Wold Newton, North Lincolnshire
For centuries lying in Lincolnshire, in 1974 a faceless beaurocrat managed to create an inexplicable salient in the newly formed boundary line of the artificial and ultimately doomed new county of Humberside and extract Wold Newton from the Lincolnshire Wolds, thus making the name rather pointless. Today, Wold Newton is the highest point in North East Lincolnshire, bearing in mind it used to be the highest natural point in Lincolnshire as well. Lincoln Cathedral is higher, at 525 feet, but not a natural feature. Eastwards, the next point of land the same height are the Ural Mountains in Russia
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