Saltfleet, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Saltfleet, a village in Lincolnshire, on the coast, 3 miles N from Saltfleetby station on the Louth and East Coast branch of the G.N.R., and 9½ ENE of Louth. It is in Skidbrook parish, bears the alternative name of Saltfleet Haven, is mentioned in Domesday as being a considerable market-town and an important port, and in the reign of Edward III. it furnished two ships and forty-nine men for the invasion of Brittany. The causes of the decline of Saltfleet as a port were the opening of the canal between Tetney and Louth, and the liability of the haven to be choked up with sand. It appears to have at some time been almost totally destroyed by invasion of the sea. Its market has long been obsolete, but it still has a fair for stock on 3 Oct. There are a coastguard station and Free Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.
Maps
Online maps of Saltfleet are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lincolnshire papers online: