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Work begins on improvement project at North Lincolnshire park

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The work, which started on Monday (September 11) has been made possible by the collaboration of North Lincolnshire Council and the voluntary organisation, Friends of Baysgarth Park. Chair of FoBP, Councillor Paul Vickers, explained that the ultimate …

September 14, 2017 | News Editor

North Lincolnshire

Artisan traders team up under one roof as ‘unique’ shop selling bespoke gifts comes to Cleethorpes

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A collection of 14 independent artisan traders each making and selling bespoke homeware products and gifts will come together under one roof when a new shop opens in Cleethorpes. In a business venture like no other, Emporium 53 will offer a unique …

September 14, 2017 | News Editor

Cleethorpes

Businessman accused of fraud ‘tried to get £100000 finance package’

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Businessman accused of fraud ‘tried to get £100000 finance package’Businessman accused of fraud ‘tried to get £100,000 finance package’. Sean Henderson, 51, of Thoresby Road, Tetney, and his colleagues Mark Pickerden, 52, of Main Road, Barnoldby-le-Beck, and Richard Burn, 70, of Kenwick Road, Louth, deny three …

September 14, 2017 | News Editor

Barnoldby le Beck

New Lindsey Lodge Hospice community shop set to open in Scunthorpe later this month

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Pictured outside the new Lindsey Lodge Hospice shop on Willoughby Road in Scunthorpe are (left to right) store manager Will Marsh, business development director Kate Conway, volunteer Ricky Hart and internet trading co-ordinator Michael Coulson.

September 14, 2017 | News Editor

Scunthorpe

MP gives backing to campaign seeking to replace ‘confusing’ North Lincolnshire name with just Lincolnshire

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Martin Vickers, whose Cleethorpes constituency covers the Barton-Upon-Humber area, has put his name to a campaign letter from the British Counties Campaign, which wants a new law reinstating the prominence of historic county names. Sir Edward Leigh

September 14, 2017 | News Editor

Barton upon Humber

MP gives backing to campaign seeking to replace ‘confusing’ North …

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Martin Vickers, MP for the Barton area, has backed the British Counties Campaign, which wants to end North Lincolnshire and North east Lincolnshire as postal

September 14, 2017 | News Editor

Barton upon Humber

Parking changes at Scunthorpe General Hospital to come into force next week

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A new system for parking will come into force at Scunthorpe General Hospital this week. The Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) system for parking comes into effect on Monday (September 18). Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation …

September 14, 2017 | News Editor

Scunthorpe

Lea crematorium ‘will ease pressure on funeral services’

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The move has been prompted by a burial plot shortage, and increased demand for cremation services.

Original Source BBC News Lincolnshire

September 14, 2017 | News Editor

Lincolnshire

80th anniversary of the Scunthorpe Telegraph: Marking eight decades of bringing North Lincolnshire the news

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Over the coming days, we will be publishing a series of features looking back over the decades in which the Telegraph has faithfully served the steel town and surrounding community across northern Lincolnshire. We recall some of the major news and

September 14, 2017 | News Editor

North Lincolnshire

80th anniversary of the Scunthorpe Telegraph: Marking eight …

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The first edition of your appeared in September 1937.Lea crematorium ‘will ease pressure on funeral services’ – BBC NewsBBC NewsNew crematorium could be built in Lincolnshire to slash waiting timesLincolnshireLiveall 5 news articles »

September 14, 2017 | News Editor

Scunthorpe

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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