email slwf@lincsheritage.org

Facebook www.facebook.com/southlincswalkingfestival

Twitter www.twitter.com/SthLincWalkFest

 

Contact: Beverley Gormley – Cultural Events Officer

 

Step forward to lead a walk in the first South Lincolnshire Walking Festival

 

Heritage Lincolnshire, a charitable trust based in Heckington, is urging organisations and businesses to volunteer to lead walks in the first ever South Lincolnshire Walking Festival.

 

The brand new walking festival will take place between 25th September and 31st October this year and will feature free guided walks in North & South Kesteven, Boston and South Holland. There are already around 30 different walks lined up so far, led by organisations such as the Ramblers, Walking for Health groups, Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust, the Forestry Commission and the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology but more are needed to help attract visitors to the south of the county.

 

Beverley Gormley, Heritage Lincolnshire’s Cultural Events Officer, said “The South Lincolnshire Walking Festival is creating a real buzz in this part of the county! North & South Kesteven, Boston and South Holland are jam packed with heritage and history and we want to help show off those hidden gems to local people and visitors while helping to boost the local economy. This is our chance to put this part of Lincolnshire firmly on the walking festival map.

 

South Lincolnshire has a varied landscape that has witnessed Bronze Age burials, Iron Age mints, roman forts, the Knights Templar, castles and abbeys but the festival isn’t only for history lovers! Whether you want to roam with Ramblers, have an adventure with your kids, get snapping on a photography foray or get fit on a health trail, there’s something for everyone. The walks will take place on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays so that those who work or want to involve the family don’t miss out. Anyone who’s interested should go to www.southlincswalking.com or our Facebook or Twitter pages to find out more.”

 

Heritage Lincolnshire also organises the successful Lincolnshire Wolds Walking Festival in partnership with the Wolds Countryside Service and is keen to promote Lincolnshire’s heritage to walkers. If you or your organisation are interested in leading a walk, your business would like a walk to start or finish at their premises, or you would like your organisation to be featured in the brochure please get in touch by email at slwf@lincsheritage.org, phone 01529 461499 before 23 February 2015.

 

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NOTES FOR EDITORS

 

The Heritage Trust of Lincolnshire is a charity, established in 1991, whose activities ensure that the special character and significance of Lincolnshire’s heritage is understood, valued, conserved and celebrated for the benefit of local people, visitors and future generations.

 

The Trust is supported by County and District Councils, national heritage bodies, through commercial activities and sponsorship. We welcome donations [including gift aid] and legacies.

 

The Trust’s key objectives are to:

 

  • Provide high quality learning and volunteering activities which attract a diverse audience and raise awareness of Lincolnshire’s heritage.
  • Increase participation in heritage activities through community engagement.
  • Develop and deliver conservation projects that secure investment for Lincolnshire and contribute to economic regeneration.
  • Undertake archaeological fieldwork and research that advances our understanding of Lincolnshire’s historic environment.


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Get involved!

Love walking in south Lincolnshire? Want to shout about it to the rest of the world? Go on, we know you’re tempted…

We’ve been really pleased with the number of walk leaders who’ve already registered to lead walks during the festival but we need more! If you (or someone you know) are interested in leading a walk during the festival please fill in this 2015 walk submission form and return it to us at slwf@lincsheritage.org or by post to the address on the right of this page —>

We’ve also put together some slwf helpful hints for walk submission form that you might find helpful.

Don’t worry if you’re walk straddles the border between Lincolnshire and its neighbouring counties, we want to include as much variety as possible!

Beverley

Cultural Events Officer


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If you build it, they will come…

Organising a walking festival is no easy task. It’s a fascinating, rewarding task, but it definitely doesn’t fall into the ‘easy’ category. We want to ensure that South Lincolnshire Walking Festival appears on every walker’s calendar next year as the region has so much to offer!

There’s a lot to think of, organisations to get on board, funding to find, routes to work out, ideas to develop…the list goes on. But perhaps one of the more challenging misconceptions to overcome is the opinion of many that Lincolnshire (apart from the Wolds) isn’t generally thought of as a ‘walker’s landscape’. Many people think that the whole of Lincolnshire is flat – yes the fens toward Norfolk are pretty flat with big, gorgeous skies that the Cloud Appreciation Society would love and huge cathedral-like churches reflecting the wealth of a bygone era, but south Lincolnshire has a surprisingly varied landscape.

If you ever have the good fortune to be travelling from Newark to Sleaford you’ll see ahead of you a ridge that stretches from north of Lincoln (Lincoln Cathedral towers above it) down to Grantham. This is known as the ‘Lincolnshire Cliff’, formed of jurassic limestone and dotted with pretty little villages. The Viking Way follows its route and there are some fantastic views to be had looking towards Rutland, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and the Lincolnshire Wolds and Fens.

The Cliff gives way to some lovely rolling countryside filled with history and we aim to showcase some of this during the course of the festival. The Knights Templar built one of the wealthiest preceptories in Britain here (yes, there will be a walk from Temple Bruer), the Romans built a fort near Ancaster, Ralph Cromwell who was Lord Treasurer of England built a castle here – south Lincolnshire is bursting at the seams with heritage and culture!

So don’t miss out, come and join us for this free festival between 25 September and 31 October 2015 and let us show you some of Lincolnshire’s hidden historical gems, walkers’ ways and havens for nature. Add it to your diary now!

Beverley

Heritage Lincolnshire Cultural Events Officer