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The road between Woodys Top Youth Hostel and Burwell, near Louth. Taken June 2004
©John Hope
Dist:0.3km<br/>View south towards Ruckland Hill.
©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:0.3km<br/>The hostel at Woody's Top is blessed with a very useful rural bus service from Louth to Horncastle, which stops outside the hostel several times a day. It's especially useful for volunteer wardens with no cars!
©John Martin
Dist:0.3km<br/>The Greenwich Meridian passes through this square.
©Jonathan Thacker
Dist:0.3km<br/>Peter Grant was the so-called 'convener' of this attractive hostel near Ruckland, Lincolnshire. His dedication to the place over at least 20 years is marked by this tablet. He oversaw numerous improvements to the hostel.
©John Martin
Dist:0.3km<br/>Woody's Top Youth Hostel, on the Lincolnshire Wolds, was opened in 1948. It replaced Farforth hostel, just over the fields. Its name derives from "Mr Wood's Top Barn", which is about all it was when the YHA took it on. For many years it was extremely spartan, water being brought up a (very steep) hill in a wheeled chariot, and toilets being of the agricultural variety. Nowadays Woody's Top is a favourite with all types of hosteller; it has retained its simplicity and quiet, but is extremely comfortable and well-appointed, with small rooms ideally suited to families. It's well worth a diversion into a beautiful, if relatively little known, part of England.
©John Martin
Dist:0.3km<br/>Woody's Top is in an elevated position, with stunning views of the Lincolnshire Wolds all around.
©John Martin
Dist:0.4km<br/>Small wolds church by W.Scorer in 1885
©Richard Croft
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©Alan Heardman
Dist:0.5km<br/>Tiny church by W.Scorer in 1885
©Richard Croft
Dist:0.5km<br/>Ruckland Church St Olave Built in 1855 by William Scorer. Rose window in the west wall. The roof is cantilevered out over the west wall to form a bellcote.
©trevor willis
Dist:0.5km<br/>Cut bench mark on the west face, with another rejected one below perhaps? See http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm35642 for details.
©Brian Westlake
Dist:0.5km<br/>Lincolnshire's Smallest Church.
©Bob Danylec
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©trevor willis
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©Alan Heardman

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