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A1077(M) Motorway
The A1077 road runs through North Lincolnshire, England, between Scunthorpe and South Killingholme. Route Scunthorpe to Barton The western terminus of the A1077 starts at the M181 motorway '' Frodingham Grange'' roundabout in Gunness, next to the ground of Scunthorpe United F.C., a large Tesco, a Frankie & Benny's, the Gallagher Retail Park, and Travelodge Scunthorpe. It is Scunthorpe's northern ring road, built as the North West Orbital in stages 1, 2A, 2B and 3, funded by the ERDF, and known now as the ''Phoenix Parkway''. There is left turn at the ''Neap House Junction'' for the B1216 for Gunness, in Flixborough, then the ''Skippingdale Roundabout'' for the Skippingdale Industrial Estate to the north and OSI Food Solutions to the south; this factory makes all the burgers for McDonald's in the UK - 3 million a day. There is the ''Foxhills Roundabout'' for the large Foxhills Industrial Estate, home of the national Nisa (retailer), then a roundabout for the B1430 for Normanb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunness
Gunness (or Gunhouse) is a village and civil parish in North Lincolnshire, England. It is situated west from Scunthorpe, and on the east bank of the River Trent. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 2,462. On the Doncaster Road is the Grade II listed Rectory and Stable Block, built by James Fowler of Louth in 1864–66. History In 1933 ''Kelly's Directory'' noted Gunness as: a township and small village... deriving its name from forming a ness or promontory in the River Trent. It has a station, for goods only, about half a mile distant on the South Yorkshire branch of the London and North Eastern railway, and is three-quarters of a mile from Althorpe station and 3½ miles west from Scunthorpe on the same railway, 18 miles north from Gainsborough and 175 from London. It was formerly a chapelry in the parish of West Halton, but together with Burringham was formed into an ecclesiastical parish 15 Oct. 1861, from the ecclesiastical parishes of Bottesford, Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Normanby Hall
Normanby Hall is a classic English mansion, located near the village of Burton-upon-Stather, north of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire. History The present hall was built in 1825–30 to the designs of Robert Smirke for Sir Robert Sheffield (1786–1862). The Sheffield family had lived on the site since 1539 and the family's titles include Dukes of Buckingham and Normanby and Sheffield baronets. It replaced a previous 17th century building. John Sheffield became Duke of Buckingham and Normanby in 1703. He built a fine mansion in London called Buckingham House. His son, the second Duke sold the house to George III and it is now known as Buckingham Palace. The house was extended and altered to designs by Walter Brierley between 1906 and 1908. The Sheffield family moved out of Normanby Hall in 1963. The hall is now in the care of the North Lincolnshire Council. The former 350 acre (1.4 km2) estate around the hall is now a country park. Within it, there are a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wootton, North Lincolnshire
Wootton is a small village and civil parish in North Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 475. It is situated south-east from Barton-upon-Humber, north-east from Brigg and north from Humberside Airport. History A large mound, locally known as ''Galley Hill'', has been designated a Scheduled monument as it is believed to be a Bronze Age Round barrow dating from 2600 to 700 B.C. A unique Romano-British linchpin, in the form of an upright thumb, was found by an agricultural worker in the 1980s. It was purchased by the North Lincolnshire Museum. Wootton is an Anglo-Saxon settlement and is recorded in the ''Domesday Book'' as "Udetune". Inhabited by 8 villagers, 7 smallholders and 71 freemen, in over 40 households, it was considered 'very large'. The lordship of the manor was jointly held by Odo of Bayeux, a half-brother of William the Conqueror and Ralph de Mortimer, with Mortimer the tenant-in-chief. The Anglo-Saxon church of St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thornton Curtis
Thornton Curtis is a village and civil parish in the North Lincolnshire district of Lincolnshire, England, approximately south-east from the town of Barton-upon-Humber. The population (including Burnham) at the 2011 census was 295. The name ''Thornton'' is from the Old English ''thorn+tun'', meaning "village where thorn trees grow." In the 1086 ''Domesday Book'' the name is written as "Torentune". The origin of the ''Curtis'' part of the village name is unknown. The village is served by Thornton Abbey railway station. Notable buildings Nearby is the 12th-century Thornton Abbey and the Grade I listed Abbots Lodge, a country house built on the monastic ruins for the MP Sir Vincent Skinner. The parish church is a Grade I listed building dedicated to Saint Lawrence and dating from the 12th century. It consists of a 13th-century chancel, a nave, aisles, south porch and an embattled 13th-century western tower with eight pinnacles and containing 5 bells. The church was restore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huggies
Huggies is an American company that sells disposable diapers and baby wipes that is marketed by Kimberly-Clark. Huggies were first test marketed in 1968, then introduced to the public in 1978 to replace the Kimbies brand. Products Huggies carries diapers for premature babies, newborns, and infants. They have varieties for daytime and nighttime. They also offer Pull-Ups, training pants for toddlers transitioning from diapers to underwear. Huggies also sells Natural Care wipes. Pure & Natural Diapers were introduced in 2009 and marketed as an environmentally friendly alternative to traditional Huggies diapers. In 2019, Huggies introduced Special Delivery, incorporating plant-based materials. GoodNites are a line of disposable diapers made for children and adolescents who wet the bed at night. They formerly carried the Huggies logo, but are now labeled simply as "GoodNites" and are no longer sold under the Huggies brand. Gender specific diapers In Australia Australia, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimberly-Clark
Kimberly-Clark Corporation is an American multinational personal care corporation that produces mostly paper-based consumer products. The company manufactures sanitary paper products and surgical & medical instruments. Kimberly-Clark brand name products include Kleenex facial tissue, Kotex feminine hygiene products, Cottonelle, Scott and Andrex toilet paper, Wypall utility wipes, KimWipes scientific cleaning wipes and Huggies disposable diapers and baby wipes. Founded in Neenah, Wisconsin, in 1872 and based in the Las Colinas section of Irving, Texas since 1985, the company operated its own paper mills around the world for decades, but closed the last of those in 2012. With recent annual revenues topping $18 billion per year, Kimberly-Clark is regularly listed among the Fortune 500. As of March 2020, the company had approximately 40,000 employees. History Kimberly, Clark and Co. was founded in 1872 by John A. Kimberly, Havilah Babcock, Charles B. Clark and Franklyn C. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barton-upon-Humber
Barton-upon-Humber () or Barton is a town and civil parish in North Lincolnshire, England. The population at the 2011 census was 11,066. It is situated on the south bank of the Humber Estuary at the southern end of the Humber Bridge. It is south-west of Kingston upon Hull and north north-east of the county town of Lincoln. Other nearby towns include Scunthorpe to the south-west and Grimsby to the south-east. Geography Barton is on the south bank of the Humber Estuary and is at the southern end of the Humber Bridge. The Viking Way starts near the bridge. Transport connections The Barton – Cleethorpes Branch Line (opened 1849) via Grimsby terminates at Barton-on-Humber railway station. The A15 passes to the west of the town cutting through ''Beacon Hill'', and has a junction with the A1077 ''Ferriby Road'' to South Ferriby. The B1218 passes north–south through the town, and leads to Barton Waterside. Bus services provided by Stagecoach in Lincolnshire and East Yorksh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humber
The Humber is a large tidal estuary on the east coast of Northern England. It is formed at Trent Falls, Faxfleet, by the confluence of the tidal rivers Ouse and Trent. From there to the North Sea, it forms part of the boundary between the East Riding of Yorkshire on the north bank and North Lincolnshire on the south bank. Although the Humber is an estuary from the point at which it is formed, many maps show it as the River Humber. Below Trent Falls, the Humber passes the junction with the Market Weighton Canal on the north shore, the confluence of the River Ancholme on the south shore; between North Ferriby and South Ferriby and under the Humber Bridge; between Barton-upon-Humber on the south bank and Kingston upon Hull on the north bank (where the River Hull joins), then meets the North Sea between Cleethorpes on the Lincolnshire side and the long and thin headland of Spurn Head to the north. Ports on the Humber include the Port of Hull, the Port of Grimsby and the P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winteringham
Winteringham is a village in North Lincolnshire, England, on the south bank of the Humber Estuary. History Roman Britain The Romans founded a settlement probably called ''Ad Abum'' in this area. It was where Ermine Street, the major Roman road between ''Londinium'' (London) and Lincoln, terminated on the south bank of the Humber. Travellers then crossed the river by way of a ferry or low-tide ford to ''Petuaria'' ( Brough) on the north bank where Cade's Road continued on to ''Eboracum'' (York) and Hadrian's Wall. A pre-Roman ridgeway, called Yarlesgate or Earlsgate, may have also resumed here on its route south and south-west towards the Midlands and South West England. Post-Roman The village, and its neighbour Winterton to the south, were possibly named after Wintra – the first King of Lindsey. Norman The ''Domesday Book'' describes the locale as a prosperous place with three mills, a fishery and a ferry. It became the seat of a branch of the Marmion family. Modern In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winterton, Lincolnshire
Winterton is a town in North Lincolnshire, England, north-east of Scunthorpe. The 2021 census found 4,765 inhabitants living in the town. Winterton is located near the banks of the Humber and is south-west of the Humber Bridge which can be seen from many parts of the town. As of 2022, the mayor of Winterton is Marilynne Harrison. History Winterton has a history going back to Roman times and several large mosaic floors and other Roman remains have been found there. In October 1968, during road-widening works on the A1077, workers found a massive stone coffin containing a skeleton later identified as being that of a young woman aged between 20 and 25 years of age, who stood tall (the so-called Winterton Lady). She was of high status, as evidenced by the high quality of the coffin made from a single block of limestone and she was also found to be laid on a sheet of lead. Down the hill from this spot are the remains of one of the Winterton Roman villas, which is famous for i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roxby, Lincolnshire
Roxby is a village in North Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately north from Scunthorpe and south-east from Winterton on the A1077. Roxby stands on a prominent part of the Lincoln Cliff and overlooks the Humber Estuary. Roxby has fewer than 500 inhabitants, and forms part of the civil parish of Roxby cum Risby (where population details are included), which also includes the hamlet of Dragonby. Roxby Grade I listed Anglican church is dedicated to St Mary. The church, of 12th century origin with 14th century additions, is of Decorated style, and was restored and partly rebuilt in 1875 by James Fowler.Cox, J. Charles (1916) ''Lincolnshire'' p. 254; Methuen & Co. Ltd In 1719 a Roman mosaic was discovered near to the church. Several attempts to excavate the mosaic were made but it was not until 1972 when it was accurately excavated and recorded by the curator of Scunthorpe Museum. Later excavations by the Humberside Archaeology Unit concluded that the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roxby Cum Risby
Roxby cum Risby is a civil parish forming part of the district of North Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 479. The main settlement is Roxby, Lincolnshire, Roxby. Smaller settlements include Dragonby (), High Risby () and Low Risby (). Dragonby was a settlement of the Corieltauvi in the late Pre-Roman Iron Age. History The separate hamlets of Roxby and Risby were in existence and are both mentioned in the Domesday Book. Roxby was under ownership of Gilbert de Gant whilst Risby was under the ownership of the Abbot of Peterborough. Risby was later annexed by Roxby for the purposes of forming a parish. During the reign of King Henry VIII of England, Risby was taken by the Crown from the Abbot as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries and it was given to William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke (died 1570), Sir William Herbert during the reign of King Edward VI of England. Historic buildings In 1799, the mosaic floor of a Roman vill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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