Seacroft, Lincolnshire

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Seacroft is a linear settlement in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies at the south of, and is conjoined to, Skegness, and comprises the less than half-mile long residential road, Seacroft Esplanade, and a golf course at its south. Farther south is Gibraltar Point nature reserve.

There was once a Seacroft railway station on the line between Boston and Skegness, [1] just over 1 mile (1.6 km) to the west.

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References

  1. British Railways Atlas.1947. p.17

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