Louth

Louth is a market town and common ward in the East Lindsey region of Lincolnshire, England. Louth is the chief town and community for an extensive country region of eastern Lincolnshire. Guest attractions incorporate St. James' Church, Hubbard's Hills, the market, numerous free retailers and Lincolnshire's final steers advertise. Three handaxes have been found on the wolds encompassing Louth, dating from somewhere in the range of 424,000 and 191,000 years prior, showing inhabitation in Paleolithic era.

Bronze Age archeological finds incorporate a 'spiked and tanged' pointed stone found in the grounds of Monks' Dyke Tennyson College. St Helen's Spring, at the Gatherums, off Aswell Street, is devoted to a mainstream medieval holy person, the mother of Constantine the Great, the principal Roman Emperor to end up a Christian, however is believed to be a Christianised Romano-British site for love of the agnostic water-goddess Alauna.

The Anglo-Saxon agnostic graveyard, northwest of Louth, dates from the fifth to 6th hundreds of years, and was first exhumed in 1946. With an expected 1200 urn internments it is one of the biggest Anglo-Saxon incineration burial grounds in England. Ethelhard, a Bishop of Winchester who was made Archbishop of Canterbury in 793, was an abbot of Louth in his initial life. Louth is recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book as a town of 124 households. Louth Park Abbey was established in 1139 by the Bishop Alexander of Lincoln as a little girl place of the Cistercian Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire.