Lincolnshire is England's second-largest county-and one of the
least well-known. Yet its understated chronicles, unfashionable
towns and undervalued countryside conceal fascinating stories, and
unique landscapes: its Wolds are lonely and beautiful, its towns
characterful; its marshlands and dynamic coast are metaphors of
constant change. From plesiosaurs to Puritans, medieval ghosts to
eighteenth-century explorers, poets to politicians, and Vikings to
Brexit, this marginal county is central to England's identity.
Canute, Henry IV, John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford all called
Lincolnshire home. So did saints, world-famed churchmen and
reformers-Etheldreda, Gilbert, Guthlac and Hugh, Robert
Grosseteste, John Wycliffe, John Cotton, John Foxe and John
Wesley-as well as Isaac Newton, Joseph Banks, John Harrison and
George Boole. Lincolnshire explorers went everywhere: John Smith to
Jamestown, George Bass and Matthew Flinders to Australia, and John
Franklin to a bitter death in the Arctic. Artists and writers have
been inspired-including Byrd, Taverner, Stukeley, Stubbs, Eliot and
Tennyson-while Thatcher wrought neo-liberalism. Extraordinary
architecture testifies to centuries of both settlement and unrest,
from Saxon towers to sky-piercing spires; evocative ruined abbeys
to the wonder of the Cathedral. And in between is always the
little-known land itself-an epitome of England, awaiting discovery.
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