The Lincolnshire Wolds combines a dramatic western scarp, rolling chalk uplands with steep-sided dry valleys and former sea cliff on the eastern edge.

The base for this diverse landscape lies beneath our feet - the geology. Rocks are the solid geology, such as chalk, limestone and sandstone that were laid down in the Cretaceous period, between 140 - 75 million years ago.

Gaumer Hill, a chalk capped outlier - off the Bluestone Heath Road

From being under a tropical sea, then covered in ice, to eventually becoming the highest eastern point between Yorkshire and Kent, the Wolds landscape that we see today has undergone immense change

You can request a 'Geology of the Lincolnshire Wolds' leaflet from our publications page