Sandtoft

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Sandtoft
Lincolnshire
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The Reindeer Inn, Sandtoft
Location
Grid reference: SE746080
Location: 53°33’50"N, 0°52’27"W
Data
Post town: Doncaster
Postcode: DN8
Dialling code: 01724
Local Government
Council: North Lincolnshire
Parliamentary
constituency:
Brigg and Goole

Sandtoft is a hamlet in the civil parish of Belton in the Isle of Axholme, Lincolnshire.

Sandtoft is in Hatfield Chase three miles north-west from Epworth.

Sandtoft has a public house, The Reindeer Inn.[1]

RAF Sandtoft was an RAF Bomber Command airbase. It opened in April 1944, closed in November 1945 and was sold for civilian uses in 1955. Today part of the site is Sandtoft Airfield and The Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft, Europe's largest trolleybus museum, is on another part.

References

Further reading

  • Pevsner, Nikolaus; Harris, John (1964). Lincolnshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 190. 

Outside links

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Isle of Axholme

Althorpe  • Amcotts  • Beltoft  • Crowle  • Ealand  • Eastoft  • Epworth  • Garthorpe  • Haxey  • Keadby  • Luddington  • Owston Ferry  • Sandtoft  • West Butterwick  • Westwoodside  • Wroot

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