County – NE Lincolnshire
Elevation - 117m
Date – 8 March 2023
Distance – 3.5km
Elevation Climbed - 51m
Status – 41st highest Metropolitan authority/94th highest LA
Driving back from High Stones, a blizzard set in on the Snake Pass, making me concerned for my next stop, the delightful seaside fishing village of Grimsby. I needn't have worried, as once past Doncaster the low altitude and sea air of the Wolds brought a rise in the temperature, and I realised I had a couple of hours spare, which meant...Top Time!
A quick look at the map suggested a 20 min diversion would find me at Wold Newton, the tiny village which was home to this Humberside authority's highest peak. The countryside was remarkably quiet and once past the last of the WW2 airfields, the rolling Wolds belied the popular perception of Lincolnshire as a flat area.
Wold Newton itself isn't much of a place - a string of houses along a main road, all pantiled in the Dutch fashion so common in eastern England - and at the end of the row of houses a footpath leads up through a field to the highest point. To my surprise there were views from there of the murky brown Humber, and even a trig point hidden in the corner of the field. Finches sang in the hedgerows against the grey sky, and a bench looked out over the expanse of land towards Cleethorpes and the sea.
I mooched back to the car after a pleasant circular walk and another Top ticked off the old list.
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