Originally built some time during the second half of the thirteenth century as a Dominican Friary. Home to the finest live theatre and all kinds of music, dance and comedy, Blackfriars is the hub around which arts activity revolves in the area.

The theatre plays host to a huge range of live shows, both professional and local community events and the annual Blackfriars' pantomime is something of a legend in itself. With an amazing, vibrant and exciting youth theatre, which sees attendance by over 100 young people each week.

If you call into the box office you will find a relaxing and friendly atmosphere that will draw you into staying around awhile. Sample the coffee, pick up information and browse the Foyer Gallery where regular exhibitions by professional and amateur painters, sculptors, photographers and numerous craft workers are displayed.

The Haven has two exhibition spaces, extensive museum stores, a dedicated education room, a permanent research and resource access point and a varied programme of activities and events for all. It is now also home to the town's Tourist Information Centre.

Opened in 2005, the Haven has brought to Boston a vast and different array of exhibitions and events. These range from a celebration of local, professional artists and makers, to in-depth looks at curiosities and gems from the museum collections.

Undoubtedly the grandest house in town. Rebuilt in 1726 for Samuel Jackson, it is named after Robert Fydell, who bought it in 1733. It was occupied for much of its time by members of the Fydell family, who were wine merchants and mayors of Boston. In 1938 the American Room was dedicated for the use of American visitors by US Ambassador Joseph Kennedy. Now owned by the Boston Preservation Trust it is used as an adult education centre for Nottingham University.

Boston's open air market, the largest in Lincolnshire, has been held for over 450 years and is a very popular attraction.
The Wednesday market has up to 172 Stalls and includes an auction on Bargate Green.
The Saturday market consists of up to 148 stalls sited in the Market Place.
There is a Farmers Market on the 3rd Wednesday of each month.

Better known as the Boston Stump, St.Botolph`s is the largest parish church in England measuring 282 ft long, 272 ft high and 20,070 sq.ft in area. Building, on the main body of the church, began in 1309 with the tower being added over nearly 100 years, between 1425 and 1520. The medieval wealth of the town encouraged its grand style. The stone used in the construction is from nearby Barnack. The interior includes an imposing font by Pugin in 1853 and a wonderful range of medieval stalls circa 1390. On a clear day Lincoln Cathedral, 32 miles to the north, can be seen from the balcony of the church tower.

The present building of St. Botolph's church replaced a Norman church. The stained glass windows all belong to the last century including the "ladies" window. This portrays four famous women of Boston, Anne of Bohemia, Margaret Beaufort, Anne Bradstreet (America's first woman poet) and Jean Ingelow also a poet. At the West End the forty-foot square tower stands. The interior is magnificent rising 137 feet to its vaulted roof. The centre boss, depicting the Agnus Dei, weighs six tons.

High up in the tower is a ring of ten bells and a carillon of fifteen. The Cotton Chapel, reserved for private prayer and daily worship, is the smallest space in the building.

St. Botolph's is fortunate to have retained its parish library still housed in its original room above the porch where it began in 1634. It contains nearly 1,200 books, many of which are at present in need of considerable repair and conservation.

Boston Guildhall - also known at St Mary's Guildhall and Guildhall Museum, re-opened in March 2008 after six years of extensive restoration work. The new interactive and other displays focus on the amazing story of the building; one of Lincolnshire's hidden medieval gems.

New research has dated the building to around 1390, when it became the home for the rich and powerful Guild of St Mary, whose members were the movers and shakers of medieval Boston. Remaining a focus for wealth and power in the town, it became the Town Hall in 1546 and continued to play an important role in the life of Boston, including becoming a British Restaurant in World War II. Legend has it that the Pilgrim Fathers Bradford and Brewster were held in the Guildhall cells prior to their trial in Lincoln in 1607. The painting of Sir Joseph Banks, (which has been restored with help from the Friends of St Mary's Guildhall and the Haven) has pride of place in the council chamber.

The Guildhall, along with the Haven Gallery has recently been awarded accredited status in the Museum Libraries and Archives Council.

Winner of Lincolnshire Museum of the Year 2008 and RICS East Midlands Conservation and OVERALL Project of the Year 2008.

The Maud Foster Mill is situated close to the town centre, just beyond Bargate Bridge, and is the tallest working windmill in the country. Unusually, it has five sails, or 'sweeps'.

It was built in 1819, for the Reckitt family, to grind corn brought in by barge along the Maud Foster 'Drain'. The mill was in operation until 1948 when mechanical problems made it unusable. Following a complete restoration it was re-opened in 1988 and is once again producing home ground flour. There are fine views from the outside platform.

The tearoom in the old granary serves morning coffee, lunch and afternoon tea. Vegetarians are well catered for.

The mill shop sells organic flour, porridge oats, jam, chutney and local honey.

There is a free car park.

The RSPB is a UK charity working for the conservation of wild birds, other wildlife and the places in which they live in a wide variety of ways. The RSPB own and manage 200 nature reserves, where wildlife can thrive and people can be inspired.

Frampton Marsh

You will see birds here at any time, but high tides from autumn to spring are best for roosting wading birds: the bigger the tide the better the spectacle.

In winter there are brent geese, birds of prey, twites, corn buntings, rock pipits and, with luck, Lapland buntings. In summer, large numbers of redshanks breed at an exceptionally high density.

Other breeding species include oystercatchers, skylarks and reed buntings. Marsh harriers can frequently be seen hunting over the reserve.

It is the place to see some of the thousands of wading birds that feed and roost on the Wash.

Freiston Shore

Get close views of roosting wading birds at high tide. You may see tree sparrows, corn buntings, skylarks, yellowhammers and a barn owl.

In winter, brent geese, red-breasted mergansers, eiders and divers are offshore, while birds of prey hunt the marshes. Summer is good for nesting wading birds, including avocets, plus ringed plovers.

It is the place to see winter high tide roosts, summer breeding wading birds.

The memorial was erected in 1957 and is to be found about 4 miles out of Boston at Scotia Creek, Fishtoft.

It marks the place, where in 1607, the group of puritans, who were to become known as the Pilgrim Fathers, attempted to board a ship to flee to the religious freedom of the low countries. However, they were betrayed by the captain of the vessel and arrested by 'catchpolls'. The ringleaders were subsequently tried and imprisoned in the Guildhall.

The Separatists were eventually allowed to leave the country the following year and sailed to Holland from near Immingham. However, they found life there a little too liberal and subsequently travelled on to the New World.

Lincolnshire's newest luxury day spa is now open and taking bookings. Nestled in the heart of rural Lincolnshire The Grange Spa offers affordable luxury and pampering in a superb, relaxing countryside setting. The Grange Spa is located in the pretty rural village of Pointon, Lincolnshire and is central to many towns including Bourne, Grantham, Stamford, Lincoln, Sleaford, Boston, Spalding and Peterborough.

Keeping true to the original meaning of SPA - salus per aquam, we offer exceptional facilities, including a 12m pool with relaxing waterfall and a journey through a traditional heat experience area complete with Herbal Bath and Ice fountain. The Grange Spa offers a short break from a hectic lifestyle of 2, 4 or 8 hours giving you the chance to relax, rest, contemplate and refresh your tired body, after all you deserve it! Built to exceptional standards The Grange Spa was a finalist in the LABC East Midlands Building of the Year Awards.

Heckington Windmill is the only 8 sailed mill in western Europe. Now run under the supervision of "Friends of the Heckington Mill", it has been completely restored and open to visitors.

Among the enthusiasts who run the mill are our own team of Millers, able to give our visitors a unique educational tour of life inside the beating heart of the machine. From its heroic beginnings under the Victorian entrepreneur John Pockilington, through a golden Êage, decline in the age of mass production and the latest ambitious restoration, this building keeps our heritage alive. Standing on the edge of LincolnshireÕs Fenland makes the mill an iconic building that has inspired a whole community for generations.

Medieval brick castle rising dramatically above the Lincolnshire countryside. The castle was built on the site of a previous 13th-century stone castle, of which some remains can still be seen. Of Lord Cromwell's castle, the keep and moat still remain. It is thought that the castle's three state rooms were once splendidly fitted out and the chambers were heated by immense gothic fireplaces with decorated chimney pieces and tapestries.

The beautifully restored medieval manor house of Ayscoughfee Hall is now a museum, telling the fascinating history of the area including the drainage and reclamation of the south Lincolnshire fens.

The hall, built c1430 by Richard Alwyn, retains much of its original work including a particularly fine timber-framed roof and the museum is complemented by attractive formal gardens, laid out by William Sands around 1730.

The hall was once the home of Maurice Johnson who founded the Gentleman's Society of Spalding in 1710.