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Population
  
543 (2011)

Region
  
East Midlands

Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Local time
  
Friday 10:18 PM

District
  
East Lindsey

OS grid reference
  
TF453939

Country
  
England

Post town
  
Louth

Shire county
  
Lincolnshire

UK parliament constituency
  
Louth and Horncastle

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Weather
  
12°C, Wind S at 24 km/h, 72% Humidity

Civil parish
  
Skidbrooke with Saltfleet Haven

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Saltfleet is a coastal village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately 8 miles (12.9 km) north from Mablethorpe and 11 miles (17.7 km) east from Louth.

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Map of Saltfleet, Louth, UK

The village is part of the civil parish of Skidbrooke with Saltfleet Haven, which had a population of 523 at the 2001 Census, increasing to 543 at the 2011 Census.

Saltfleet is set in countryside. It has a village store with adjoining cafe, a petrol station, a seasonal fish and chip shop, and three caravan sites.

Governance

An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward stretches south west to Little Carlton with a total population taken at the 2011 census of 2,066.

Landmarks

The parish church is a Grade I listed building, dedicated to Saint Botolph, dating from the 13th century. The font is 13th-century. There is a gravestone to a rector of the parish, who died in 1413, set in the chancel floor. The church is now redundant.

Saltfleet has a Grade II listed 19th-century windmill. There are two public houses; the New Inn is a Grade II listed building, dating from the 17th century, and The Crown Inn, which is over 200 years old.

Opposite the New Inn is the Manor House, built in 1673, a date referred to inscribed against the names of Robert Fox and Jane Hardy in a first floor room. Lincolnshire Life magazine published articles on the Manor House: in February 2008 in its Homes and Gardens page; in May 1970; and during the 1960s when it mentioned former occupants including the 1670s owner, Lord Willoughby, a friend of Oliver Cromwell.

Adjacent to the Manor House is a red brick Methodist chapel dating from 1815.

A listed limestone village pump was erected in 1899 in memory of F. A. Freshney who died from wounds inflicted while fighting in South Africa.

Nearby is Saltfleetby-Theddlethorpe Dunes National Nature Reserve.

References

Saltfleet Wikipedia