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|name=Waltham<br />
|county=Lincolnshire<br />
|picture=Waltham - geograph.org.uk - 216508.jpg<br />
|picture caption=Waltham Village<br />
|os grid ref=TA259038<br />
|latitude=53.516483<br />
|longitude=-0.102071<br />
|population=6,420<br />
|census year=2001<br />
|post town=Grimsby<br />
|postcode=DN37<br />
|dialling code=<br />
|LG district=North East Lincolnshire <br />
|constituency=Cleethorpes<br />
}}<br />
'''Waltham''' is a village in [[Lincolnshire]]. It is four miles southwest of [[Grimsby]] and to the villages of [[Scartho]], [[Brigsley]], [[Barnoldby-le-Beck]], and [[Bradley, Lincolnshire|Bradley]]. Less than two miles to the northeast is the village of [[New Waltham]]. According to the 2001 Census, Waltham had a population of 6,420. <br />
==History==<br />
[[File:All Saints, Waltham - geograph.org.uk - 105795.jpg|left|thumb|200px|All Saints, Waltham]]<br />
There was a substantial Anglo-Saxon settlement on the site of the first village although artefacts show earlier Roman occupation. The name of Waltham name is of Old English origin, apparently in this case from ''weald'' referring to woodland.<br />
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Elizabeth Shaw, a centenarian who lived to age 117, was born 22 April 1683 at Waltham. A life portrait of her by R. Sheardown was published in 1800.<ref>[http://catalogue.wellcome.ac.uk/search~S5/o?SEARCH=1814i&searchscope=5&submit.x=30&submit.y=2 Wellcome Library, London, no. 1814i]</ref><br />
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==Sights about the village==<br />
[[File:Waltham Mill.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Waltham Mill]]<br />
Waltham's landmarks include Waltham Windmill, which is used as the symbol for the village's Infant and Junior schools. The windmill was originally built in 1666,<ref>[http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bazzer3/HISTORYx.html " Waltham local history and village churches"]</ref> but was blown down several times. It was last re-built in 1873.<ref>[http://www.walthamwindmill.co.uk/page2.html "A Little History"], walthamwindmill.co.uk</ref><br />
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The village has three public houses, The Kings Head, the Tilted Barrel and the Tea Gardens. A branch of the Royal British Legion is also based in Waltham.<br />
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Nearby is the former Second World War bomber airfield RAF Grimsby,<ref>[http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bazzer3/INFOx.html "Bits of info for you"]</ref> which was originally Grimsby Municipal Airport. After the start of the Second World War the airport was re-constructed by the Air Ministry and became home to 142 Squadron, and later to 100 and 550 Squadrons, before closing in 1945. A museum at the Waltham Windmill houses a section dedicated to RAF Grimsby.<br />
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There was once a Waltham railway station on a line now closed between [[Grimsby]] and [[Louth, Lincolnshire|Louth]].<ref>British Railways Atlas 1947, p. 17</ref><br />
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