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Cleethorpes, coast township and vil. with ry. terminus, Clee par., N. Lincolnshire, 2¼ miles SE. of Great Grimsby, 1043 ac., pop. 2840; P.O., T.O., called Cleethorpe; a fine watering-place, prettily situated on a flat sandy beach at the mouth of the Humber, which is here about 7 miles wide.
(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))
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Feature Description: | "coastal township and village with railway terminus" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
Administrative units: | Clee CP Lincolnshire AncC |
Place names: | CLEETHORPE | CLEETHORPES |
Place: | Cleethorpes |
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