Grantham Grantham Grantham ( ) is a town 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 the A1 north–south trunk road. Grantham lies about south of the county town, the City of Lincoln and about east of Nottingham. The population in 2016 was put at 44,580 Grantham was the birthplace of the UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Isaac Newton was educated at its King's School, while Thomas Paine worked there as an excise officer in the 1790s. Grantham-born Edith Smith became the
Wold Newton, Lincolnshire 2009, the war memorial in Wold Newton was used by the constituency MP, Shona McIsaac, as evidence for the poor condition of Britain's war memorials. It was mentioned in the House of Commons and an article subsequently appeared in the "Telegraph". Wold Newton, East Riding of Yorkshire Wold Newton, Lincolnshire Wold Newton is a village and civil parish in North East Lincolnshire, England. It is situated just over west from the A18 road, north-west from Louth, and north-east from Market Rasen. Although archaeological evidence and analysis of place names indicates millennia of settlement within the current parish boundary, the etymology