Conisholme Methodist Church

The red brick Methodist chapel sitting just outside Louth is the sort of place you'd miss entirely if you weren't looking for it - which rather feels like the point. Conisholme Methodist Church is a genuine working chapel, small and unassuming, built in that solid Victorian way that suggests the community took their faith seriously and their aesthetics moderately.

What you're looking at is a proper piece of 19th-century religious life in rural Lincolnshire. The interior is simple - whitewashed walls, wooden pews, the kind of place where a couple of hundred voices would have filled the space to the rafters on a Sunday. There's something quietly moving about Methodist chapels; they lack the grandeur of parish churches but somehow feel more intimate because of it.

This is really one for people interested in social history and the role of Nonconformist churches in shaping English villages. Children will find it small and a bit static unless they're already chapel enthusiasts. Give it twenty minutes, maximum.

If you're staying at Lakeside Park, just 1.8 miles away, or any of the other parks dotting this corner of Lincolnshire, it's worth a short drive on a wet afternoon. Pair it with a walk around Louth itself - the town's got more character than you'd expect, with a decent high street and some proper pubs. The Wolds are close by too, which is where the real walking happens.