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King Street, Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire

Barton-upon-Humber

Barton-upon-Humber is a small town in northern Lincolnshire, standing on the south bank of the Humber, and at the end of the Humber Bridge. It is thirty-one miles north-northeast of the county town, Lincoln, and six miles southwest of Kingston upon Hull on the Yorkshire shore. Other nearby towns include Scunthorpe to the southwest and Grimsby to the southeast.

The town is famed for its ancient church, whose tower is a rare example of a surviving large Anglo-Saxon building. (Read more)