Coastwalk

Cleethorpes → Immingham

Distance: 10.1 miles
Ascent: 345 metres
Duration: 3 hours

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From Cleethorpes, through Grimsby, to Immingham: not the most glamorous of walks.

Despite this being a very industrial landscape, there was still plenty to see: the ironic "no ball games" notice on Grimsby FC's gates; the countless fish processing plants, the ever-present Grimsby Harbour Tower; the fields full of new cars, all with their windscreen wipers raised in salute.

West of Grimsby we took to the concrete sea wall, looking at the industry which lines the coast here: a power station, plants making titanium dioxide (this one with significantly more scary warning signs), pharmaceuticals, polymers and performance products. If you want to play with chemicals for a living, Grimsby seems a surprisingly popular destination.

Eventually a fence forced us inland, and for a brief moment we were treated to a delightful woodland walk before being dropped onto a busy road hurrying lorries between factory and dock on the edge of Immingham.