Skegness

Skegness is a seaside town in . 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.
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  • Type: Town with 19,600 residents
  • Description: seaside town and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England
  • Also known as: “Skegness, Lincolnshire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Skegness railway station and Natureland Seal Sanctuary.

Railway station
Photo: Dave Hitchborne, CC BY-SA 2.0.
serves the seaside resort of Skegness in , , at the eastern terminus of the Poacher Line. The station is now owned by Network Rail and managed by East Midlands Railway, which operates all services that run to and from Nottingham.

Zoo
Photo: Frombowen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, also referred to as Skegness Natureland or Skegness Seal Sanctuary is an animal attraction in Skegness, , .

Museum
Photo: Dave Currie, CC BY-SA 2.0.
, formerly known as Church Farm Museum, is an open-air museum of local and agricultural history near Skegness, , England.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Winthorpe.

Village
Photo: Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a small coastal village in the civil parish of Skegness, in the East Lindsey district of , England. It is situated approximately 2 miles north from Skegness.

Skegness

Latitude
53.1425° or 53° 8′ 33″ north
Longitude
0.3405° or 0° 20′ 26″ east
Population
19,600
Elevation
20 feet (6 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB SKE
Open location code
9F5248VR+26
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26701135
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2637762
Wiki­data ID
Q977991
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Skegness” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “اسكغنس”
  • Arabic: “سكيغنيس”
  • Armenian: “Սկեգնես”
  • Asturian: “Skegness”
  • Basque: “Skegness”
  • Bengali: “স্কেগনেস”
  • Bulgarian: “Скегнес”
  • Catalan: “Skegness”
  • Cebuano: “Skegness”
  • Chinese: “斯凯格内斯”
  • Chinese: “斯凱格內斯”
  • Czech: “Skegness”
  • Danish: “Skegness”
  • Dutch: “Skegness”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اسكجنس”
  • Finnish: “Skegness”
  • French: “Skegness”
  • German: “Skegness”
  • Gujarati: “સ્કેગનેસ”
  • Hebrew: “סקגנס”
  • Irish: “Skegness”
  • Italian: “Skegness”
  • Japanese: “スケグネス”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಕೆಗ್ನೆಸ್”
  • Korean: “스케그네스”
  • Ladin: “Skegness”
  • Latvian: “Skegnesa”
  • Lithuanian: “Skegnesas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Skegness”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Skegness”
  • Norwegian: “Skegness”
  • Persian: “اسگنس”
  • Polish: “Skegness”
  • Portuguese: “Skegness”
  • Romanian: “Skegness”
  • Russian: “Скегнесс”
  • Silesian: “Skegness”
  • Slovenian: “Skegness”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اسقنس”
  • Spanish: “Skegness (Lincolnshire)”
  • Spanish: “Skegness”
  • Swedish: “Skegness”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்கெக்னேஸ்”
  • Telugu: “స్కేగ్నెస్”
  • Turkish: “Skegness”
  • Ukrainian: “Скегнесс”
  • Urdu: “سکیجنیس”
  • Volapük: “Skegness”
  • Welsh: “Skegness”
  • “Skegness”

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