Coastwalk

Boston → Freiston Shore

Distance: 8.02 miles
Ascent: 108 metres
Duration: 2 hours 47 minutes

Prisons and persecution
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Two monuments stand on top of the sea bank east of Boston.

The first marks the spot where the Pilgrim Fathers first tried to set sail in 1607 "To find religious freedom". They were betrayed and captured, held in cells in Boston itself. (They finally to set sail years later from further round the coast.)

The second commemorates the work of the North Sea Camp (one of Jeffrey Archer's recent homes) in constructing the current sea wall to reclaim land from The Wash.