Lincoln
Lincoln is a wonderful city to visit, with lots of interesting buildings, especially on the hill up to the cathedral and castle. It is on the river Witham, which flows from the south, into Brayford Pool, and then heads east, towards Boston, and out into the Wash. The river has been used for communication for a very long time, and the first known settlement was on Brayford Pool, in the first century BCE. Originally named Lindon, meaning "pool", it later became a Roman settlement, with a fort built on the hill to the north, and the building of Fosse Dyke, connecting Brayford Pool to the River Trent - the oldest canal in England still in use - probably. When the Roman legion was moved to York, Lincoln was used as a place for legionaries to retire to, and became known as Lindum Colonia, which eventually became Lincoln. William the Conqueror had the castle built in 1068 on the site of the Roman fort, and work on the cathedral started not long after in 1092. The city was very prosp