Sandtoft, Lincolnshire

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Sandtoft
Location within Lincolnshire
OS grid reference SE746080
  London 150 mi (240 km)  S
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Postcode district DN8
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53°33′50″N0°52′27″W / 53.564010°N 0.874245°W / 53.564010; -0.874245

Sandtoft is a hamlet in the civil parish of Belton, North Lincolnshire, England.

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Sandtoft is in Hatfield Chase on the Isle of Axholme, 3 miles (5 km) north-west from Epworth. The village was served by the Isle of Axholme Joint Railway and was on the Fockerby branch with a goods station serving the former RAF airfield.

RAF Sandtoft was an RAF Bomber Command airfield. 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.

Sandtoft and nearby Epworth, Lincolnshire were centres of unrest during the 17th draining of The Fens. [1]

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Lincolnshire, abbreviated Lincs, is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber regions of England. It is bordered by the East Riding of Yorkshire across the Humber estuary to the north, the North Sea to the east, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and Rutland to the south, and Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire to the west. The county town is the city of Lincoln. Lincolnshire is the second largest county in England after North Yorkshire.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stockholes Turbary</span> Hamlet and reserve in North Lincolnshire, England

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">West Carr</span> Hamlet in North Lincolnshire, England

West Carr is a hamlet on the Isle of Axholme in the civil parish of Epworth, in North Lincolnshire unitary area of Lincolnshire, England. It is close to the former Sandtoft Airfield as well as the village of Sandtoft and the village of Westgate.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">West Carr Houses</span> Hamlet in North Lincolnshire, England

West Carr Houses is a hamlet on the Isle of Axholme in the civil parish of Epworth in North Lincolnshire unitary area of Lincolnshire, England. It is close to the former Sandtoft Airfield and the village of Sandtoft as well as the town of Epworth. It is notable for Lindholme Lakes Country Park.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Westgate, Lincolnshire</span> Hamlet in North Lincolnshire, England

Westgate is a hamlet on the Isle of Axholme in the parish of Belton in North Lincolnshire unitary area of Lincolnshire, England. It is close to the former Sandtoft Airfield and the village of Sandtoft as well as the town of Epworth. It is notable for the grade II listed Westgate Mill.

References

  1. James Boyce Imperial Mud: The Fight for the Fens, Icon Books, 2020.

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