North East Lincolnshire | |
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| North East Lincs/Greater Grimsby | |
    
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| Coordinates:53°33′N0°06′W / 53.55°N 0.10°W /53.55; -0.10 | |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Constituent country | England |
| Region | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| Ceremonial county | Lincolnshire |
| Founded | 1996 |
| Admin. HQ | Grimsby |
| Towns and large villages of the borough (2021 census BUASD) | |
| Government | |
| • Type | North East Lincolnshire Council |
| • Leadership: | Leader & Cabinet |
| • Executive: | No overall control |
| • MPs: | Martin Vickers(Conservative) Melanie Onn(Labour) |
| Area | |
• Total | 75 sq mi (193 km2) |
| • Rank | 149th |
| Population (2024) | |
• Total | 159,911 |
| • Rank | Ranked 137th |
| • Density | 2,150/sq mi (829/km2) |
| Ethnicity(2021) | |
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| Religion(2021) | |
| • Religion | List
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| Time zone | UTC+0 (Greenwich Mean Time) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+1 (British Summer Time) |
| Postcode | |
| ISO 3166-2 | GB-NEL |
| ONS code | 00FC (ONS) E06000012 (GSS) |
| Website | nelincs |
North East Lincolnshire is aunitary authority area withborough status inLincolnshire, England. It borders the borough ofNorth Lincolnshire and districts ofWest Lindsey andEast Lindsey. The population of the district in the 2011 Census was 159,616.[2] The administrative centre and largest settlement isGrimsby and the borough includes the towns ofCleethorpes andImmingham as well as the villages ofNew Waltham,Waltham,Humberston,Healing andGreat Coates. The borough is also home to thePort of Grimsby andPort of Immingham as well as Cleethorpes beach.
North East Lincolnshire was created from the boroughs ofCleethorpes andGreat Grimsby on 1 April 1996 with the abolition ofHumberside. The area lies within theParts of Lindsey, a historic subdivision of Lincolnshire. The district was awardedborough status on 23 August 1996, allowing the chair of the council to take the title of mayor.[3]
The borough is located at the northeastern corner of Lincolnshire and opposite theEast Riding of Yorkshire. It borders theHumber estuary. The area between Cleethorpes and Grimsby as well as the villages of Great Coates, Humberston, New Waltham and Waltham form a largeconurbation. Immingham is separated from the Grimsby urban area by the A180 and is a few miles west of the town.
The council is based atGrimsby Town Hall, which had been built in 1863 for the old borough council of Grimsby.[4]
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The radio station for the area was calledCompass FM, and took its logo from the logo of North East Lincolnshire, being based south of Grimsby railway station. It became part ofGreatest Hits Radio in 2020.BBC Radio Humberside covers this area which broadcast fromKingston upon Hull. Grimsby Institute had the innovativeEstuary TV (former Channel 7) television, based at theGrimsby Institute of Further & Higher Education.Propeller TV was also part of Grimsby Institute. TheGrimsby Telegraph is a daily newspaper. The area is served byBBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire andITV1 Yorkshire, received from theBelmont transmitter. Until 1974 it formed part of theITV Anglia region.
The North East Lincolnshire towns ofGrimsby,Immingham andCleethorpes, form 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 regionalgross value added of North and North East Lincolnshire at current basic prices publisher,[5] (pp. 240–253) by theOffice for National Statistics with figures in millions of British pounds sterling.
| Year | Regional Gross Value Added[6] | Agriculture[7] | Industry[8] | Services[9] |
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| 1995 | 3,512 | 82 | 1,701 | 1,729 |
| 2000 | 3,861 | 60 | 1,805 | 1,997 |
| 2003 | 4,569 | 62 | 1,896 | 2,611 |
The area has one power station, theSouth Humber Bank Power Station, which is owned and operated byCentrica sited at Stallingborough.
Similar toNorth Lincolnshire, the area has its fire and police run byHumberside Fire and Rescue Service andHumberside Police.
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There are four main roads that link to the unitary authority - the A180 (from theM180) which was built in 1984, and theA46 from Lincoln. The A46 terminates in Cleethorpes, previously terminating at the Laceby roundabout, and follows the former route of theA18 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 atManchester Airport - the TransPennine Express.
ThePort of Immingham is the UK's largest port by tonnage, handling around 46 million tonnes per year.[10] It hasDFDS freight routes toBrevik,Cuxhaven,Esbjerg,Gothenburg,Rotterdam andZeebrugge.[11] ThePort of Grimsby is a major car importation hub, along with being anoffshore wind farm servicing hub.
The local LEA has comprehensive schools, becoming comprehensive in the early 1970s when part of theCounty Borough of Grimsby, and the Lindsey Education Committee, based in Lincoln. However, due to the proximity ofWest andEast Lindsey which havegrammar schools, some children capable of passing the eleven-plus are bussed over the border to places such asCaistor,Louth, andAlford. 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 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 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 ofHumberside (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 is theGrimsby 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. TheUniversity of Humberside used to have its food science campus at the college, but removed this when it became theUniversity of Lincoln.
The following people and military units have received theFreedom of the Borough of North East Lincolnshire.
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