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Local Attractions / Places to Visit

Barton Waters' Edge Country Park
Broadbent Theatre, Wickenby
Caistor Lincolnshire - A Visitors Guide to Caistor
Caistor Market every Saturday
Caistor Walkabout Leaflet Side1 (PDF)
Caistor Walkabout Leaflet Side2 (PDF)
Caistor - Walk around the town
Cadwell Park Motor Circuit
Cleethorpes
Crocosmia Garden, Caistor
Dambusters Inn, Scampton
Far Ings National Nature Reserve, Barton
Fern Nursery, Binbrook, LN8 6DH
Fonaby Stone, Caistor, Lincolnshire
Gainsborough Old Hall
Garden House, Saxby, LN8 2DQ
Golth Gardens, A157 Near Wragby, LN8 5LF
Gunby Hall, nr Spilsby, Lincolnshire PE23 5SS
Hall Farm Nursery and Gardens, Harpswell, DN21 5UU
Hall Farm Park, South Kelsey
Hubbards Hills, Louth
Humber Bridge
Lincoln Medieval Bishops' Palace
Lincoln Cathedral
Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust
Lincolnshire Wolds Railway, Ludborough Station
Lincolnshire History & Archaelogical Society
Lincolnshire Wolds
Maps to Treasure Tea Room, Walesby House Farm - 01673 838508
Market Rasen Race Course
Mayflower Wood, South Killingholme
Meridian Point Craft Centre, Cleethorpes - Open 1030 to 1630 hrs
Monksthorpe Chapel, nr Spilsby, Lincolnshire PE23 5PP
National Fishing Heritage Centre, Grimsby
Normanby Hall, Scunthorpe
Pelhams Pillar, Caistor Top
Plowright Theatre, Scunthorpe
Rope Walk, Barton-upon-Humber
RAF Scampton Museum (Tel: 01522 879137)
Sibsey Trader Windmill, Sibsey, Boston
Snipedales Nature Reserve
Somersby, Spilsby, Lincs
Stockwith Mill, Spilsby, Lincs
Theatre Royal, Lincoln
Trolley Bus Museum, Sandtoft, Nr Scunthorpe.
Viking Way, Barton-upon-Humber to Oakham
Weelsby Woods, Grimsby
Whitegates Cottage, Gunby, Lincoln
Wolds Cycle Tours, Walesby, Near Maket Rasen, Lincs
Woodside Wildlife and Falconry Park, Near Langworth
Where to Go, Visit Lincolnshire

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Caistor in the Lincolnshire Wolds

Caistor is an attractive Georgian market town with a history dating back to Roman times and beyond. It is unique in it's architecture and location and is regularly described by experts as a 'jewel'. It has 56 Grade II listed buildings, two Scheduled Ancient Monuments and over 160 significant archaeological finds. In numerical terms, the number of listed buildings makes Caistor the most important Conservation Area in West Lindsey. It is ideally situated for residents and business alike with easy access to the whole of the North Lincolnshire area being located on the north western edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds, in an Area of Great Landscape Value (AGLV) and adjacent to an area of outstanding natural beauty (AONB), on the Viking Way just off the A46 between Lincoln and Grimsby at the A46 / A1084 / A1173 / B1225 Junction. Humberside International Airport is only 7.5 miles away, M180: 9 miles, Port of Immingham: 12 miles, Grimsby: 13 miles, Scunthorpe: 17 miles, Lincoln: 25 miles, Hull: 26 miles, M18: 35 miles, M62: 42 miles, A1(M): 46 miles, M1: 58 miles.

The original Roman wall can be seen on the southern boundary of the Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul which dates back to saxon times.

The town has 3 excellent schools: Caistor Yarborough, Caistor C of E & Methodist Primary School and Caistor Grammar School founded in 1631 which is one of the most highly respected in the country.

The original town was ravaged by fire in 1681 and the present buildings in the town centre date from that time. The Sessions House previously occupied by the WRVS was built in 1662 and was one of the few buildings which survived the fire. The town centre consists of a street pattern based on a series of interconnecting squares; Market Place, Butter Market, Cornhill and Horse Market.

The largest sheep fairs in England were held in Caistor in 1858 when 60,000 sheep were sold.

An Act of Parliament in 1793 authorised the construction of the Caistor Canal for exporting the surplus agricultural produce of North Lincolnshire. The canal ran from the New River Ancholme near Creampoke in Kelsey Carrs (4 miles south of Brigg) in an easterly direction to Moortown (3 miles west of Caistor). It is 4 miles long and has 6 locks. The canal never reached Caistor but was opened about 1800. It was not used after 1855 and was officially abandoned in 1936. Navigation Lane which was to be the route of the canal is now a road which serves a number of housing developments to the West of the town.

Caistor was for many years the administrative centre for the whole North Lincolnshire area and was head of a rural district and county court district and also a petty sessional division, instituted in 1890. All births, deaths and marriages for the Great Grimsby, Caistor and Market Rasen Districts were registered here until 1936. The Registrar still carries out that function for the Caistor area from their office in South Dale.

Caistor Rural District Council had it's offices at 19 South Street before it moved to the purpose built offices in South Dale where it remained until local government re-organisation in 1974 when it became West Lindsey District Council (WLDC) and it's headquarters moved to Gainsborough, some 27 miles away. The Magistrates Court Service used the premises at 19 South Street until it's closure in 2003. Lincolnshire County Council have converted the building in to a Multi-Use Centre and offices, which opened on 7th October 2006.

During the second world war from 1940 - 45, Caistor was an RAF base firstly being used by 264 Squadron flying Defiant night-fighters and later undertook a training role under the control of the RAF Flying College at Cranwell. The station was returned to agricultural use in 1945 but was used again by the RAF between 1959 and 1963 in the role of a Thor missile base. Today the site is once more used for agriculture.

The town has a population of 2,700. Market day is Saturday and early closing day is Wednesday although many shops do not adhere to this any more.

The Lincolnshire Wolds