HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS
IN
LINCOLNSHIRE
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTORY
In dealing with a county which measures seventy-five miles
by forty-five, it will be best to assume that the tourist has either
some form of "cycle" or, better still, a motor car. The railway
helps one less in this than in most counties, as it naturally
runs on the flat and unpicturesque portions, and also skirts the
boundaries, and seldom attempts to pierce into the heart of
the Wolds. Probably it would not be much good to the tourist
if it did, as he would have to spend much of his time in tunnels
which always come where there should be most to see, as on
the Louth and Lincoln line between Withcal and South Willingham.
As it is, the only bit of railway by which a person
could gather that Lincolnshire was anything but an ugly county
is that between Lincoln and Grantham.
But that it is a county with a great deal of beauty will be, I am sure, admitted by those who follow up the routes described in the following pages. They will find that it is a county famous for wide views, for wonderful sunsets, for hills and picturesque hollows; and full, too, of the human interest which clings round old buildings, and the uplifting pleasure which its many splendid specimens of architecture have power to bestow.
