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3 unusual facts about North Lincolnshire


Crowle, Lincolnshire

Over the next 300 years, it grew and had a three-day fair and later acquired another taken from nearby Garthorpe.

South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway

A rival scheme, the Yorkshire & Glasgow Union Railway, left the ECML at Thirsk, crossed the Pennines to Hawes, then Kirkby Stephen, Appleby and so reached Clifton.

Wallace L. W. Sargent

Although he became a U.S. citizen, he was born in Elsham, England.


Hull and East Riding Hospital

The hospital offers private care to patients from a wide geographic area covering East Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire.

Posted Workers Directive

The Directive came to prominence during the 2009 Lindsey Oil Refinery strikes after British workers at the Lindsey Oil Refinery in North Killingholme, North Lincolnshire claimed that they were being undercut by skilled foreign labour when the Italian construction contractor IREM appointed several hundred European (mainly Italian and Portuguese) contractors on the site at a time of high unemployment in the local and global economy.

Thornton Abbey railway station

Thornton Abbey railway station is a railway station close to the site of Thornton Abbey in North Lincolnshire, England.


see also

Montague Cholmeley

Sir Montague Cholmeley, 2nd Baronet (1802–1874), British MP for Grantham 1826–1831 and North Lincolnshire