Property News · January 12, 2018

Let’s move to Louth, Lincolnshire: ‘Worth the slog’


It’s worth a detour to visit this historic market town where the ills of modern life have been kept at bayWhat’s going for it? Unless en route for Mablethorpe (and, let’s face it, most of us aren’t), one rarely passes by Louth. You have to make the effort. Pack sandwiches and a flask. Crawl behind tractors, caravans and lorries laden with potatoes, past squelchy fields and countless villages ending in -by. Twist and turn and rise and fall through the Lincolnshire wolds. And then, just when you have abandoned hope of ever seeing another living soul, there it is: the fabulous spire of St James’ church rising over the dashboard. After all that, you’d fall upon Crawley as if it were Venice. But Louth is worth the slog. It’s one of those just-wonderful places. Trust me. Relative isolation and feisty locals mean many of the ills of modern life have been kept at bay. Eve & Ranshaw department store still sells antimacassars. The Playhouse cinema still has intermissions. Only Aldi has breached their defences. That’s not to say the place is a museum: Louth is beautiful, but it’s a working market town with few airs and graces. And a damn fine cheese shop. Told you it was worth it.The case against All on its lonesome ownsome. The one-way system drives me to insanity each time I come. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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