A Walk For All Ages | Hiking in the Lincolnshire Wolds | South Thoresby | Discovering Local History
A Walk For All Ages | Hiking in the Lincolnshire Wolds | South Thoresby | Discovering Local History
This walk is suitable for all the family!
Arctic Monkeys? Founder of Harvard? Marcus Aurelius, Nero and Hadrian? Discoveries made on Hike! Discovering Local History | Family Friendly Walks | Lincolnshire Churches
I met up with a good friend and we set off for a hike in the Lincolnshire Wolds. We started at South Thoresby, the home of Chapel Studios where the Arctic Monkeys recorded their debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not. It has also been used by various artists such as Kaiser Chiefs, Paul Weller, Editors, Del Amitri, Ocean Colour Scene, Thunder, Shed Seven, Machine Head, The Darkness, Dodgy and Wet Wet Wet. It is currently up for sale for 1.7 million!
The route then led to Belleau, a small hamlet in Lincolnshire with a big history. It was once the home of Sir Henry Vane the Younger, a former Parliamentarian, Governor of Massachusetts and one of the original founders of Harvard University. He was eventually beheaded by Charles II who deemed him to be a threat to his recently reinstated monarchy.
The hike then continues to Swaby where a hoard of Roman coins were unearthed containing the heads of Marcus Aurelius, Nero and Hadrian, some of which are in the British Museum.
Then finally before the walk concludes, we explore the ruins of the Church of St Andrew in the old medieval village of Calceby. It was a great hike and one I would thoroughly recommend.
00:00 Introduction
00:53 Chapel Studios
02:34 St Andrews, South Thoresby
03:30 The Hike Begins
04:14 Route and OS Map
05:57 Belleau
09:06 The Hike Continues
10:37 Swaby
12:02 Ruined Church at Calceby
Useful links are below.
Link for walking maps and information
https://www.lincswolds.org.uk/exploring/walking/
https://www.instagram.com/hiking.for.health/
https://www.chapelstudios.com/
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Brilliant. Thought my bro would be incognito!! Comma butterfly. Did you study history or geography at Uni Gav? Lifelong learning though- of course 🙂
Thoroughly enjoyed watching your walk through my home patch! Thank you.
Now that my young dog is old enough for a decent walk, I must lace up my walking boots and do the walk to Swaby again…perhaps on a day when the sun comes out to play.
Love it dude a lovely video and just love all the knowledge you throw into your videos and so nice you got to do the walk with a childhood friend.
What a lovely walk, and beautiful weather for it too. Thanks for taking us all along with you, Gav 😊
You picked a lovely day for it Gav, you seem to have a knack at choosing good weather!
Smashing vid
Beautiful day for a walk, and another interesting route. The Wolds certainly have plenty to offer the walker.