South Kesteven - Mensa International, Grantham, Woodland Trust, Stamford, Lincolnshire, Skdc By-Election Results 1996 Onwards (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 37. Chapters: Mensa International, Grantham, Woodland Trust, Stamford, Lincolnshire, SKDC By-election results 1996 onwards, Grantham and Stamford, Barkston, Greatford, A6121 road, Stoke Rochford, Tallington, Great Ponton, Bourne Grammar School, Rutland Radio, Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School, Grantham College, Key Publishing, Haconby, South Witham, Burton Coggles, Little Ponton, Caythorpe, Lincolnshire, Openfield, Central Technology & Sports College, All Saints' Church, Stamford, South Kesteven Council election 1983, South Kesteven Council election 1991 - Partial, Twyford Wood, South Kesteven Council election 1987 - Partial, South Kesteven Council election 1995 - Partial, South Kesteven Council election 2007, River Gwash, South Kesteven local elections. Excerpt: Grantham is a market town within the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It bestrides the East Coast Main Line railway (London-Edinburgh), the historic A1 main north-south road, and the River Witham. Grantham is located approximately 26 miles (42 km) south of the city of Lincoln, and approximately 24 miles (39 km) east of Nottingham. The resident population at the 2001 census was 34,592 in around 18,000 households, excluding the adjacent village of Great Gonerby. With the housing estates in Londonthorpe and Harrowby Without (around a population of 4,500), this figure would be around 42,000. The town is best known as the birthplace of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher, and the place where Isaac Newton went to school. It is close to an ancient Roman road, and was the scene of Oliver Cromwell's first advantage over Royalists during the English Civil War at Gonerby Moor. Grantham is also notable for having the first female police officers in the United Kingdom, in 1914, and producing the first running diesel engine in 1892, and the UK's first tractor i...