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- Grantham is an attractive and industrial market town that sits on the border of Lincolnshire and Nottingham. Being home to a number of Lincolnshire's incredibly picturesque historic houses, castles and buildings including Belton House and Belvoir Castle, it is well worth a visit and makes for an excellent day trip or weekend away.
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Jul 25, 2024 · Grantham is a great place for a day out if you like exploring English history, eating great local food and soaking up the charm of independent shops and markets. It probably isn’t at the top of your list for a weekend trip, but Grantham is one of Lincolnshire’s genuine undiscovered gems.
- St Wulfram’s Church
- Belton House
- Belton Park
- Woolsthorpe Manor
- Gravity Fields Festival
- Grantham Museum
- Belvoir Castle
- Wyndham Park
- Witham River
- Easton Walled Gardens
With the sixth highest spire in the country, St Wulfram’s Church is a parish church with the scale of a cathedral. The origins of this building are Saxon, but most of the stonework is from the 13th to the 16th centuries. There are traces of the Norman building around the nave, especially in the arcades of the north aisle. Head down to the crypt via...
The first of many stately homes within striking distance of Grantham, Belton House is often considered the archetypal English country house and is maintained by the National Trust. The architecture is in the opulent Restoration style, dating to the 1680s, and was refined with each generation as the resident Brownlow family rose in social status. Th...
In 1,300 acres, the park around Belton House is a day out in its own right. Some 750 acres of this land is designated a deer park, and you can see the best of it on a signposted 3.1-mile walking trail. On the route you’ll see interesting monuments like a crow-stepped Victorian conduit house and a memorial to Lord Alford commissioned in 1851 by his ...
Sir Isaac Newton was born at this modest yeoman’s farmstead nine miles south of Grantham in 1642. He came back in 1666 when Cambridge University was closed because of the plague, and in that time he conducted experiments that would change the course of science. It is even thought that Newton conceived his law of universal gravitation here after wat...
Newton’s legacy is celebrated every September with a town-wide festival for science, heritage and the arts. Each year the Gravity Fields Festival assembles a big-hitting lineup of leading scientists and contemporary artists. In 2018 there were talks by Professor Brian Cox and the UK’s first female astronaut, Helen Sharman. Over these five days ther...
Just the place to get to know Grantham’s most famous personalities, the Grantham Museum in the former town hall ensemble has in-depth exhibitions of Newton, Thatcher and lesser known figures like Edith Smith (d. 1924), the UK’s first policewoman with power of arrest. For Newton there’s a copy of Principia, his death mask, an interactive recreation ...
Over the boundary into Leicestershire, the Grade I-listed Belvoir Castle is the ancestral home of the Dukes of Rutland, who have been here since the 16th century. The magisterial Gothic Revival building here today is the fourth castle on the site and was built in the first years of the 19th century. The house, with battlements, towers and lancet wi...
On the Witham River and threaded by a waterside path, Wyndham Park has been awarded the Green Flag since 2012, which puts it among the best parks in the country. There are lots of amenities here for a hassle-free family afternoon in summer, like a water play facility, with fountains, spouts and a paddling pool, as well as conventional playgrounds, ...
You can take a very agreeable 1.8-mile walk along the east flank of Grantham’s town centre beside the Witham River. This path is laid with tarmac and has a cycle lane, starting in the south at Dysart Park and ending in Wyndham Park in the north. There are pedestrian bridges every now and again, and you’ll see St Wyndham’s 86-metre spire poking over...
The nearby village of Easton is the site of manor house belonging to the Cholmeley family. This property was damaged in the Second World War and had to be pulled down in the 1950s. The 12-acre walled gardens, more than 400 years in the making were also abandoned, before being rescued by the Cholmeleys in the 2000s and turned into one of the region’...
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Being home to a number of Lincolnshire's incredibly picturesque historic houses, castles and buildings including Belton House and Belvoir Castle, it is well worth a visit and makes for an excellent day trip or weekend away. Grantham began as a small Saxon village that grew into a market town during the 11th century.
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