Soaring high above the town, Boston Stump (St Botolph's) is a testament to the once thriving port of Boston.  It was built in 1309 from the profits of the wool trade and is one of the largest parish churches in the country.

In the early and middle medieval periods large quantities of Lincolnshire's wool passed through the port, but Boston declined in the later Middle Ages until a renaissance in trade in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

The early nineteenth century warehouse in the foreground is one of many that line the banks of the river Witham and the fine Georgian house, on the left, hints at the new wealth of the town.