Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire is a county in the East Midlands region of central England. There are many historic sites in Lincolnshire that date from a range of periods with some such as Lincoln Cathedral dating back nearly 1,000 years.Photo: DrMoschi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Lincoln and Grimsby.
Lincoln
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Lincoln is the county town of Lincolnshire, with a population of 97,541 in 2019. It has a well-preserved medieval centre, with a cathedral and castle atop its cobbled Steep Hill.
Grimsby
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Grimsby is a fishing port in Lincolnshire, standing on the south bank of the mouth of the River Humber, with a population in 2021 of 86,000. It merges into the seaside town of Cleethorpes, and this conurbation and rural hinterland comprise the unitary Local Authority of North East Lincolnshire, also called Great Grimsby.
Scunthorpe
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Scunthorpe is an industrial town in Lincolnshire, England, and the county's third most populous settlement after Lincoln and Grimsby, with a population of 81,286 in 2021.
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Stamford
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Stamford is a market town at the south-west corner of Lincolnshire, with a population of about 21,000. It's a charming place with a well-preserved Georgian centre, and with opulent Burghley House just south.
Grantham
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Grantham is a market town and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated on the banks of the River Witham and bounded to the west by the A1 road; it lies 23 miles south of Lincoln and 22 miles east of Nottingham.
Boston
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Boston is a market town in Lincolnshire, England, with a population of 70,500 in 2021. Boston's most notable landmark is St Botolph's Church, which is visible from miles away across the flat lands of Lincolnshire.
Skegness
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Skegness is a seaside town in Lincolnshire. It has many visitors on a regular basis, mostly to Butlins Skegness. It's “so bracing”, according to the famous “Jolly Fisherman” Edwardian travel poster.
Gainsborough
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Gainsborough is a market town and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The population was 20,842 at the 2011 census, and estimated at 23,243 in 2019.
Spalding
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Spalding is a market town on the River Welland in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire. Spalding has been long famous as a centre of the flower bulb industry. In 2017, it was home to 34,000 people.
Sleaford
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Sleaford is a market town and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. On the edge of the Fenlands, it is 11 miles north-east of Grantham, 16 mi west of Boston, and 17 mi south of Lincoln.
Cleethorpes
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Cleethorpes is a seaside resort on the Lincolnshire coast of England, south bank of the estuary of the River Humber, with a population in 2021 of 30,000.
Bourne
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Bourne is a market town in Lincolnshire, with a population of 18,000 in 2021. There are 71 listed buildings in the parish of Bourne, the most important being Bourne Abbey and the Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul, which is scheduled Grade I.
Louth
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Louth is a market town and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. Louth serves as an important town for a large rural area of eastern Lincolnshire.
Barton-upon-Humber
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Barton-upon-Humber is a town and civil parish in North Lincolnshire. It is situated on the south bank of the Humber Estuary, and at the end of the Humber Bridge.
Alford
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Alford is a market town and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, at the foot of the Lincolnshire Wolds, which form an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Spilsby
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Spilsby is a market town in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire. It is home to the ruins of Bolingbroke Castle.
Mablethorpe
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Mablethorpe is a seaside town in the civil parish of Mablethorpe and Sutton, in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The population including nearby Sutton-on-Sea was 12,531 at the 2011 census and estimated at 12,633 in 2019.
Ruskington
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Ruskington is a large village in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. The population was 5600 in 2011.
Tattershall
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Tattershall is in Lincolnshire. Village historic sites include the church of the Holy Trinity, a buttercross, Tattershall Castle, Collegiate College, and Tom Thumb's house and grave.
Lincolnshire
- Type: Region with 1,070,000 residents
- Description: ceremonial county in the east of England
- Also known as: “Ceremonial County Lincolnshire”, “County of Lincoln”, “Lincoln”, and “Lincs”
- Neighbors: Cambridgeshire, East Yorkshire, Leicestershire, Norfolk, Nottinghamshire, Rutland, and South Yorkshire
- Category: ceremonial county of England
- Location: East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Lincolnshire” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Lincolnshire”
- Albanian: “Lincolnshire”
- Arabic: “لنكنشير”
- Arabic: “لنكولنشاير”
- Arabic: “لنكولنشير”
- Arabic: “لينكولنشير”
- Arabic: “لينكونشير”
- Armenian: “Լինկոլնշիր”
- Armenian: “Լինքոլնշիր”
- Asturian: “Lincolnshire”
- Azerbaijani: “Linkolnşir qraflığı”
- Balinese: “Lincolnshire”
- Basque: “Lincolnshire”
- Belarusian: “графства Лінкальншыр”
- Belarusian: “Лінкальншыр (графства)”
- Belarusian: “Лінкальншыр”
- Bengali: “লিংকনশায়ার”
- Bengali: “লিঙ্কোনশায়ার”
- Breton: “Lincolnshire”
- Bulgarian: “Линкълншър”
- Catalan: “Lincolnshire”
- Cebuano: “Lincolnshire”
- Chechen: “Линкольншир”
- Chinese: “Lincolnshire”
- Chinese: “斯皮爾斯比”
- Chinese: “林肯郡”
- Cornish: “Lincolnshire”
- Croatian: “Lincolnshire”
- Czech: “Lincolnshire”
- Danish: “Lincolnshire”
- Dutch: “Lincolnshire”
- Egyptian Arabic: “لنكولنشاير”
- Esperanto: “Lincolnshire”
- Esperanto: “Linkolnŝiro”
- Estonian: “Lincolnshire”
- Finnish: “Lincolnshire”
- French: “Lincolnshire”
- Galician: “Lincolnshire”
- Georgian: “ლინკოლნშირი”
- German: “Lincolnshire”
- Greek: “Λινκολνσάιρ”
- Greek: “Λίνκολνσιρ”
- Gujarati: “લિંકનશાયર”
- Hakka Chinese: “Lincolnshire”
- Hebrew: “לינקולנשייר”
- Hindi: “लिंकनशायर”
- Hungarian: “Lincolnshire”
- Icelandic: “Lincolnshire”
- Ido: “Lincolnshire”
- Indonesian: “Lincolnshire”
- Interlingua: “Lincolnshire”
- Irish: “Lincolnshire”
- Italian: “Lincolnshire”
- Japanese: “リンカンシャー”
- Kannada: “ಲಿಂಕನ್ಷೈರ್”
- Kashmiri: “لِنٛکَنشایر”
- Korean: “링컨셔주”
- Kurdish: “Lincolnshire”
- Ladin: “Lincolnshire”
- Latin: “Lincolniensis comitatus”
- Latvian: “Linkolnšīra”
- Lithuanian: “Linkolnšyras”
- Luxembourgish: “Lincolnshire”
- Macedonian: “Линколншир”
- Manx: “Lincolnshire”
- Marathi: “लिंकनशायर”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lincolnshire”
- Nepali: “लिङकनसायर”
- Northern Frisian: “Lincolnshire”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lincolnshire”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lincolnshire”
- Norwegian: “Lincolnshire”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Lincolnshire”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Lincolnscīr”
- Ossetian: “Линкольншир”
- Persian: “لینکلنشر”
- Persian: “لینکولنشایر”
- Polish: “Lincolnshire”
- Portuguese: “Lincolnshire”
- Romanian: “Lincolnshire”
- Russian: “Линкольншир”
- Scots: “Lincolnshire”
- Serbian: “Линколншир”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lincolnshire”
- Slovak: “Lincolnshire”
- Slovenian: “Lincolnshire”
- Spanish: “Lincolnshire”
- Swedish: “Lincolnshire”
- Tajik: “Линколншир”
- Tamil: “லிண்கான்ஷிர்”
- Telugu: “లింకన్షైర్”
- Thai: “ลิงคอล์นเชอร์”
- Turkish: “Lincolnshire”
- Turkish: “Törensel Lincolnshire Kontluğu”
- Ukrainian: “Лінкольншир”
- Urdu: “لنکنشائر”
- Venetian: “contea de Lincoln”
- Vietnamese: “Lincolnshire”
- Volapük: “Lincolnshire”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lincolnshire”
- Welsh: “Swydd Lincoln”
- Western Frisian: “Lincolnshire”
- Western Panjabi: “لنکنشائر”
- Wu Chinese: “林肯郡”
- Yiddish: “לינקאנשיר”
- Yue Chinese: “林肯郡”
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