I know I'm going to regret this, but........

[Gerry Attrick]

Good, good.........now you lot are utterley convinced of the flat and boring terrain that is Lincolnshire, perhaps I can have the roads to myself in future!

 

[dodgy]

The only hills in Lincolnshire are in Lincoln

 

[TVC]

A challenge that would even beat Ben Fogle.

 

[scook94]

If only you'd held the camera horizontally instead of leaning to the side we'd have appreciated the terrain properly.

I think this is what you actually saw isn't it?

 

[Fnaar]

Have none of you charlatans ever heard of the Lincolnshire Cliff

 

[simon_brooke]

CP gives a knowing 'wink' to Gerry, and wonders if the deniers of the Lincolnshire Wolds hillyness really know what lies therein?

I bet they'd pop a lung going from Caistor to Louth?

So how many thousand metres of ascent is that? 0.005?

I can hit the 300 metre contour within 3Km of my front door, and that's not a big hill.

 

[Ranger]

for all you doubters out there who tell me Lincolnshire is flat and boring, I took this photograph today on a ride around the wolds.

Just please don't all arrive here together because passport control can handle only two at a time!

Where I originally come from that is mountainous.

The village I was born and raised in was below sea-level and we got nosebleeds if we went on the top deck of a bus

Still can't do hills, but give me a good headwind and I love it

 

[postman]

I have seen steeper Yorkshire Puddings.

 

[ComedyPilot]

So how many thousand metres of ascent is that? 0.005?

I can hit the 300 metre contour within 3Km of my front door, and that's not a big hill.

That is not the point.

People said there were no hills in Lincolnshire, and Gerry has shown there are.

If anyone wishes to try and cycle from Caistor to Louth they'll find out the hard way. 18 miles & 1800 feet of climbing.

One poster from Luton scoffed, yet 16 miles Luton to Stevenage only produces 900 feet of climbing. Are we to assume Bedfordshire is flatter than Lincolnshire?

 

[Yorkshireman]

Have none of you charlatans ever heard of the Lincolnshire Cliff

Nay lad, that's nobbut a wide hill . This is a Cliff
http://www.malhamdale.com/cove.htm

 

[ComedyPilot]

Nay lad, that's nobbut a wide hill . This is a Cliff
http://www.malhamdale.com/cove.htm

Nay lad, that's nowt but a back door step, THIS is a cliff

http://www.rspb.org.uk/reserves/guide/b/bemptoncliffs/index.asp

 

[Yorkshireman]

 

[Gerry Attrick]

Thanks CP. Between us we may succeed in educating these non-believers.

The point of my photograph was not to illustrate a hill, otherwise I would have photographed a hill with a road on it. My OP alluded to the impression that some people have that Lincolnshire is flat and boring. My photograph serves IMHO to illustrate the beautiful countryside that the county boasts. Next time I'm out that way, I'll photograph some proper hills and give the OS references. The doubters may then be in a position of knowledge instead of jumping on the sneering bandwagon as some of you have.

Please don't assume from this that I have spat out my dummy, the title of my thread made it clear that I expected this. I couldn't give a fig if you don't wish to avail yourselves of quiet, well-surfaced (in the main) roads and countryside to die for.

CP, myself and many other lucky types have the roads to ourselves.

 

[Flying Dodo]

One poster from Luton scoffed, yet 16 miles Luton to Stevenage only produces 900 feet of climbing. Are we to assume Bedfordshire is flatter than Lincolnshire?

Stevenage is in Hertfordshire.

 

[ComedyPilot]

Stevenage is in Hertfordshire.

Luton's in Bedfordshire.