Welcome to Visit Skirbeck Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Skirbeck
Visit Skirbeck places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Skirbeck places to visit. A unique way to experience Skirbeck’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Skirbeck as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Skirbeck Walkfo Preview Skirbeck is a long v-shaped formation wrapped around the south and east side of Boston parish. It has been incorporated into the Borough of Boston since 1932. It is in the Pilgrim ward of the Boston Borough Council. When you visit Skirbeck, Walkfo brings Skirbeck places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Skirbeck Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Skirbeck
Visit Skirbeck – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 19 audio plaques & Skirbeck places for you to explore in the Skirbeck area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Skirbeck places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Skirbeck history
Skirbeck appears in two entries in the Domesday Book of 1086, when it was recorded as consisting of a total of 42 households and had two churches and two fisheries. The name originates from the words “skirn” and “bekkr” meaning “clear stream” The Grade II* listed Hussey Tower was a 14- and 15th-century brick tower with an octagonal turret, originally known as Benyington Tower.
Why visit Skirbeck with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Skirbeck places with Walkfo Skirbeck to hear history at Skirbeck’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Skirbeck has 19 places to visit in our interactive Skirbeck map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Skirbeck, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Skirbeck places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Skirbeck & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Skirbeck tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Skirbeck
Best Skirbeck places to visit
Skirbeck has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Skirbeck’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Skirbeck’s information audio spots:
Pilgrim Hospital Pilgrim Hospital is a hospital in the east of Lincolnshire on the A16, north of the town of Boston near the mini-roundabout with the A52. It is situated virtually on the Greenwich Meridian and adjacent to Boston High School. Lincolnshire is the county’s second largest hospital after Lincoln County Hospital.
Maud Foster Windmill Maud Foster Windmill is one of the largest operating windmills in England being 80 feet (24.38 m) tall to the cap ball. The mill was built in 1819 for Isaac and Thomas Reckitt of Wainfleet.
Blackfriars Theatre and Arts Centre Blackfriars Theatre and Arts Centre is a theatre and community centre situated in Boston, Lincolnshire. The building is a remaining part of a mediaeval friary.
Boston Guildhall Boston Guildhall is a former municipal building in Boston, Lincolnshire. It currently serves as a local museum and also as a venue for civil ceremonies and private functions.
Witham Way Country Park Witham Way Country Park is a country park in Boston, Lincolnshire, England. It is located on the outskirts of Boston and is located in the city centre.
Fishtoft Fishtoft is one of eighteen civil parishes which, together with Boston, form the Borough of Boston in the county of Lincolnshire, England. Local government has been arranged in this way since the reorganization of 1 April 1974, which resulted from the Local Government Act 1972. This parish forms an electoral ward in itself. Hitherto, the parish had formed part of Boston Rural District, in the Parts of Holland. Holland was one of the three divisions (formally known as parts) of the traditional county of Lincolnshire. Since the Local Government Act of 1888, Holland had been in most respects, a county in itself. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 6,835. The origin of the place-name is from the Old Norse word toft meaning a building site or a curtilage. The addition of Fish in the 15th century may be a family name or may indicate a connection with fishing. The place-name appears as Toft in the Domesday Book of 1086 and as Fishtoft in 1416. The parish lies along the north-east side of The Haven and accommodates the Pilgrim Fathers Memorial at Scotia Creek. Fishtoft comprises three aspects – open countryside, the village of Fishtoft, and suburban overspill from Boston. The fields along Burton Croft Road are bounded by dykes which are a home to water voles (an endangered species in the United Kingdom – Fishtoft is one of only 181 sites where voles can still be found). Fishtoft has a school, an Anglican church, a shop (at Hawthorn Tree Corner), and football and cricket clubs. The parish church is dedicated to the Saxon saint St Guthlac. The stonework contains traces of Norman work. There is a reference to the church in the Domesday Book. The 18th-century Reading Room, a red brick building just off Rectory Close, is now a private house – it was for many decades used as a centre of learning and education. The historic centre of the village was formerly an island in the tidal marshes – one of a series of islands around the coast of The Wash (each one marked by a medieval church). The parishes along the coast of the Wash had no eastern boundaries, and were continually expanding as new land was reclaimed from the tidal marshes. The marshes produced methane gas which spontaneously ignited to produce flares, giving rise to the belief that they were haunted by spirits and that the new land needed cleansing before it was safe to use. This may account for the veneration of St Guthlac at Fishtoft, the saint being renowned for driving out devils; a medieval statue of St Guthlac can be seen high up on the tower of the Fishtoft parish church, and formerly held the whip with which he cleansed the land of evil spirits. The statue of St Guthlac set into the west tower is of considerable interest. Nikolaus Pevsner, in his volume on Lincolnshire (Buildings of England series) says that it is older than the fabric of the tower. It is possible that this is the original statue of the Guthlac cult, and would have been located inside the chancel. As well as the parish church of St Guthlac there was a priory “cell” (or small religious house) on the site of what is now Stoke Priory house on the corner of Gaysfield Road; some remains of the priory cell could be seen in the garden of the house until recently. There was also a small medieval wayside chapel on the western side of Church Green Road, the site indicated by a significant elevation of ground just north of the bungalow opposite The Grange. In addition, the ground at the corner of Clampgate Road and Burton Croft Road, in what is now an open field, formerly held a substantial medieval building, possibly a manor house, called Panels (or Panals) which included a chapel. The arrangement of religious buildings in medieval Fishtoft has given rise to speculation that the village may have been the centre of a cult of St Guthlac based on what is now the parish church, the monks of the priory cell helping to minister to the cult, and the wayside chapel in Church Green Road acting as a “slipper chapel” for pilgrims approaching the village along the permanent road from Boston. The feast of St Guthlac is held on 11 April. Some evidence of a Roman settlement has been found in the area. There was also an important Anglo-Saxon settlement in the area, confirmed by an excavation on what is now Saxon Gardens. At one stage there was a separate hamlet in the parish called Fenne, in the area that later contained the Ball House Inn, Rochford Tower and Hawthorn Tree Corner. This area formed almost a separate community in the 1950s with its own community hall. An important feature of the parish is the Hobhole Drain, constructed in the 19th century for land drainage purposes, which enters the River Witham near the Pilgrim Fathers Memorial. The water tower that formerly stood at the end of Cut End Road has recently been demolished – it was an exact copy of the water tower that still stands in Sutterton.
Pilgrim Fathers Memorial The Pilgrim Fathers Memorial is located on the north bank of The Haven at the site of the former Scotia Creek, Fishtoft, seaward of Boston in Lincolnshire. It commemorates the attempt at finding religious freedom in September, 1607 by the Scrooby Congregation, a group of English Separatist Protestants who left for Holland.
St Botolph’s Church, Boston St Botolph’s Church is a parish church in Boston, Lincolnshire. Its tower, 266 feet 9 inches (81.31 m) tall, has been nicknamed the “Boston Stump” since its construction.
Wyberton Wyberton is one of eighteen parishes which, together with Boston, form the Borough of Boston. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 3,747. It lies just south-west of Boston, and on the B1397 – the former A16 London Road.
Visit Skirbeck plaques
0 plaques hereSkirbeck has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Skirbeck plaques audio map when visiting. Plaques like National Heritage’s “Blue Plaques” provide visual geo-markers to highlight points-of-interest at the places where they happened – and Walkfo’s AI has researched additional, deeper content when you visit Skirbeck using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Skirbeck plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.
Experience Skirbeck audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Skirbeck allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Skirbeck’s 19 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Skirbeck freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Skirbeck Map App
Our visit Skirbeck map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Skirbeck & surrounding areas using the Walkfo digital audio tour guide app. Each spot has plaque, building, street or area information on history, culture or tourism.
You can set your Walkfo’s Skirbeck tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Skirbeck centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Skirbeck area at LONG:-0.01, LAT:52.97.
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Things to do & visit in Skirbeck / surrounding areas
● Pilgrim Hospital ● Maud Foster Windmill ● Boston Priory ● Blackfriars Theatre and Arts Centre ● Boston Guildhall ● Boston, Lincolnshire ● Skirbeck ● Endeavour FM ● Witham Way Country Park ● Boston Town F.C. ● River Witham ● Black Sluice ● Boston United F.C. ● Fishtoft ● Pilgrim Fathers Memorial ● Boston Rural District ● St Botolph’s Church, Boston ● Wyberton ● Freiston
Getting to / around Skirbeck – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Skirbeck using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Skirbeck places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Skirbeck Public Transport Stations
Skirbeck Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Boston railway station
York Street
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Local Skirbeck historians & Skirbeck tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Skirbeck? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Skirbeck’s places, attractions & landmarks ability to create their own unique outdoor audio museums & using our simple & easy to use Walkfo Creator. – Creating a new audio experience for your Skirbeck place is free* and quick (15+ minutes if you prepare text content) to use, with Walkfo Creator doing the hard work of generating AI audio files for geo-spots from the text you provide with a simply click on a map. – The 100 Amazing Skirbeck Places is just one example of an outdoor museum created using Walkfo Creator (pictured to the left) for people to safely explore during Covid-19 times whilst visiting a city. Our tool is open to tourism organisations, travel destinations & National Trust locations to create their own audio walks to offer free when people visit Skirbeck destinations. – Walkfo itself is looking to partner with websites offering things-to-do / what’s on events listings to enhance the content of our ‘visit-Skirbeck’ web pages (for example: www.visitSkirbeck.com). If you are interested in partnering, please contact us to discuss options.
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