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Winthorpe is a small coastal village in the civil parish of Skegness, in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) north from Skegness. Winthorpe was both an ancient parish, and a civil parish, until 1 April 1926 when it was abolished.
The Derbyshire Miner's Welfare Holiday Centre at Skegness was officially opened on 20 May 1939, by Sir Frederick Sykes, the Chairman of the Miners' Central Welfare Committee. At the opening ceremony he said: "I do not think there is any other non-profit making camp of the kind in the country.
The parishes of Skegness and Winthorpe were united in 1978; [269] its legal name is Skegness with Winthorpe. [271] The parish forms part of the Skegness Group, which includes the parishes of Ingoldmells and Addlethorpe. [272] It is in the Calcewaithe and Candleshoe rural deanery in the archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln. [271] [273] [n 15]
The Village Church Farm, formerly known as Church Farm Museum, is an open-air museum of local and agricultural history near Skegness, Lincolnshire, England. [1]There are a number of traditional indigenous buildings, including a thatched "mud and stud" cottage, moved from the nearby village of Withern, the original 18th-century farmhouse, and a 19th-century stable block and cowshed.
It is situated approximately 2 miles (3 km) from the North Sea and Chapel St Leonards, and about 7 miles (11 km) north from Skegness. The A52 road runs through Hogsthorpe, connecting the village to the nearby resorts of Skegness, Mablethorpe and Ingoldmells. The parish includes the hamlets of Slackholme and Authorpe Row. [2]
Skegness itself lies at the eastern end of the A158 to Lincoln. The coast is served by the Grimsby branch of the Sheffield to Lincoln line, the Cleethorpes-Barton line, and the Grantham to Skegness line. There are railway stations at Barrow, Barton, Boston, Cleethorpes, Grimsby (docks and town), New Holland and Skegness.
It is situated approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) north from Skegness, and directly west of Winthorpe. [1] The area was developed in 1925, with the development of the Seathorne Estate. [2] By 1931, the town's population had reached 9,122. [3]
The Skegness camp contained all the standard Butlins entertainment ingredients: Butlins Redcoats, a funfair, a ballroom, a boating lake, tennis courts, a sports field (for the three legged and egg & spoon races and the donkey derby), table tennis and snooker tables, amusement arcades, a theatre, arcades of shops, a chairlift system and a ...