27-532: Kirmington is a village in North Lincolnshire , England. It is part of the civil parish of Kirmington and Croxton . From the 2011 census the village became a civil parish in its own name. Kirmington is situated just north from the A18 road , 5 miles (8 km) west from Immingham and 7 miles (11 km) east from Brigg . Less than 1 mile (1.6 km) to the west is Humberside International Airport ,
54-541: Is a unitary authority area with borough status in Lincolnshire , England. It borders the borough of North Lincolnshire and districts of West Lindsey and East Lindsey . The population of the district in the 2011 Census was 159,616. The administrative centre and largest settlement is Grimsby and the borough includes the towns of Cleethorpes and Immingham as well as the villages of New Waltham , Waltham , Humberston , Healing and Great Coates . The borough
81-528: Is a unitary authority area with borough status in Lincolnshire , England. At the 2011 Census , it had a population of 167,446. The administrative centre and largest settlement is Scunthorpe , and the borough also includes the towns of Brigg , Broughton , Haxey , Crowle , Epworth , Bottesford , Winterton , Kirton in Lindsey and Barton-upon-Humber . North Lincolnshire is part of the Yorkshire and
108-467: Is a few miles west of the town. The council is based at Grimsby Town Hall , which had been built in 1863 for the old borough council of Grimsby. The radio station for the area was called Compass FM , and took its logo from the logo of North East Lincolnshire, being based south of Grimsby railway station. It became part of Greatest Hits Radio in 2020. BBC Radio Humberside covers this area which broadcast from Kingston upon Hull . Grimsby Institute had
135-505: Is also home to the Port of Grimsby and Port of Immingham as well as Cleethorpes beach. North East Lincolnshire was created from the boroughs of Cleethorpes and Great Grimsby on 1 April 1996 with the abolition of Humberside . The area lies within the Parts of Lindsey , a historic subdivision of Lincolnshire. The district was awarded borough status on 23 August 1996, allowing the chair of
162-592: Is the Grimsby Institute . This offers a wide range of vocational courses and has links with the fishing industry. It offers higher education courses, and has done for many years - HNDs, for vocational subjects. It has the long-term ambition to become a university. The University of Humberside used to have its food science campus at the college, but removed this when it became the University of Lincoln . The following people and military units have received
189-546: Is the UK's largest port by tonnage, handling around 46 million tonnes per year. It has DFDS freight routes to Brevik , Cuxhaven , Esbjerg , Gothenburg , Rotterdam and Zeebrugge . The Port of Grimsby is a major car importation hub, along with being an offshore wind farm servicing hub. The local LEA has comprehensive schools, becoming comprehensive in the early 1970s when part of the County Borough of Grimsby , and
216-578: The Belmont TV transmitter. Radio stations for the area are BBC Radio Humberside , Hits Radio East Yorkshire & North Lincolnshire , Nation Radio East Yorkshire , and Greatest Hits Radio East Yorkshire & Northern Lincolnshire . Community based stations are Steel FM (for Scunthorpe ) and TMCR 95.3 (covering Epworth and Isle of Axholme ). 53°36′N 0°39′W / 53.60°N 0.65°W / 53.60; -0.65 North East Lincolnshire North East Lincolnshire
243-581: The Cleethorpes seat which includes the Barton area. This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of North and North East Lincolnshire at current basic prices published (pp. 240–253) by Office for National Statistics with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling. 2004 onwards published (pp. 139) in 2007 Eastern Airways has its head office in the Schiphol House on
270-744: The South Humber Bank Power Station , which is owned and operated by Centrica sited at Stallingborough. Similar to North Lincolnshire , the area has its fire and police run by Humberside Fire and Rescue Service and Humberside Police . There are four main roads that link to the unitary authority - the A180 (from the M180 ) which was built in 1984, and the A46 from Lincoln. The A46 terminates in Cleethorpes, previously terminating at
297-652: The 19th century, and extended, with additional facilities for pre-school children, in 2007. Kirmington is twinned with Terbregge, in the Netherlands. This relationship commemorates Operation Manna, in which planes from RAF Kirmington dropped 3,000 food parcels in April and May 1945. RAF Kirmington was a Class A airfield of the Second World War . Construction began in 1941, and the airfield was opened for use by Bomber Command in summer 1942. Closed in 1953, it
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#1732802413067324-457: The Humber region. The borough is mostly rural in character aside from near the town of Scunthorpe and near the Port of Immingham where most of the nearby villages and towns form part of the wider urban areas. North Lincolnshire was formed following the abolition of Humberside County Council in 1996, when four unitary authorities replaced it, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire , on
351-679: The Laceby roundabout, and follows the former route of the A18 through Grimsby and Cleethorpes. The A18 which runs from Doncaster to Laceby past the Humberside Airport. And the A16 from southern Lincolnshire through Louth, Entering the town at toll bar roundabout Waltham There are good connections by railway from Doncaster and Sheffield, which start at Manchester Airport - the TransPennine Express. The Port of Immingham
378-660: The Lindsey Education Committee, based in Lincoln. However, due to the proximity of West and East Lindsey which have grammar schools , some children capable of passing the eleven-plus are bussed over the border to places such as Caistor , Louth , and Alford . Previous to this Cleethorpes had girls' and boys' grammar schools, and Grimsby had the girls' and boys' (which joined in the late 1960s) Wintringham grammar schools. The local secondary schools have improved in recent years, but Grimsby still has some of
405-566: The council to take the title of mayor. The borough is located at the northeastern corner of Lincolnshire and opposite the East Riding of Yorkshire . It borders the Humber estuary. The area between Cleethorpes and Grimsby as well as the villages of Great Coates, Humberstone, New Waltham and Waltham form a large conurbation . Immingham is separated from the Grimsby urban area by the A180 and
432-506: The county of Humberside from 1974 to 1996. Humberside was abolished that year and those three districts merged to form the new unitary authority area of North Lincolnshire, as part of an expanded Lincolnshire ceremonial county . The area had previously been within the Lincolnshire administrative county before 1974 as a collection of municipal boroughs , urban districts , and rural districts . The new district of North Lincolnshire
459-582: The economic area known as Greater Grimsby. The main sectors of the Greater Grimsby economy are food and drink; ports and logistics; renewable energy and chemicals and process industries. This is a table of trend of regional gross value added of North and North East Lincolnshire at current basic prices publisher, (pp. 240–253) by the Office for National Statistics with figures in millions of British pounds sterling. The area has one power station,
486-482: The former Second World War station, RAF Kirmington. Kirmington's recorded population in the 2001 Census was 337, increasing to 365 in the 2011 Census. The village Grade II* listed Anglican church is dedicated to St Helena . The church is in Perpendicular and Decorated style, with chancel nave and vestry , and a 12th-century tower . In 1838 a wooden spire covered in copper was added. The church
513-708: The grounds of Humberside Airport in Kirmington , North Lincolnshire. Scunthorpe is the home of the British Steel owned Appleby-Frodingham steel plant, one of the largest and most successful plants in Europe. Port operations, green energy, logistics, agriculture and food processing are important elements of the areas employment profile. In terms of television, the area is covered by BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire which broadcast from Hull and ITV Yorkshire broadcasts from Leeds . Television signals are received from
540-596: The innovative Estuary TV (former Channel 7) television, based at the Grimsby Institute of Further & Higher Education . Propeller TV was also part of Grimsby Institute. The Grimsby Telegraph is a daily newspaper. The area is served by BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire and ITV1 Yorkshire , received from the Belmont transmitter. Until 1974 it formed part of the ITV Anglia region. The North East Lincolnshire towns of Grimsby , Immingham and Cleethorpes , form
567-667: The schools on the outer edge do much better. Franklin College has a good reputation at A level, and regularly produces the best A level results for state schools in the former area of Humberside (north and south). It was formed by the Humberside Education Committee, based in Beverly. Sixth formers travelled from East and West Lindsey to attend this college, such was its reputation. The main FE college in Grimsby
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#1732802413067594-577: The south bank of the Humber Estuary, and the East Riding of Yorkshire and Kingston upon Hull on the north bank. It is home to the Haxey Hood , a traditional event which takes place in Haxey on 6 January, a large football scrum where a leather tube (the "hood") is pushed to one of four pubs, where it remains until next year's game. The 846 km (327 sq mi) council area lies on
621-604: The south side of the Humber Estuary and consists mainly of agricultural land, including land on either side of the River Trent . It borders onto North East Lincolnshire , Lincolnshire, South Yorkshire , Nottinghamshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire . The council is based in Scunthorpe . The former districts of Glanford , Scunthorpe , and the southern part of Boothferry , were non-metropolitan districts of
648-497: The worst GCSE results in the country. There is a clear cut dichotomy of education up to 16, with schools on the edge of Grimsby and Cleethorpes performing with respectable results, leaving the centre of these towns with struggling schools that have faced closure. Most schools have converted to Academy status, with some also lucky enough to move into brand new spacious buildings. It is more the case that affluent parents would refuse to send their children to schools in central Grimsby, hence
675-630: Was restored in 1859 by Samuel Sanders Teulon , who rebuilt both aisles and re-roofed the nave. St Helena's is part of the Brocklesby Park Group of the Deanery of Yarborough. St Helena was the mother of the Roman Emperor Constantine . A Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built in 1835, rebuilt in 1885, and was closed in 1976. The village school is Kirmington St Helena's Church of England Primary school, built in
702-594: Was awarded borough status on 16 December 1996, allowing the chair of the council to take the title of mayor. The local authority is North Lincolnshire Council , based in at Church Square House in the centre of Scunthorpe. The area is represented in parliament by three MPs. At the 2010 election the Labour Party retained the Scunthorpe seat and the Conservative Party won the Brigg and Goole seat and
729-588: Was used for agricultural flying until being converted for commercial use by Lindsey County Council . Kirmington Transport cafe was built there, on the left side of the road as you left Kirmington - where the airport is today (2024) and run by Thomas Andrew of Barton-upon-Humber in the 1960s and early 1970s until it was bought to build the airport there. It opened as Humberside Airport in March 1974. Eastern Airways has its head office, Schiphol House, at Humberside Airport. North Lincolnshire North Lincolnshire
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