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At Woodhall Spa (20 minutes’ drive) kids can watch a film at the retro Kinema in the Woods while fans of military history make a beeline for the Dambusters Memorial. Other sites of interest include Thorpe Camp Visitor Centre (25 minutes), which has displays on the Women’s Land Army, the Home Guard and the Cold War, and Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre (20 minutes), paying homage to the 55,000 men who died in Bomber Command during World War II. If you’re intent on browsing for (hopefully) priceless treasures, Horncastle (10 minutes) is chock-full of antique shops in which to find that elusive bargain. The Georgian market town of Louth (15 minutes) also has more than its fair share of indie shops, and lovely Lincoln (35 minutes) plays host to a soaring Gothic-style cathedral as well as a Norman-era castle housing a copy of the Magna Carta. When a day at the seaside calls, Skegness (half an hour) has a family-friendly beach backed by amusements, and kids will love seeing the cute seals and penguins at Natureland Seal Sanctuary (35 minutes). Further south along the coast you can explore other-worldly dune landscapes at Gibraltar Point National Nature Reserve (40 minutes).