Navigation warehouse, Louth

Built at Riverhead, the end of the canal navigation (12 miles to the North Sea) by 1770 with timber imported from Scandinavia. Coal was the other significant import; wool and wheat the exports. Much of the Georgian architecture of the town was funded by profits from the navigation.

The railway arrived in Louth (and survived for just over a century until Dr Breeching did his worst) in the middle of the nineteenth century and heralded the decline of the Navigation. It provides a good route for a walk without gradient.