English Heritage sites near Great Coates Parish
THORNTON ABBEY AND GATEHOUSE
9 miles from Great Coates Parish
Thornton Abbey’s enormous and ornate fortified gatehouse is the largest and amongst the finest of all English Monastic gatehouses.
ST PETER'S CHURCH, BARTON-UPON-HUMBER
15 miles from Great Coates Parish
Located in North Lincolnshire, St Peter's Church is an archaeological and architectural treasure trove waiting for you to discover. It is home to over 2800 burials from Anglo-Saxon to Victorian times.
GAINSTHORPE MEDIEVAL VILLAGE
19 miles from Great Coates Parish
A deserted medieval village, one of the best-preserved examples in England, clearly visible as a complex of grassy humps and bumps.
SKIPSEA CASTLE
28 miles from Great Coates Parish
An impressive Norman motte and bailey castle, dating from before 1086 and among the first raised in Yorkshire, with the earthworks of an attendant fortified 'borough'.
LINCOLN MEDIEVAL BISHOPS' PALACE
29 miles from Great Coates Parish
Standing almost in the shadow of Lincoln cathedral, with sweeping views over the ancient city and the countryside beyond.
BOLINGBROKE CASTLE
29 miles from Great Coates Parish
The remains of a 13th-century hexagonal castle, birthplace in 1367 of the future King Henry IV, with adjacent earthworks. Besieged and taken by Cromwell's Parliamentarians in 1643.
Churches in Great Coates Parish
St Nicolas
Great Coates Road
Great Coates
(01472) 280 477
http://www.westgrimsbyteam.org
Great Coates is on the edge of Grimsby, and traffic coming in and out of the town from the A180 passes on a road which was cut through the Rectory garden in the 1950s.
Looking across the churchyard (famous for its spring flowers) passers by see what was the village church with its large fourteenth century tower.
Those who come in find central pillars dating from about 1200 and a perfect atmosphere for reflection and prayer.
Those who enquire further can encounter the pre-Reformation brasses and even rub the recently created replicas of them.
Those who stay find a regular congregation of about two dozen at 10.30 a.m. most Sundays who are stuck into everything from care of neighbours to promoting fair trade.
Pubs in Great Coates Parish
Crafty1
A former industrial unit has been converted inside using containers to make a bar and kitchen area. Shipping pallets have been used inside the pub to build seating areas which are positioned for social distancing. Boozy Bob's brewery is in...
Haven
A member of the "Brewer's Fayre" chain, although on the outskirts of town (adjacent to A180), it's extremely popular, notably for its food which includes a carvery. A substantial building, it's broken up internally into a multiplicity of no...