SKEGNESS  , a seaside resort in the S .

Lindsey, or Horncastle parliamentary division of Lincolnshire, England; 131 M . N. by E. from London by the Great Northern railway . Pop. of urban district (1go1) 2140 . Since 1873, when railway connexion was given with Firsby on the Grimsby branch line, the place has undergone a complete transformation, and now possesses good hotels and a pier . There are broad, firm sands, on which account Skegness is much visited . On bank holidays and similar occasions thousands of excursionists come from the manufacturing towns within reach . It is said that a former Skegness, an important haven, was obliterated by the encroachments of the sea; Leland, writing in the middle of the 16th century, states that proofs of this were then extant .