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Saltfleetby is a village and civil parish in the
The Second World War defences constructed in and around Saltfleetby have been documented by William Foot. They included extensive minefields between the Great Eau river and the dunes, a large number of pillboxes and a Home Guard shelter in the field adjacent to The Prussian Queen.
Saltfleetby-Theddlethorpe Dunes National Nature Reserve
Natural England. Retrieved 18 May 2012
Saltfleetby C of E Primary School
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and north from Mablethorpe. The parish had a population of 599 in the 2001 Census, decreasing to 568 at the 2011 Census.
A local name for the village is Soloby.
Until 1999 Saltfleetby comprised three parishes: Saltfleetby St Peter, Saltfleetby All Saints and Saltfleetby St Clement, each one centred on the church that gave it its name. The hamlet of Three Bridges is south of Saltfleetby St Peter.
Saltfleetby contains a wooden village hall, fishing lakes with a campsite and shop, and the currently-closed Prussian Queen public house.
Saltfleetby Gas Field
Theddlethorpe Gas Terminal (TGT) is a former gas terminal on the Lincolnshire coast on ''Mablethorpe Road'' at Theddlethorpe St Helen close to Mablethorpe in East Lindsey in England. It is just off the A1031 and next door to a holiday camp and M ...
, north of North End Lane, is part of the neighbouring village of South Cockerington
South Cockerington is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately east from the market town of Louth.
The parish church is a Grade I listed building dedicated to Saint Leonard ...
.
Second World War
The Second World War defences constructed in and around Saltfleetby have been documented by William Foot. They included extensive minefields between the Great Eau river and the dunes, a large number of pillboxes and a Home Guard shelter in the field adjacent to The Prussian Queen.
Geography and ecology
A section of the parish seashore is salt marsh between Saltfleetby and the North Sea, and is part of theSaltfleetby-Theddlethorpe Dunes National Nature Reserve
Saltfleetby-Theddlethorpe Dunes is a national nature reserve on the coast of Lincolnshire, England, in the parishes of Saltfleetby and Theddlethorpe. It is managed in part by Natural England; in part by the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust, and cons ...
, which has sea dunes and both saltwater and freshwater marshes. The reserve is one of only around 60 places in the UK where the natterjack toad is found. Many halophyte (salt-tolerating) plant species are found there as well as wild orchids. Grey seals breed farther north in Donna Nook
Donna Nook is a point on the low-lying coast of north Lincolnshire, England, north of the village of North Somercotes and south of Grimsby. The area, a salt marsh, is used by a number of Royal Air Force stations in Lincolnshire for bombing pract ...
nature reserve within the Saltfleet and North Somercotes parishes.
See also
*All Saints Church, Saltfleetby
All Saints Church, Saltfleetby, is a redundant church, redundant Anglican church in the village of Saltfleetby, Saltfleetby All Saints, Lincolnshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I ...
*St Peter's Church, Saltfleetby
St Peter's Church was an Anglican parish church in the village of Saltfleetby, Lincolnshire, England (). Due to subsidence, the main part of the church was moved elsewhere in the village and the tower was left at this location. The tower is rec ...
References
External links
* *Saltfleetby-Theddlethorpe Dunes National Nature Reserve
Natural England. Retrieved 18 May 2012
Saltfleetby C of E Primary School
{{authority control Populated coastal places in Lincolnshire Civil parishes in Lincolnshire Nature reserves in Lincolnshire East Lindsey District Villages in Lincolnshire