LINCOLNSHIRE

Lincolnshire spreads from the flat shores of the North Sea westward to the Midlands and north to Yorkshire. It's undulating and in places flat, especially where it joins with the Fens and the Wash in the South. But it actually has a high central chalk ridge, the Lincolnshire Edge upon which Lincoln itself perches.

The middle is ultimate farm country. Under big skies a vast open countryside broods, with vast fields and small villages. It is an isolated county, remaining bypassed by new connections, and by most main roads; its rail lines lead to nowhere else but points in the county. It has little heavy industry and that is up in the north in such towns as Scunthorpe and the fishing port of Grimsby towards the coast from Skegness to the Humber, all sand, mud and marsh.


FACTS ON THE REGION

  • Name first recorded: 1016 at Lincolnescire.

  • Motto: Perseverance vincit ("pereverance succeeds").

  • Famous people:Famous people who originate from Lincolnshire include the former Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher (who came from Grantham), the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson (from Somersby) and the famous 17th Century scientist and discoverer of gravity, Sir Isaac Newton.

  • The 1990's:Modern day Lincolnshire relies on cattle and sheep farming, horse breeding, cereal production, oil production and, something they have in common with their close neighbours the Dutch, flower bulb production for their living.


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