What does Wolds land mean?

[Will 1594]

How far South do the Wold's come? We drove up to Holbeach yesterday to collect Mrs Fred's new spaniel, and we had a great day out looking at the landscape as we went, never having seen the fen land before, and it felt like being on holiday . Mrs Fred asked me how far away the Wolds were and when could we have a weekend away to look around further north.
Would the stone that everything is built from around Stamford equate to the Hamstone from Somerset way? To our soft southern eyes, it looked a bit harsher and some of the old buildings seemed to have suffered a lot of erosion.

Go through Boston either towards horn castle or spilsby and over to Louth via ulceby. Some of best Lincolnshire wolds and drop down the valley where blue bell pub is at belchford , John smith terrority. , then ludford tealby area is good farming country

 

[JCMaloney]

Historically my family farmed around Wadworth, Loversall, and around Doncaster. Mostly houses, racecourse, motorway and nature reserve now.

Small world, wife`s cousin lives in Loversall. Her brother in law farms down the road at Low Farm, Rakes Lane. Lots of big sheds appearing around that way these days.

 

[yellowbelly]

Mrs Fred asked me how far away the Wolds were and when could we have a weekend away to look around further north.

There are two limestone escarpments running roughly north-south up Lincolnshire. The one to the east is the Wolds, the one to the west is called the Cliff (north of Lincoln) and the Heath (south of Lincoln).......

 

[76masseyman]

There are two limestone escarpments running roughly north-south up Lincolnshire. The one to the east is the Wolds, the one to the west is called the Cliff (north of Lincoln) and the Heath (south of Lincoln).......View attachment 897145

Heath / Cliff.............it’s me, it’s Kathy, I’ve come home now.....

sorry, couldn’t resist that.

 

[Bogweevil]

Are not Wolds and Downs somthing the same .

Wolds are downs scraped nearly level by glaciers, the glaciers stopped on Salisbury Plain leaving some big rocks, they never reached the true downs, which is why the wilts, dorset, hants sussex, Kentish chalk ridges remain, but the true downs did get permafrost and associated freezing and thawing broke up the chalk allowing erosion that formed the downland coombes.

 

[Will 1594]

There are two limestone escarpments running roughly north-south up Lincolnshire. The one to the east is the Wolds, the one to the west is called the Cliff (north of Lincoln) and the Heath (south of Lincoln).......View attachment 897145

Yellow belly is it correct , that the water that comes up in the springs on the cliff land between Tesla and you , comes through the aquifers. From Derbyshire

 

[teslacoils]

And some of the most intelligent and good looking farmers that the world has known. We generally avoid leaving the low areas because everyone is jealous of us.

Tbh they welcomed us from Yorkshire with open arms to diversify the gene pool.

 

[teslacoils]

Wold land, cliff land, and heath land are all very different though.

 

[teslacoils]

Small world, wife`s cousin lives in Loversall. Her brother in law farms down the road at Low Farm, Rakes Lane. Lots of big sheds appearing around that way these days.

Not so small. Would have been pre-ww1 when we stopped there. If you know Potteric Carr nature reserve my 5x great grandfather was first to plough it after it was drained in the 1800s. Now it's all leisure, nature and distribution centres. Not that that's a bad thing - if Amazon are listening I can do them a good deal on this place before we welcome 3m from Hongkong to the new Freeport of Immingham. Aka New Hongkong.

 

[renewablejohn]

There are currently some decent winter wheat crops around Elsham, which says it all.

My dad used to work on the big estate in the area. At the time you always new if the land belonged to the estate as all the field gates and farmhouse cottage windows where painted in claret and blue paint.

 

[teslacoils]

My dad used to work on the big estate in the area. At the time you always new if the land belonged to the estate as all the field gates and farmhouse cottage windows where painted in claret and blue paint.

Field gates round here are still painted their owners' colours.

 

[Lowland1]

There are two limestone escarpments running roughly north-south up Lincolnshire. The one to the east is the Wolds, the one to the west is called the Cliff (north of Lincoln) and the Heath (south of Lincoln).......View attachment 897145

I opened my O level Geography exam to find an OS map of the area between Lincoln and Grantham the question was describe the area on the map either side of the A607 as I had travelled that road for the previous 5 years every weekend coming back from School it was the easiest exam I ever did I was able to describe the countryside in perfect detail I could have described the cropping over the last five years but thought that may have been a bit suspicious. If I hadn't just two hours to do the exam I might still be writing.

 

[renewablejohn]

Not so small. Would have been pre-ww1 when we stopped there. If you know Potteric Carr nature reserve my 5x great grandfather was first to plough it after it was drained in the 1800s. Now it's all leisure, nature and distribution centres. Not that that's a bad thing - if Amazon are listening I can do them a good deal on this place before we welcome 3m from Hongkong to the new Freeport of Immingham. Aka New Hongkong.

Open to offers on land for a few sky scrapers with a view of Immingham.

 

[Lowland1]

Tbh they welcomed us from Yorkshire with open arms to diversify the gene pool.

Wold land, cliff land, and heath land are all very different though.

My father diversified our genes by marrying someone from across the river. Kesteven and Lindsey are like different worlds. You shouldn't worry about coming from Yorkshire I am sure there are worse places though I can't think of any at present.
I think wold land has had greater glacial activity on it than Heath or Cliff hence it is steeper with valleys etc where as the cliff and heath are at the edge of that activity. We used to find a lot of marine fossils in Stone from Blankney and Metheringham quarries.

 

[teslacoils]

I went to a beet open day on the heath, where they were merrily lifting, with the fancy harvester mulching the tops into the tilth, and drilling tight behind. In December. Went home to the usual knee deep mud.

 

[Wolds Beef]

What a wonderful thread about our County! Born and Bred just South of Horncastle in the Bain valley. A river and Canal between us and some very good friends who went to the same YFC we had many a good do at a village hall in there village nipping across the valley home well oiled and picking the vehicle up in the morning once sober!! @Will 1594 How do you know Smith!! The description of the wolds finishing at the A158 is almost correct, the AONB does stop there but I am just the other side of the road. Yes, there is some good land but there are valleys cut by the ice long ago that can not be cropped, these valleys are the natural home for the Lincoln Red Cattle and in the Smith's case a large herd of AA. From certain points on my patch, I can see our beloved Cathedral, Boston Stump, The Hills of Norfolk across the Wash, Tattershall Castle and the Power Stations in the Trent Valley when it is backlit in the evening. @yellowbelly describes the county very well and remembers all we were taught at Riseholme!! I had to smile @Lowland1 and his exam paper. He will know exactly where I Farm as just across the Road is a farm looked after by a large Vegetable producing company!! They also have an AD plant. I have every type of soil on this farm including bog! I was told some of our springs come from Derbyshire. Also I know of 2 large stones, one in Ostlers Plantation near Woodhall Spa and 1 on the side of the road next to a field of mine. They both originate from Northumberland and this was confirmed by a Geology student many years ago. (his father was a local Bank Manager). Brought down by the ice that is why we have our deep valleys.
WB

 

[Wolds Beef]

Another thread on here is on about who you know or know of!! Interesting to read about and know of!! staring Sir Isaac Newtons face! Diversifying the Gene pool was easy, I went to the west of Glasgow!!
WB

 

[Drillman]

We do lots of work around the vale of York to Malton to Pickering, some boarding the Yorkshire wolds
A lowland farm is usually a wet sodden place with many dykes and hedges all to be maintained, antiquated drainage systems and wet farm tracks all needing repair, the land can be blue clay to blow away sand, some dry, some wet for a week after a shower.
Then we travel up to the wolds, good decent sized fields, sparse hedges that take no cutting, the odd dyke possibly that runs a trickle of water, farm tracks are just soil scraped off to a stone base, the free draining land spans for miles of 4 tonnes t acre o wheat, it looks to good to be true!
That’s how it looks from here in the wet puddle lowlands

Then there’s our bit of the wolds Where it’s that hard even metal fence posts won’t go in in places!

 

[Lincsman]

What a wonderful thread about our County! Born and Bred just South of Horncastle in the Bain valley. A river and Canal between us and some very good friends who went to the same YFC we had many a good do at a village hall in there village nipping across the valley home well oiled and picking the vehicle up in the morning once sober!! @Will 1594 How do you know Smith!! The description of the wolds finishing at the A158 is almost correct, the AONB does stop there but I am just the other side of the road. Yes, there is some good land but there are valleys cut by the ice long ago that can not be cropped, these valleys are the natural home for the Lincoln Red Cattle and in the Smith's case a large herd of AA. From certain points on my patch, I can see our beloved Cathedral, Boston Stump, The Hills of Norfolk across the Wash, Tattershall Castle and the Power Stations in the Trent Valley when it is backlit in the evening. @yellowbelly describes the county very well and remembers all we were taught at Riseholme!! I had to smile @Lowland1 and his exam paper. He will know exactly where I Farm as just across the Road is a farm looked after by a large Vegetable producing company!! They also have an AD plant. I have every type of soil on this farm including bog! I was told some of our springs come from Derbyshire. Also I know of 2 large stones, one in Ostlers Plantation near Woodhall Spa and 1 on the side of the road next to a field of mine. They both originate from Northumberland and this was confirmed by a Geology student many years ago. (his father was a local Bank Manager). Brought down by the ice that is why we have our deep valleys.
WB

We have few big boulders in the yard recovered from fields that came from Derbyshire.. apparently its the only place on the globe that has that type of rock.

 

[76masseyman]

Can’t get much more than the end of the Lincolnshire Woods than when you descend Keal Hill on the A16 heading towards Boston.
Pilgrim Hospital and St Botolphs Church, known as The Stump, are still nearly 12 miles away from, but easily visible.
Cracking views from your area @Wolds Beef . I believe it’s possible to see the Spalding power station chimneys when clear.