Lincolnshire Showground

This was the First World War RFC airfield of Brattleby, which returned to farmland in peacetime, then was re-activated in the 1930s. Early pilots used the line of Ermine Street to find their way home. Scampton was among the bomber bases - one famous unit was 617 Squadron, known as the "Dambusters" for their bouncing-bomb raid on the Ruhr valley dams in 1943. RAF Scampton is no longer active as an RAF base and has now been converted to a heritage site.

Comprehensive leisure centre with gym, pool and athletics track.

The Lincoln Astronomical Society has public viewing nights in winter. In summer the evening sky is too bright.

Fascinating museum of the area's agricultural, industrial and social history from 1750, housed in a Victorian militia barracks.

The 'east gate' of the Roman city of Lindum Colonia - a fragment of the 3rd century wall and gatetower are still visible

There's been a fort here since Roman times and probably earlier, but the stone castle was begun in 1068 by William the Conqueror. It has a large enclosure within its curtain walls, which from the 18th century was the obvious place to site a court house, jail and gibbet. So it feels Victorian or Georgian, though it holds an original copy of Magna Carta, and its most striking features are the jail museum and apparatus of punishment. The Crown Court is still in use.