Grimsby, Lincolnshire - Old Market Place & Corn Exchange - Library postcard

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• Picture / Image:  Old Market Place and Corn Exchange, Grimsby in the late 19th Century -[old image on more recent postcard]
• Publisher:  Humberside Libraries (c.1970s)
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Grimsby (or archaically Great Grimsby) is a large town and seaport situated on the South Bank of the Humber Estuary close to where it reaches the North Sea. The town was traditionally in the ceremonial county of Lincolnshire, until it was absorbed into the new county of Humberside in 1974. Since the abolition of Humberside in 1996, the town has served as the administrative centre of the North East Lincolnshire unitary authority.

The town was previously titled ""Great Grimsby"" to distinguish it from Little Grimsby, a village about 14 miles (22 km) to the south, near Louth. People from Grimsby are called Grimbarians;^[1] the term codhead (plural codheads) is also used jokingly or disparagingly, often with reference to Grimsby football supporters.^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

The town had a population of 87,574 in 2001.^[7] It is physically linked to and forms a conurbation with the adjoining town of Cleethorpes. Some 11,000 of its residents live in the village of Scartho, which was absorbed into Grimsby before 20th-century laws on the green belt were passed. All three areas come under the jurisdiction of the same unitary authority, North East Lincolnshire. It is close to the main terminus of the A180, which ends in Cleethorpes. 22 January is Great Grimsby Day.^[1]

The River Freshney rises to the west of the town, towards the A46. The A46 terminates near Grimsby in Cleethorpes at the junction with the A16 just north of Oasis Academy Wintringham.

There is some archeological evidence of a small town of Roman workers sited in the area in the second century. Located on the River Haven, which flowed into the Humber, this provided an ideal location for ships to shelter from approaching storms. It was also well situated to exploit the rich fishing grounds in the North Sea.

According to legend, Grimsby was first founded by Grim, a Danish fisherman.^[8] Grimsby was settled by Danes sometime in the 9th century AD. The name Grimsby originates from Grim's by, derived from the name Grim, the Danish ""Viking,"" and the suffix -by being the Old Norse word for village. The legendary founding of Grimsby is described in Lay of Havelock the Dane, but historians consider this account to be myth.

In Norse mythology, Grim (Mask) and Grimnir (Masked One) are names adopted by the deity Odin (Anglo-Saxon Woden) when travelling incognito amongst mortals, as in the short poem known as 'Grimnir's Sayings' (Grimnismal) in the Poetic Edda.^[9] The intended audience of the Havelock tale (recorded much later in the form of The Lay of Havelock the Dane) may have understood the fisherman Grim to be Odin in disguise. The Odinic name 'Grimr/Grim' occurs in many English placenames within the historical Danelaw and elsewhere in Britain, examples being the numerous earthworks named Grimsdyke.^[10] As other British placenames containing the element Grim are explained as referring to Woden/Odin (e.g. Grimsbury, Grimspound, Grime's Graves, Grimsditch, Grimsworne), Grimsby is likely to have the same derivation.

Grimsby is listed in the Domesday Book as having a population of around 200, a priest, a mill and a ferry.

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city/ region=grimsby

period=post-war (1945 - present)

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