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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.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

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DistrictEast Lindsey
CountyLincolnshire
RegionEast Midlands
CountryEngland
Postal districtLN11
Post TownLouth

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