Lincolnshire - The Wolds
Ramblings
BBC
4.5 • 768 Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2011
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In the fifth of this series of listener's walks, Clare Blading sets out three people who live in Lincolnshire and share a passion for the Wolds. Listener, Mike Garrs, invited Clare to join him in the landscape that he loves and where he walks regularly with friends. They are joined by Pete Skipworth, who has traced his ancestry in the Lincolnshire Wolds back to the fourteenth century and who has also been walking the area for 30 years, and Louise Niekirk from the Lincolnshire Countryside Service which organises the annual Lincolnshire Walking Festival. In a walk which begins in the village of Tealby and passes through Walesby and the centuries-old Ramblers Church before arriving at Normanby-le-Wold, Clare discovers that Lincolnshire is not as flat as most people think as the path reaches the dizzy heights of around 500 feet with stunning views across the landscape.
Presenter: Clare Balding Producer: Helen Chetwynd.
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| 0:45.7 | at BBC.com.uk forward slash radio four. Today you can hear ramblings with Claire Balding. |
| 0:55.0 | Today on ramblings, I have come to Lincolnshire, northeast of Lincoln, to a village called Tealby. |
| 1:01.0 | And because churches are going to form punctuation marks, if you like, in the course of this walk, it made sense to start in a church. |
| 1:09.0 | And this is Tealby Church. |
| 1:12.8 | Now, I'm with three people who between them suggested this walk. |
| 1:15.7 | The three of you have never met, have you, Pete and Mike and Louise. |
| 1:19.1 | I do know Louise, but I've never met Mike. |
| 1:21.5 | He's a new friend that I've met in the world. |
| 1:25.3 | Well, Mike Gars, this is Pete Skitworth. |
| 1:27.7 | Yes, to meet you. Hello, Pete. And Louise Neekirk, can you please to meet you, Mike? |
| 1:31.9 | Now, who suggested the route? The theme for this series was listeners suggestions. |
| 1:35.9 | Was it me? Yes, it's all my fault, is it? So where are we going, Mike? |
| 1:39.2 | Yes, well, we're following the Viking Way from Thielby, and then we go to Walesby. |
| 1:45.6 | We call in at the Rambler's Church there and then Norman Billy Wold, which is Lincolnshire's highest village. |
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