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Grantham is a market town in Lincolnshire, England. It is located 26 miles south of Lincoln, 24 miles west of Nottingham and 33 miles northeast of Leicester. The postcode is NG31 and the town has a population of approximately 35,000.
The name Grantham is probably derived form the Old English Granta Ham, meaning Granta’s village. However, in the Domesday Book of 1086 it already appears under its current name as Grantham. The town is located near an ancient Roman road and even older Late-Neolithic vessels were found in the area. During the English Civil War, Grantham was the scene of Oliver Cromwell’s first advantage over the Royalists and the place where Isaac Newton went to school. In 1896, UK’s first tractor was produced in the town and in 1914 it was the first English town to have female police officers. Grantham also became the birthplace of the former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1925.
Grantham lies 35 miles east of the East Midlands Airport where it is also connected to the M1 motorway from Leeds to London over Dewsbury, Wakefield, Barnsley, Rotherham, Sheffield, Chesterfield, Mansfield, Nottingham, Derby, Loughborough, Leicester, Rugby, Northampton, Milton Keynes, Luton, St Albans and Hemel Hempstead. Moreover, Grantham station is seviced by three different networks of the National Rail namely the East Midland Trains (linking London, Luton, Wellingborough, Kettering, Corby, Market Harborough, Leicester, Oakham, Stamford, Peterborough, March, Ely, Norwich, Thetford, Attleborough, Spalding, Sleaford, Boston, Skegness, Grantham, Lincoln, Market Rasen, Habrough, Barnetby, Gainsborough, Doncaster, Newark Castle, Worksop, Mansfield, Nottingham, Loughborough, Derby, Sheffield, Chesterfield, Alfreton, Matlock, Chinley, Stockport, Manchester, Uttoxeter, Stoke-on-Trent, Kidsgrove, Congleton, Macclesfield, Alsager, Crewe, Warrington and Liverpool), the East Coast line (connecting Inverness, Aviemore, Kingussie, Blair Atholl, Pitlochry, Perth, Gleneagles, Dunblane, Stirling, Aberdeen, Stonehaven, Mantrose, Arbroath, Dundee, Cupar, Kirkcaldy, Inverkeithing, Haymarket, Edinburgh, Motherwell, Glasgow, Dunbar, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Chathill, Alnmouth, Morpeth, Newcastle, Durham, Darlington, Northallerton, York, Leeds, Wakefield, Doncaster, Retford, Grantham, Peterborough and London) and the First Hull Trains (connecting Hull, Brough, Selby, Doncaster, Retford, Newark, Peterborough, Stevenage and London).
The main attraction in Grantham is the parish church of