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About Grantham

Grantham is a metropolis in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It straddles the London–Edinburgh East Coast Main Line and the River Witham and is bounded to the west by way of the A1 north–south trunk avenue. Grantham lies approximately 37 km south of the county town, the City of Lincoln and approximately 35 km east of Nottingham. The population in 2016 turned into positioned at 44,580. Grantham become the birthplace of the United Kingdom Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

Isaac Newton became knowledgeable at its King's School, at the same time as Thomas Paine worked there as an excise officer in the 1790s. Grantham-born Edith Smith have become the United Kingdom's first woman police officer in 1914. The metropolis produced the first walking diesel engine in 1892 and the UK's first tractor in 1896. The convention and hospitality industry are nicely represented in the Grantham area, with the Ramada Resort in Marston, the De Vere Belton Woods Hotel, the Urban Leisure Hotel former Marriott and numerous golf clubs.

Quotation needed Stoke Rochford Hall gained the Les Routiers Wedding Venue of the Year in 2011. The Griffin Inn at Irnham received the 2012 Les Routiers B&B of the Year Award. He Grantham Parade and the Grantham Festival take area every 12 months. There became an annual pig force through the centre of the metropolis until 1962. Too dangerous; this subculture dated again to 1755, when pig farmers from the vicinity moved pigs to greener pastures. Quotation wanted Previously, the once a year Kesteven Schools' Speech and Drama Festival was held within the metropolis.

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