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Cllr Rob Waltham has met with Heathrow Airport Public Affairs Manager, Sophie Carter, to discuss how the planned expansion of Heathrow can benefit North Lincolnshire.

Original Source North Lincolnshire Council

October 3, 2017 | News Editor

North Lincolnshire

How North Lincolnshire could benefit from Heathrow Airport expansion

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Mr Waltham also secured access for North Lincolnshire businesses to attend the Heathrow Northern Supplier event in November. He said: “The expansion of Britain’s busiest airport may feel hundreds of miles away but could provide some real benefits for …

October 3, 2017 | News Editor

North Lincolnshire

First Cleethorpes, now these towns will charge you to spend a penny!

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It happened in Cleethorpes and now when you take a trip to Louth or the neighbouring Lincolnshire coastal resort towns, it will cost you 20 pence to enter public toilets. The 20 pence entry charge will be introduced at 13 public toilets in East Lindsey …

October 3, 2017 | News Editor

Cleethorpes

Leader extends Market consultation

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Cllr Rob Waltham has extended the consultation on Scunthorpe Market by a further three weeks to give residents, shoppers and traders more opportunity to share their views.

Original Source North Lincolnshire Council

October 3, 2017 | News Editor

North Lincolnshire

Council establishes Kingsway Local Nature Reserve

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North Lincolnshire Council will designate a new Local Nature Reserve in Scunthorpe.

Original Source North Lincolnshire Council

October 3, 2017 | News Editor

North Lincolnshire

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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