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CLEETHORPES

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 478 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CLEETHORPES  , a watering-

place of
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Lincolnshire, England; within the
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parliamentary borough of
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Great Grimsby, 3 m . S.E. of that
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town by a branch of the Great Central railway . Pop. of urban
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district of Cleethorpe with Thrunscoe (1901) 12,578 . Cleethorpes faces eastward to the North Sea, but its
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shore of
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fine sand, affording good bathing, actually belongs to the estuary of the
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Humber . There is a pier, and the sea-wall extends for about a mile, forming a pleasant
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promenade . The suburb of New Clee connects Cleethorpes with Grimsby . The church of the
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Holy Trinity and St Mary is principally Norman of various
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dates, but
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work of a date apparently previous to the
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Conquest appears in the tower . Cleethorpes is greatly favoured by visitors from the midland counties,
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Lancashire and
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Yorkshire .

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Cleethorpes is not in the Parliamentary Borough of Great Grimsby. It is :- Constituency of Cleethorpes, Immingham, Barton & the Wold Parishes.
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