Lincolnshire

This eastern county offers on one side the tranquillity, the history, and the natural beauty of the Lincolnshire Wolds, poachers country its called, and on the other side you have the largest concentration of holiday caravan accommodation of any English county, known as the funcoast.

The Lincolnshire Wolds, designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in 1973, has some of the highest ground in Eastern England. Having been moulded this way over thousands of years it now offers us some of the most wonderful scenic views, with rolling hills and intimate valleys, of anywhere in England. Nature reserves now protect the many varieties of birds, flowers, plants, trees and wildlife that is abundant throughout the 6,000 square kilometres of the county.

On your journey through or around the Wolds, whether walking, cycling or by car take the opportunity to stop off and visit some of the traditional market towns, villages and hamlets. Here you will find wonderful architecture, windmills and watermills, history and heritage, traditional pubs serving good food, open-air markets, country parks and of course a warm Lincolnshire welcome. Lets not forget the National Trust properties in and around the county, the historical Lincoln Cathedral, once the tallest building in the world, and the unforgettable  Lincoln Castle, which houses a copy of the Magna Carta, to mention just a couple.

Some of the famous people that were born in the county include Alfred Lord Tennyson,  Sir Isaac Newton, Sir John Franklin and Margaret Thatcher, Britain's first woman Prime Minister.  

Skegness

Sir Billy Butlin escalated, in the 1930`s, what was the popular, middle class, holiday retreat of Skegness, established in the mid 1800`s, into the east coast mecca for working class family’s by opening his Butlins Holiday Camp to the masses. He offered them a chance that they had never been able to afford, a family holiday. Family accommodation, three square meals a day, entertainment and family games all for one affordable price, not forgetting the clean and healthy air of the seaside coast.

This explosion of holiday makers continued to grow and expand throughout the years and with it the static holiday caravan market. Over the years the number of Caravan Parks has increased well into the hundreds locally, many older one's changing from mainly touring caravan sites to static sites and, in the majority of cases, any new development is now designed purely for static holiday caravans, which means a continual growth to add to the many thousands of holiday homes already in the area.  

Today the holiday caravan market in and around Skegness, and along the coast line through to Mablethorpe, is worth hundreds of millions of pounds annually, to the local economy, as it is the most heavily populated caravan and recreational area of the UK.