GAINSBOROUGH | Tour of Gainsborough Town Centre, Lincolnshire [Plus Riverside Walk!]

GAINSBOROUGH | In todays full tour of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire we have a look around this market town and head to Gainsborough Old Hall, The Riverside Walk and the Town Centre streets to see what's here. Also watch Grantham -    • GRANTHAM | A walking tour of the beau...  

So we head into deepest Lincolnshire for a look around Gainsborough, a quiet little market town that is situated 18 miles (29 km) north-west of Lincoln, 16 miles (26 km) south-west of Scunthorpe, 20 miles south-east of Doncaster and 39 miles (63 km) east of Sheffield.

Gainsborough is also England's furthest inland port at over 55 miles from the North Sea!

Noteable and famous people from Gainsborough include actor Dame Sybil Thorndike, actor John Alderton and Bill Podmore the TV producer of Coronation Street

Back in July 1958, BP discovered oil at Corringham, then at Gainsborough in January 1959! Am surprised JR Ewing didn't move in with Sue Ellen and take it all over 🤣

Gainsborough was capital of England and Denmark!!
Historically, Gainsborough is the "capital that never was." Towards the end of July 1013, the Dane Sweyn Forkbeard and his son and heir Cnut (Canute) arrived in Gainsborough with an army of conquest. Sweyn defeated the Anglo-Saxon opposition and King Ethelred fled the country. Sweyn was declared King of England and returned to Gainsborough. Sweyn and Cnut took up high office at the Gainsborough Castle on the site of the present-day Old Hall, while his army occupied the camp at Thonock (now known as Castle Hills). However, Sweyn died, or perhaps was killed five weeks later in Gainsborough. His son Cnut established a base elsewhere. So Gainsborough was named as capital of England and of Denmark for five weeks in the year 1013!

Gainsborough Town Council was established in 1992, and in the same year Gainsborough's first mayor was appointed.

Beside Riverside Walk are Whitton's Mill flats, which won a Royal Town Planning Institute award for the East Midlands. Marshall's Yard also received an award, for regeneration.

West Lindsey District Council had its offices at the Guildhall, Lord Street, but moved in January 2008 to a £4.3 million new-build in Marshall's Yard.

Silver Street is home to many Gainsborough shops. Elswitha Hall is the birthplace of Halford John Mackinder, founder of the Geographical Association.

A water tower in Heapham Road was built in 1897 to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria.

Gainsborough Town Hall, which was built in 1892, is now an entertainment venue with seating for up to 150 people

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