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Louth, Lincolnshire Louth is a market town of Lindsey, Lincolnshire. It is known as "the capital of the Lincolnshire Wolds". The town grew up where the ancient trackway Barton Street crosses the River Lud. The Greenwich Meridian crosses Eastgate and this point is marked with a plaque on the north side of the street, just east of the junction with Northgate. Louth was the site of important monastery from Anglo-Saxon times, founded in the late 7th century. The monastery was destroyed by the invading Danes in the 9th century. By the 10th or early 11th century, Louth had grown into a small market town. In the early modern period, Louth became wealthy through the wool trade. (Read more)