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This is Lincolnshire

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  • Lincolnshire is the fourth largest county in England covering an area of over 6,000 square kilometres with a population of 673,530 of which 149,156 are under the age of 18. (Approximately 22%).
  • The main centres of population are Lincoln (86,000) and Boston (56,000), with the remainder of the population being widely dispersed and 26% living in a village or hamlet setting where communication links by bus or train are often very difficult.
  • The county has 379 schools. Of these over 100 have less than 100 pupils and the average number in secondary education is 720, with rural areas being much smaller on average.
  • The Youth Justice Board figures for Youth Offending show that 41.3 offences were committed per 1000 children and young people aged 10-17 years.

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  • Edward I held the first parliament in Lincoln Cathedral and Richard III also held a parliament in the choir stalls.
  • King Henry VIII met his sixth wife, Catherine Parr at Gainsborough in 1540.
  • Newport Arch in Lincoln is the only Roman arch in the country still used by traffic.
  • Lincoln's Norman Castle was built by William the Conqueror in 1068. In the 18th century
  • Scampton is the home to the Red Arrows, the famous RAF Aerobatic Team.
  • Alkborough still has its medieval turf maze, Julian's Bower.
  • Bernie Taupin, songwriter to Elton John, comes from Market Rasen.
  • Some grand Lincolnshire houses and locations have featured in films: The Haunting (1999, Belvoir Castle and Harlaxton Manor), Middlemarch (1994, Stamford), The Fortunes & Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1966, Grimsthorpe Castle and Burghley), Pride & Prejudice (1995, Belton House), Possession (2002, Lincoln University, Station, Eastgate), Da Vinci Code (Lincoln Cathedral)
  • The first military tank was designed and built in Lincoln.
  • Scenes from Raiders of the Lost Ark were filmed in Margaret Thatcher's old school.
  • At Woolsthorpe near Grantham, Isaac Newton watched an apple fall to the ground and began to realise the law of gravity.
  • The first female police officer, the first woman Prime Minister and the worlds first Diesel engine all came from Grantham.
  • The first British conservatory was built at Burghley House near Stamford and was used to cultivate the UK's first tomatoes.