Mablethorpe
Mablethorpe | |
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Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Areas of the town | List
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Post town | MABLETHORPE |
Postcode district | LN12 |
Dialling code | 01507 |
Police | Lincolnshire |
Fire | Lincolnshire |
Ambulance | East Midlands |
UK Parliament | |
Mablethorpe is a
The town was visited regularly by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, a 19th-century Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom. Some town features have been named after him, such as Tennyson Road and the now closed Tennyson High School.
History
Roman Empire
A hoard of Roman treasure was found in Mablethorpe in the 1980s, as were a Roman brooch and pottery.[5][6]
Mablethorpe Hall
Mablethorpe has existed as a town for many centuries, gaining its market town charter in 1253. Coastal erosion means some of it was lost to the sea in the 1540s. Records of the Fitzwilliam family of Mablethorpe Hall date back to the 14th century. In the 19th century, it was a centre for ship breaking in the winter. Mablethorpe Hall is to the west of the town along Alford Road near the Church of St Mary.[7] The Mablethorpe church parish includes Trusthorpe.
Town lifeboats
Mablethorpe's first
East Coast floods
In 1953, Mablethorpe was hit by the disastrous East Coast floods. The seawall was breached on 31 January. A granite rock memorial was unveiled on the coast on 31 January 2013 on the 60th anniversary of the disaster, in memory of the town's 42 victims.[9][10]
In literature
Mablethorpe is the destination for the fictional Morel family's first holiday in the still popular D. H. Lawrence novel, Sons and Lovers, published in 1913: "At last they got an answer from Mablethorpe, a cottage such as they wished for thirty shillings a week. There was immense jubilation. Paul was wild with joy for his mother's sake. She would have a real holiday now. He and she sat at evening picturing what it would be like. Annie came in, and Leonard, and Alice, and Kitty. There was wild rejoicing and anticipation. Paul told Miriam. She seemed to brood with joy over it. But the Morels' house rang with excitement."
Mablethorpe is the seaside setting for the Ted Lewis crime novel GBH, published in 1980.[11] The novel was his last and has been described as a "lost masterwork".[12]
Transport
Mablethorpe and much of east Lincolnshire lost its
Stagecoach operate an hourly service to Skegness, as well as a service to Louth and Lincoln. Grayscroft Coaches operates several services from a base in Victoria Road. Brylaine runs a service between Mablethorpe and Alford and Spilsby, usually every two hours.[14]
Lincolnshire County Council operates a demand-responsive CallConnect service linking remoter areas to connection points at Alford, Chapel St Leonards and Mablethorpe for mainline bus services.[15]
Geography
Mablethorpe, in the East Lindsey council district, is administered with Sutton-on-Sea and Trusthorpe as the
Commerce
The town's one retail bank branch, Barclays, closed in July 2019.[22] There are four supermarkets – a Co-op (which also includes a branch of Boyes), Lidl and from October 2021 the very first Tesco opened its doors. 'Lord Bros' an independent supermarket on Victoria Road has been open since the early 1960s. Branches of some high street chains are present, but most shops in Mablethorpe are independently operated. Market days vary through the year: Monday (Summer),Thursday (year round).
Leisure
Family attractions include a small
A Time and Tide Bell installed on the beach near the Seal Sanctuary in 2019 is one of a series around the UK, rung by high tides.[25][26]
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
Several small
Electric power
Just over a mile north-east of the town, near the Seal Sanctuary, was the now-closed
Media
The local weekly
Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire and ITV Yorkshire. Television signals are received from the Belmont TV transmitter. [29]
Education
The community's primary school is Mablethorpe Primary Academy School.
Events
Mablethorpe hosts a unique beach-hut festival each September.[33] Privately owned beach huts compete in outward design, amidst a backdrop of poetry, music, and drama.[34]
Mablethorpe has long hosted motorbike sand racing each winter and spring. This has inspired the Lincolnshire Bike Week, following the Mablethorpe and Sutton-on-Sea Bike Nights.[35]
Each summer Mablethorpe hosts an illuminations event (a "switch on"), for which a celebrity is invited. Those officiating have included Barbara Windsor, Timmy Mallett and Wolf and Hunter of Gladiators.
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Looking towards the fairground
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The seafront
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Kite buggyingon the town's beach
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Ye Olde Curiosity Museum
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The town's sand train, seen in the summer of 2007
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Assorted food stalls near the beach
References
- ISBN 978 0319238240
- A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 7 September 2023.
- ^ "Louth Registration District". UKBMD. Retrieved 7 September 2023.
- ^ City Pop site. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
- ^ "HeritageGateway - Home *". www.heritagegateway.org.uk. Retrieved 5 November 2022.
- ^ UK.[dead link]
- ^ St Mary's church geograph.org.uk
- ^ "Mablethorpe station history". RNLI. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
- ^ BBC News. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
- ^ Mablethorpe info. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
- ^ Powers, John (7 May 2015). "Gangsters, Goons And 'Grievous Bodily Harm' In Ted Lewis' London". NPR.org. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
- ^ About GBH, Penguin Random House. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
- ISBN 0-948555-14-9, pp. 38–39.
- ^ Grayscroft services. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
- ^ Mablethorpe Transport. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
- ^ A1104.
- ^ "Grange Leisure Park". Archived from the original on 23 December 2007.
- ^ "Geograph:: Earl's Bridge © Stephen Horncastle".
- ^ "Geograph:: West Bank © Stephen Horncastle".
- ^ "Geograph:: Trusthorpe Drains and the Wind Farm © Geoff Pick cc-by-sa/2.0".
- ^ "BBC NEWS – UK – England – Dorset – Bendiest roads in the UK revealed". 6 February 2006.
- ^ East Lindsey District Council site. Retrieved 07 October 2019.
- ^ "Geograph:: The train calling at platform 6 © Rog Frost".
- ^ "Geograph:: Tracks of the Sand Train, Mablethorpe © Tim Hallam cc-by-sa/2.0".
- ^ "The Mablethorpe Bell". Time and Tide Bell. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- ^ "Mablethorpe hosts the latest Time and Tide Bell for Lincolnshire". Transition Town Louth. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- ^ "Geograph:: Wind Farm near Mablethorpe © Ian Paterson".
- ^ "Louth Leader".
- ^ "Belmont (Lincolnshire, England) Full Freeview transmitter". May 2004.
- ^ Coastal FM.
- ^ Mablethorpe Community Primary School.
- ^ "Mablethorpe | CLIP". Archived from the original on 26 January 2018.
- ^ Bathing Beauties
- ^ "BBC NEWS – In Pictures – Picture Gallery: Mablethorpe huts". 22 September 2007.
- ^ Lincolnshire Bike Week homepage archived from the original on 4 August 2019. Retrieved 9 April 2022
Further reading
- Winston Kime, Mablethorpe and Sutton-on-Sea in Times Past, Skegness: C. H. Major & Co., 1990
- Alfred J. Ludlam, Louth, Mablethorpe and Willoughby Loop, Locomotion Papers, no. 162, Oxford: Oakwood Press, 1987
- Jeff Morris, The Story of the Mablethorpe and North Lincolnshire Lifeboats, Coventry: Lifeboat Enthusiasts' Society, 1989
- A. E. B. Owen, "Coastal Erosion in East Lincolnshire", The Lincolnshire Historian, vol. 1, no. 9, 1952, pp. 330–341
- A. E. B. Owen, "Salt, Sea Banks and Medieval Settlement on the Lindsey Coast", N. Field and A. White, eds, A Prospect of Lincolnshire, Lincoln: privately published, 1984, pp. 46–49
- A. E. B. Owen, "Mablethorpe St Peter's and the Sea", Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, vol. 21 (1986), pp. 61–62
- T. S. Patchett, The History of Mablethorpe County School, Mablethorpe: Mablethorpe County Primary School, 1968
- Simon Pawley, "Lincolnshire Coastal Villages and the Sea c. 1300–c. 1600: Economy and Society", PhD thesis, University of Leicester, 1984
- R. E. Pearson, "Railways in Relation to Resort Development in East Lincolnshire", East Midlands Geographer, vol. 4, 1968, pp. 281–295
- David N. Robinson, The Book of the Lincolnshire Seaside: The Story of the Coastline from the Humber to the Wash, Barracuda, 1981
- David N. Robinson, "The Changing Coastline", Dennis R. Mills (ed.), Twentieth Century Lincolnshire, History of Lincolnshire, no. 12, Lincoln: History of Lincolnshire Committee of the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, 1989, pp. 155–180
- Ruth N. Neller, The Growth of Mablethorpe as a Seaside Resort, 1800–1939, Mablethorpe: SBK Books, 2000
- Ruth N. Neller, "Skegness, Mablethorpe and Cleethorpes: contrasts of land ownership and investment in the development of seaside resorts", Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, vol. 47, 2012, pp. 35–47
- Sally Scott, "The early days of planning", Dennis R. Mills, ed., Twentieth Century Lincolnshire, History of Lincolnshire, no. 12, Lincoln: History of Lincolnshire Committee of the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, 1989, pp. 181–211
External links
Media related to Mablethorpe at Wikimedia Commons
- Mablethorpe's Town Website
- The largest public collection of Mablethorpe photos and information
- The Rotary Club of Alford and Mablethorpe
- Business and Events directory for Mablethorpe and surrounding areas
- Photo gallery for Mablethorpe, Trusthorpe, Sutton-On-Sea with images old and new
- Photos of Skegness, Mablethorpe, Chapel St. Leonards from the past to present day Archived 2 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine
- Visit Lincolnshire
- Mablethorpe and Sutton Town Council
- Mablethorpe Wind Farm
- Coastal Community Challenge