It was inaugurated by the Duke of Edinburgh and in its glory days received , visitors a year, and was the base for a steamboat company that offered cruises down the coast to the Wash. You can walk these remaining boards to stare out at the North Sea and survey the massive sandy carpet of Skegness Beach. The pier has a soft play area, trampolines for children and an amusement arcade where kids can earn tickets for prizes. By the beach on north parade, Natureland Seal Sanctuary is an animal attraction that has been around since You can see rehabilitation in progress, as the seals are readied to be released back into the North Sea.
The park has an array of other animals like alpacas, penguins, meerkats and farmyard animals, along with a tropical house for crocodiles, snakes and scorpions. The humid Floral Palace has an array of tropical and Mediterranean plants and is inhabited by vibrant tropical butterflies. Along with the Jolly Fisherman, the tower has helped put Skegness on the map, and has blind arches flanked by pinnacles below an octagonal shaft capped with a four-faced clock under a slate roof and weather vane.
Over the years the ground has subsided a little, causing the tower to lean slightly towards the town. Source: facebook. These buildings hold exhibitions about agriculture and rural domestic life in the 19th and 20th century, with home interiors, machinery and manual tools, as well as details of regional breeds like longwool sheep and red poll cattle.
The Havenhouse tea room has home-baked cakes and freshly cooked food, while you can also time your visit for one of the weekly activities like archery or painting classes. Drive south from the centre of Skegness and the resort soon gives way to a National Nature Reserve made up of two parallel ridges of sand dunes framing a valuable expanse of salt marsh.
Gibraltar Point is a wintering nest for Arctic waterfowl and shorebirds like red knots, grey plovers, bar-tailed godwits and Eurasian oystercatchers, while little terns breed in this environment. The reserve is laced with walking trails and have hides and artificial lakes to help you get a closer look at these birds.
The Visitor Centre is equipped with terrariums and tanks with species from the Lincolnshire coast, and detailed information about the unique habitat of Gibraltar Point. Previously this land had been owned by Lord Scarborough, and on their unveiling in they were presented to the people of Skegness as a place to unwind.
The gardens were reworked in the s, and the pavilions, bridges, sunken formal gardens, mock castles and bowling green from that time are all characteristic of English seaside resort parks. It sits at the end of a long, half-mile drive, and both the hall and its spacious grounds are run by the National Trust. Also allow some time for the gardens, which have pristine clipped lawns, a wildflower walk, canal and a walled kitchen garden with seasonal produce sold at the tea room.
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