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In this one-day adult workshop James Green will introduce you to the tools used for lino printing, before showing you how to cut the lino and how to print from your completed plate. At the end of the workshop you … Continued

August 24, 2019 | News Editor

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Trinity New Age Kurling at Holydyke, Barton

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When:
24th August 2019 @ 14:00 – 16:00

Where:
Trinity Methodist Church (Barton), 10 Holydyke, Barton-upon-Humber DN18 5PS, UK

Runs every Saturday from 2 – 4pm at Lecture Hall, Barton. £3 annual membership fee and voluntary donations for tea and biscuits. For more information contact Ralph Marshall 01652 633 391. Date reviewed: 22.8.19

August 24, 2019 | News Editor

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T20 Blast: Moeen Ali hits 85 off 46 balls in Worcestershire’s win over Birmingham Bears

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Moeen Ali and Alex Hales lead Worcestershire and Nottinghamshire to victories while Kent miss out on topping the South Group.

Original Source BBC News Lincolnshire

August 23, 2019 | News Editor

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Not to be confused with Humberstone, Leicestershire.

Humberston
Humberston Beach
Humberston Humberston shown within Lincolnshire
Population	5,384 (2001)
OS grid reference	TA310053
- London	140 mi (230 km) south
Civil parish	Humberston
District	North East Lincolnshire
Unitary authority	North East Lincolnshire
Shire county	Lincolnshire
Ceremonial county	Lincolnshire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	GRIMSBY
Postcode district	DN36
Police	Lincolnshire
Fire	Lincolnshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
EU Parliament	East Midlands
UK Parliament	Cleethorpes

Humberston is a large village and civil parish to the south of Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire, England (the boundary with Cleethorpes runs along North Sea Lane and Humberston Road). Its population at the 2001 census was 5,384. However, it is likely to have increased in the past 10 years.^[1]

The Greenwich Meridian line

North Sea Lane

The Prime Meridian passes to the east of Humberston and runs through Thorpe Park caravan site.^{[citation needed]}

Humberston, or Humberstone as the village was known at first, takes its name from a large boulder, the Humber Stone, which was deposited on the site of the former Midfield Farm on the east side of the village during the last ice age.^{[citation needed]} This boulder can still be seen at the entrance to the village library, near St Peters Church. The "e" at the end of the name was later dropped, to avoid confusion with another place of the same name, viz. Humberstone, Leicestershire.

St.Peter's church

The oldest and tallest building in Humberston is St Peter's Church, rebuilt about 1710, the tower of which is over seven hundred years old.^[2] At the back of the church is the site of the former Humberston Abbey of Benedictine monks founded here in the reign of Henry II, dedicated to Saints Mary and Peter. The only remains that are left are ground workings of which the monks' mound is very prominent in the manor house garden, and during excavations stone sarcophagi were found.^[3] The Wesleyan Methodists built a small chapel here on Humberston Avenue in 1835. A larger, replacement chapel was built in 1907.^[4]

Humberstone has several claims for historic prominence:

This is where the Danes landed early in the year 870 to begin their scourge and plunder of Lincolnshire.^{[citation needed]}
One of the first Wireless Stations was built here in 1910.^{[citation needed]}

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