Cleethorpes

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Cleethorpes
Coordinates 53 ° 33 ′  N , 0 ° 1 ′  W Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′  N , 0 ° 1 ′  W
Cleethorpes (England)
Cleethorpes
Cleethorpes
Residents 31,853 (as of 2001)
administration
Post town CLEETHORPES
ZIP code section DN35
prefix 01472
Part of the country England
region Yorkshire and the Humber
Shire county North East Lincolnshire
District North East Lincolnshire
British Parliament Cleethorpes

Cleethorpes is a seaside resort on the Humber near the North Sea and has about 32,000 inhabitants as of 2001. Cleethorpes forms an agglomeration together with Grimsby , the capital of the administrative county of North East Lincolnshire .

history

Cleethorpes originally consisted of three villages ( old English : thorp = farm, settlement): Itterby, Oole and Thrunscoe. These villages were part of a larger community called Clee (Old English. For clay = tone ). The earliest finds in the area date from the Neolithic and Bronze Age ; first permanent settlement took place by the Danes in the 6th century, who founded permanent communities up to the 9th century.

Cleethorpes has long been a normal fishing village . According to a census in 1801, it had 284 inhabitants. In the 1820s the village began to develop into a holiday resort and seaside resort. In 1831 the place had 497 inhabitants.

In 1842 the law to enclose the place was passed. 2,050 acres (8.3 km 2 ) of building land divided among the landowners, and several new country roads were built.

The resort grew rapidly due to the new rail connection to the industrial cities of Yorkshire . The Cleethorpes Pier was opened in 1873, the promenade in 1885. 1873 was the place to a Local Board of Health District appointed. According to the Local Government Act of 1894, the place was raised to an urban district .

In 1916 the Urban District was officially named Cleethorpes; In 1922 and 1927 the urban area was enlarged twice. In 1936 the city was awarded the Royal Charter - it became a Municipal Borough .

Between 1974 and 1996 Cleethorpes was a separate borough within what was then the county of Humberside . The county was dissolved in 1996 and the two boroughs of Cleethorpes and Grimsby merged to form the new North East Lincolnshire Unitary Authority . In 2009, the government agency, as well as private sector companies and business representatives, decided to market the cities of Grimsby, Cleethorpes and Immingham for a promotion, especially the port sector , under the unofficial name Greater Grimsby .

politics

Cleethorpes is currently part of the Cleethorpes constituency, which has been represented by Shona McIsaac of the Labor Party since 1997 . Other cities such as Immingham and Barton-upon-Humber also belong to the constituency . Before 1997 the city belonged to parts of the constituencies Brigg and Cleethorpes, Louth and Great Grimsby. The following are the MPs sent to the British House of Commons for Cleethorpes since 1945 :

choice MP Political party
1945 Kenneth Younger Labor
1950 Sir Cyril Osborne Conservative
1969 1 Jeffrey Archer Conservative
1974 Michael Brotherton Conservative
1983 Michael Brown Conservative
1997 Shona McIsaac Labor
2012 Martin Vickers Conservative

The twin town of Cleethorpes is Königswinter in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Culture and sights

Cleethorpes is a typical English seaside resort with an entertainment mile on the beach. On the outskirts of the city there is a nature reserve with dunes and rare bird species.

The Ross Castle is a replica of a ruined castle built in 1863. It represents the highest point on the coastline. After renovation work was completed, it was reopened in June 2008. After a woman fell fatally on January 9, 2009, thought was given to closing the ruin to the public. 2007, the city won the Britain in Bloom Award of the Royal Horticultural Society in the category coastal town. The city also received a Silver Gilt Award , a Tourism Award and the Shredded Wheat Community Champions Award .

Cleethorpes Pier

Other attractions in the city include Cleethorpes Pier , Pleasure Island Family Theme Park , Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway , Discovery Center and Jungle Zoo . The latter was criticized by the local authority and animal welfare associations for poor animal husbandry.

St Adrian's Church on Grimsby Road (A180) was run by father John Hurts in the 1950s . St Peter's is the parish church of Cleethorpes, built in 1866. There is also the Church of St Francis of Assisi on Sandringham Road .

Interestingly, the football club Grimsby Town FC with Blundell Park has its venue here. This makes the club one of the few English professional clubs that play their home games in a city other than their own. There is also a gymnastics club and the Cleethorpes Rugby Union Football rugby club .

Economy and Infrastructure

Cleethorpes is not directly on the sea, but on the mouth of the Humber . When the tide is out, large stretches of the river bed in front of the city dry up. On a clear day you can see the lighthouse of the Spurn peninsula on the opposite side of the Humber .

The RNLI has a station near the pier and next to the coast guard , which is to be replaced by a new building in the near future.

Bus services to Grimsby, Immingham and the nearby villages are operated by Stagecoach Grimsby-Cleethorpes . There are also two late evening connections to Louth offered by Stagecoach in Lincolnshire .

Cleethorpes train station

The three railway companies First Transpennine Express , Northern Rail and East Midlands Trains offer train connections via Grimsby to Barton-upon-Humber (with a bus connection to Hull ), Newark-on-Trent and Manchester Airport .

The A16 from Skegness and the A46, which leads here from Bath via Coventry , Leicester and Lincoln, end in Cleethorpes . Connection to the motorway network is via Grimsby and the A180, which continues as the M180 at Barnetby . See also: A roads

Cleethorpes is home to the secondary schools The Lindsey School and Matthew Humberstone School .

Personalities

See also

Individual evidence

  1. Office for National Statistics - 2001 Census ( Memento of March 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ CW Foster (editor): Introduction: Lost vills and other forgotten places . British History Online. 1920. Retrieved July 22, 2008.
  3. Cleethorpes - A Potted History . North East Lincolnshire Directory. Archived from the original on July 24, 2008. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 22, 2008. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nely.co.uk
  4. a b Timetable  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.shonamcisaac.com  
  5. ^ A b F A Youngs Jr., Guide to the Administrative Units of England , Volume II: Northern England, London, 1991
  6. Business Welcomes Rebrand ( Memento of the original from June 30, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thisisgrimsby.co.uk
  7. Probe continues into death of woman after Ross Castle fall ( Memento of the original from April 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thisisgrimsby.co.uk
  8. 2007 RHS Britain in Bloom Winner: Coastal ( Memento of the original from December 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rhs.org.uk
  9. RHS Britain in Bloom Awards Winners ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rhs.org.uk
  10. CAPS call for closure of Cleethorpes Zoo . Captive Animals' Protection Society. July 2007. Archived from the original on November 20, 2010. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 18, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.captiveanimals.org
  11. St Peter's Church ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nelincs.gov.uk
  12. ^ Cleethorpes Athletics Club
  13. ^ Cleethorpes Rugby Club
  14. Lindsey School & Community Arts College ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tlsarts.co.uk

Web links

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