Ermine, Lincoln
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Ermine is an inner-city suburb and
housing estate A housing estate (or sometimes housing complex or housing development) is a group of homes and other buildings built together as a single development. The exact form may vary from country to country. Popular throughout the United States a ...
of Lincoln in
Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-west, Leicestershire ...
, England. Located to the north of the city, it is named after
Ermine Street Ermine Street is a major Roman road in England that ran from London (''Londinium'') to Lincoln (''Lindum Colonia'') and York (''Eboracum''). The Old English name was ''Earninga StrĒ£t'' (1012), named after a tribe called the ''Earningas'', ...
. The area is one of the city's largest suburbs and was at one point the roughest area of Lincoln.


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* {{Authority control Areas of Lincoln, England