In which English county is the resort of Skegness?
Skegness Skegness Skegness ( ) is a seaside town and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, on the Lincolnshire coast of the North Sea, east of Lincoln. In the 2011 census Skegness civil parish had a population of 19,579. The worlds first Butlin's holiday resort opened in Skegness in 1936. Longshore drift carries particles of sediment southwards along the Lincolnshire coast; at Skegness, the sand settles out in banks which run at a slight angle to the coast. The slightly elevated dune land sheltered the small natural harbour which the Danes found behind the banks. The finer
Butlins Skegness the construction of 1,045 brand new accommodation units, making it the largest timber-frame construction project in Europe that year. At the same time, the company dropped its use of the possessive apostrophe, changing from Butlin's to Butlins; after the refurbishment the resort was renamed as Butlins Resort Skegness, as it remains to date. Today the resort caters for over 400,000 visitors per year with 350,000 being resident and 70,000 visiting for the day. Along with the nearby Fantasy Island amusement park, the resort is the largest employer in the Skegness area, and currently employs 1,200 staff each year, 40 of