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Natureland is a seal sanctuary, with a seal hospital, a small zoo, tropical glasshouses (known as the 'Floral Palace') and an aquarium. [1] Animals include seals, African penguins, crocodiles, goats, tarantulas, snakes, terrapins, scorpions, as well as tropical butterflies and birds.
Today the resort caters for over 400,000 visitors per year with 350,000 being resident and 70,000 visiting for the day. [web 1] Along with the nearby Fantasy Island amusement park, the resort is the largest employer in the Skegness area, [web 10] and currently employs 1,200 staff each year, 40 of which make up the Redcoat team.
Skegness became an urban district in 1894, [3] and meetings were held at 23 Algitha Road until 1920, when the authority purchased the Earl of Scarbrough's estate office at Roman Bank for £3,000 and used it as offices. This building burned down on 11 January 1928 and a new town hall, built on the site of the burnt-out offices, opened in 1931.
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Skegness was an Urban District in Parts of Lindsey, Lincolnshire, England from 1894 to 1974. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was created under the Local Government Act 1894 . It was enlarged in 1926 when the Winthorpe civil parish was transferred to the district.
Skegness (/ ˌ s k ɛ ɡ ˈ n ɛ s / skeg-NESS) is a seaside town and civil parish in the East Lindsey District of Lincolnshire, England. On the Lincolnshire coast of the North Sea, the town is 43 miles (69 km) east of Lincoln and 22 miles (35 km) north-east of Boston. With a population of 21,128 as of 2021, it is the largest settlement in East ...
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.
Skegness was dubbed "the Blackpool of the East Coast" or "Nottingham by the Sea". It has a mascot, the Jolly Fisherman , designed by John Hassall in 1908 for the Great Northern Railway ; its slogan, "Skegness is so bracing", is a reference to the chilly prevailing north-easterly winds that can and frequently do blow off the North Sea . [ 3 ]