Spilsby
| Spilsby | |||
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 10 ′ N , 0 ° 6 ′ E | ||
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| Residents | 2336 (as of 2001) | ||
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| Post town | SPILSBY | ||
| ZIP code section | PE23 | ||
| Part of the country | England | ||
| region | East Midlands | ||
| Shire county | Lincolnshire | ||
| District | East Lindsey | ||
| Website: www.spilsby.info | |||
Spilsby is a small town with 2,336 inhabitants (census in 2001) in Lincolnshire in the east Midlands of England .
geography
location
Spilsby lies on the southern edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds and is 25 km from the east of the North Sea . It is 13 miles northwest of Skegness , 17 miles northeast of Boston, and 33 miles east of the county seat of Lincoln .
The area around Spilsby is characterized in the north by a gently undulating English "picture book landscape", the Wolds; in the east through a marshland stretching to the North Sea ; in the south by a geest landscape with intensive agriculture and in the west by lush pastures.
traffic
Spilsby is just off Highway 16, which runs north-south from Grimsby to Boston. The place is just off Main Route 158 which runs from Lincoln to Skegness .
Twin cities
Spilsby is twinned with the following cities.
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Fresnay-sur-Sarthe ( Sarthe department , France ) since 1988 -
Bassum ( district of Diepholz , Lower Saxony ) since 2010 - From 1986 to 1999 there was a school partnership with the Upper Saxon high school Ulricianum in the city of Aurich .
sons and daughters of the town
- John Franklin (1786–1847), English rear admiral and polar explorer
- Reg Calvert (1928–1966), music manager and radio adviser
- David Blackbourn (born 1949), British historian
Individual evidence
- ^ Official population statistics from Spilsby 2001.Retrieved on April 10, 2014
- ^ Page of the Fresnay-sur-Sarthes Partnership Committee.Retrieved April 10, 2014
- ↑ Press article about the signing of the partnership document. Accessed April 10, 2014
