Sandtoft
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
("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Sandtoft) |
Isle of Axholme |
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Althorpe • Amcotts • Beltoft • Crowle • Ealand • Eastoft • Epworth • Garthorpe • Haxey • Keadby • Luddington • Owston Ferry • Sandtoft • West Butterwick • Westwoodside • Wroot |
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