Elton

Sibson Lake

Water Newton · 2.5 miles

Close to historic Stamford, Wansford and Peterborough. A short walk from the Nene Valley Railway, combining floating eco-retreats,safe & secure leisure moorings on a beautiful stretch of the Nene. The site was excavated and opened to the river 12/08/2018.

John Clare's grave

Helpston · 7.5 miles

The children of John Clare Primary School annually place 'midsummer cushions' around the grave. These are a Northamptonshire tradition recorded by Clare: a rectangle of greensward with summer flowers pushed into it.

The Stamford Spa

Wothorpe · 8.7 miles

Former source of mineralised water. Round stone basin with stone lid. A good history is "Stamford Spa" (2017). YouTube video, added by erasedculture [Online]. Available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaSI-DhD4Fc (Accessed 2020-10-26)

Parish Church of St Mary

Woolley · 12 miles

Grade II Listed. Parish church now ruinous. Surviving ruined walls of west tower and doorway late C14, south nave wall and blocked doorway, south aisle wall and part of jamb to south doorway and buttresses and wall of south transept c.1300; the south tran

Eleanor Cross

Geddington · 14 miles

Eleanor Cross: one of a series of twelve stone monuments topped with crosses erected between 1291 and about 1295 in England from Lincoln to Westminster. Ordered by Edward 1 in memory of his wife, Eleanor of Castile, who died in November 1290.

Bourne Castle

Bourne · 16 miles

Bourne Castle was a Norman motte and double bailey castle. It was destroyed after being used by Oliver Cromwell's troops in 1645, and a farmhouse was built on its site