In June 2013 I went to Pelham’s Pillar with a small group of people. We were allowed to climb the 100+ steps to the top of this local monument where you could get an amazing 360 degree view of the top of Caistor.
The only problem was that they had installed shatterproof glass, the stuff with the fine wire in that criss-crosses through the pain of glass, which ruined any chance of getting some great photography from the top.
Pelham’s Pillar is a monument dedicated to Charles Anderson-Pelham, 1st Earl of Yarborough who died in 1846.
The Pillar is in Caistor, North Lincolnshire on part of the Yarborough estate at Brocklesby, and is a viewing tower built to enable the earls to view the estate. It is 39 metres (128 ft) high and is guarded by two stone lions at the door. It is said that, when it was built, everything that could be seen from the top belonged to Charles Anderson-Pelham.
The architect was Edward James Willson of Lincoln. The foundation of the pillar was laid by Pelham’s son Charles Anderson-Pelham, 2nd Earl of Yarborough, and it was completed by his grandson Charles Anderson-Pelham, 3rd Earl of Yarborough, in 1849. Prince Albert visited the pillar in the year of its completion.