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Mablethorpe's cinema, the Loewen in Quebec Road, was previously known as the Bijou. The Dunes leisure complex lies on Mablethorpe's seafront. The seafront also gained a skatepark in 2008, which includes a small funbox, a spine and two quarter pipes. Several small caravan parks and guest houses provide tourist accommodation.
Mablethorpe and Sutton is a civil parish in East Lindsey, Lincolnshire, England. It is on the North Sea coast and includes Mablethorpe, Trusthorpe, Sutton-on-Sea and Sandilands along with the inland village of Thorpe. At the 2021 census it had a population of 12,669.
Saltfleet Manor House c. 1900 Memorial village pump. The parish church is a Grade I listed building, dedicated to Saint Botolph, dating from the 13th century. The font is 13th-century. There is a gravestone to a rector of the parish who died in 1413, set in the chancel floor. The church is now redundant. [3]
Trusthorpe is a small coastal village in the civil parish of Mablethorpe and Sutton, in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated 2 miles (3.2 km) south from Mablethorpe and 12 miles (19 km) north from Skegness. About 1 mile (1.6 km) to the west is the hamlet of Thorpe.
The Alford and Sutton Tramway ran from Alford to Sutton-on-Sea on rails set into the road. It opened in 1884 and closed five years later. [9] [10]Sutton-on-Sea railway station opened as part of the Sutton and Willoughby Railway in 1886, which connected the town southwards, enabling through holiday trains from the industrial Midlands and North of England to reach the resort.
Mablethorpe and Sutton was an Urban District in Parts of Lindsey, Lincolnshire, England from 1896 to 1974. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was created under the Local Government Act 1894 . It was enlarged in 1925 when the civil parishes of Sutton In The Marsh and Trusthorpe were transferred to the district.
In 1927, Butlin leased a piece of land from the Earl of Scarbrough by the seaside town of Skegness, where he set up an amusement park with hoopla stalls, a tower slide, a haunted house ride and, in 1928, a miniature railway and Dodgem cars—these were the first bumper cars in Britain, as Butlin had an exclusive license to import them. [notes 2 ...
Harlaxton Manor is a Victorian country house in Harlaxton, Lincolnshire, England.The house was built for Gregory Gregory, a local squire and businessman. Gregory employed two of the leading architects of Victorian England, Anthony Salvin and William Burn and consulted a third, Edward Blore, during its construction.