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Scunthorpe
Sign in to saveScunthorpe () is an industrial town in Lincolnshire, England, and the county's third most populous settlement after Lincoln and Grimsby, with a population of 81,286 in 2021. It is the administrative centre and largest settlement of the North Lincolnshire district. Scunthorpe lies north of Lincoln and is between Grimsby to the east and Doncaster to the west, while Hull is to the north-east via the Humber Bridge.
Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Scunthorpe
- UK place.population
- 81,576
- UK place.population_ref
- (2021 Census)
- UK place.parts_type
- Areas of the town(2011 census BUASD)
- UK place.p1
- Ashby
- UK place.p2
- Bottesford (Town)
- UK place.p3
- Bottesford Moor
- UK place.p4
- Brumby
- UK place.p5
- Crosby
- UK place.p6
- Dragonby
- UK place.p7
- Frodingham
- UK place.p8
- High Santon
- UK place.p9
- Raventhorpe
- UK place.p10
- Yaddlethorpe
- UK place.unitary_england
- North Lincolnshire
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Lincolnshire
- UK place.region
- Yorkshire and the Humber
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Scunthorpe () is an industrial town in Lincolnshire, England, and the county's third most populous settlement after Lincoln and Grimsby, with a population of 81,286 in 2021. It is the administrative centre and largest settlement of the North Lincolnshire district. Scunthorpe lies north of Lincoln and is between Grimsby to the east and Doncaster to the west, while Hull is to the north-east via the Humber Bridge.
==Toponymy== The town appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as , which is from the Old Norse meaning "Skuma's homestead", a site which is believed to be in the town centre, close to Market Hill. Today Skuma’s homestead means ‘A secondary settlement, a dependent outlying farmstead or hamlet’.
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