A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
CLEETHORPES, or Cleethorpe-with-Thrunscoe, a township in Clee parish, Lincoln; on the coast, at the Humber's mouth, and at the terminus of a branch of the Manchester and Lincolnshire railway, 2½ miles ESE of Great Grimsby. It has a railway station, a post office, of the name of Cleethorpes, under Grimsby, good hotels, numerous new lodging-houses, and a fine sandy beach; and is a watering-place, much frequented in summer for sea-bathing. Pop., 1, 230. Houses, 268. Many of the inhabitants are employed in oyster-dredging. There are a church in the second pointed style, built in 1866, Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, a national school, and a coast-guard station.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Clee CP Lincolnshire AncC |
| Place names: | CLEETHORPES | CLEETHORPES OR CLEETHORPE WITH THRUNSCOE | CLEETHORPE WITH THRUNSCOE |
| Place: | Cleethorpes |
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