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51-645: North Lindsey College is a further education college in Scunthorpe , North Lincolnshire , England, situated on the A18 . North Lindsey College is an associate college of the University of Lincoln providing a range of further education and higher education courses. The college comprises 69 departments and occupies an area of 23 acres (93,000 m). It has two local centres in Ashby and Barton . College funding decisions are made by

102-503: A Safeway ) have their store on the site of the old Scunthorpe United stadium, The Old Show Ground. Morrisons have a store at the bottom of Mortal Ash Hill (known locally as "Motlash") ( A18 road ) at the Lakeside Retail Park, on the eastern entrance to the town, while Asda have a store on Burringham Road. In 2011 Asda opened another store in the former Netto, on Carlton Street. On 24 October 2014 Marks and Spencer's returned to

153-638: A municipal borough in 1936. Scunthorpe was originally dominated, socially, politically and culturally, by Rowland Winn , the most significant landowner in the district. By the First World War local working class culture, drawing on trade unions and the Labour Party had emerged to challenge the Conservative Party's hegemony. The town appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Escumesthorpe , which

204-596: A magnitude of 5.2. Significant shocks were felt in Scunthorpe and the North Lincolnshire vicinity. The main 10-second quake, which struck at 00:56 GMT on 27 February 2008, at a depth of 9.6 mi (15.4 km), was second only to a 1984 quake, with a magnitude of 5.4, in North Wales . Scunthorpe forms an unparished area located within the borough and unitary authority of North Lincolnshire . The town forms six of

255-457: A new Marks and Spencer store opened near the football ground in 2014. However the size of the remaining retail units reflects the size of the area's population and with larger shopping facilities within reasonable travelling distance in Grimsby , Hull , Doncaster , Lincoln , Leeds and at Meadowhall , Sheffield . The once-thriving market, mostly under cover in market halls just to the north of

306-449: A number of games for the club, being a resident of nearby Epworth at that time and in an attempt to keep fit during the winter months. The team mascot is called the "Scunny Bunny". Semi-professional sides within the Town or greater town boundaries include Appleby Frodingham and Bottesford Town . Local teams play in the Scunthorpe & District Football League . Lias Group Lias

357-560: A period of c. 20 million years between 200 to 180 million years ago ) and thus also includes a part of the Triassic . The use of the name "Lias" for a unit of time is therefore slowly disappearing. In southern England , the Lias Group is often divided into Lower, Middle and Upper subgroups. In Southern England the Lias is divided into the following formations (from top to base): In

408-567: A single site: the Foundry Shopping Centre and the Parishes Centre. The former was constructed in the late 1960s/early 1970s during a wholesale reconstruction of the old town; the latter was constructed in the early part of the 2000s decade on the site of the town's old bus station. There are also many well known retailers on High Street. On 6 January 2011 Marks and Spencer closed their High Street store after 80 years of trading, but

459-473: Is a Middle English term for hard limestone, used in this specific sense by geologists since 1833. In the past, geologists used Lias not only for the sequence of rock layers, but also for the timespan during which they were formed. It was thus an alternative name for the Early Jurassic epoch of the geologic timescale . It is now more specifically known that the Lias is Rhaetian to Toarcian in age (over

510-526: Is from the Old Norse Skumasþorp meaning "Skuma's homestead", a site which is believed to be in the town centre, close to Market Hill. Scunthorpe is located close to an outcrop of high-lime-content ironstone (~25% iron average) from a seam of the Lias Group strata which dates from the Early Jurassic period and runs north–south through Lincolnshire. Ironstone was mined by open cast methods from

561-556: Is on Oswald Road, near the railway station . The former church of St John the Evangelist is now the 20–21 Visual Arts Centre. The Plowright Theatre , named after Joan Plowright , is on Laneham Street (off the west end of High Street and also near the railway station ). It was built in 1958 as Scunthorpe Civic Theatre. The Baths Hall , reopened in 2011, a 1,700 capacity venue also hosts visiting musical and theatrical events. The Scunthorpe Co-operative Junior Choir from Scunthorpe won

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612-421: Is on West Common Lane and North Lindsey College is close by on Kingsway (A18). Scunthorpe's only university is UCNL, which offers undergraduate courses to approximately 1,500 students. There are three schools within this category: St Luke's Primary School; St Hugh's Special School; and Trent View College (which is yet to be inspected) The area is served by Humberside Police . According to Home Office data

663-507: Is serviced by two train companies, TransPennine Express and Northern Trains . TransPennine Express eastbound trains to Cleethorpes call at platform 1, whilst TransPennine Express westbound services to Liverpool Lime Street and the Northern westbound stopping service to Doncaster use platform 2. The M180 passes five miles (8.0 km) south of Scunthorpe and connects to the town via the M181 and

714-642: Is situated at the terminus of the M181 , 42 miles (68 km) from Sheffield . Nearby towns and cities are Hull (18 miles northeast), Doncaster (20 miles west), Grimsby (22 miles east) and York (46 miles northwest). Scunthorpe is approximately 10 miles (16 km) east of South Yorkshire and 8 miles (13 km) south by south west to the East Riding of Yorkshire . Like most of the United Kingdom, Scunthorpe has an oceanic climate ( Köppen : Cfb). Average temperatures are around 20 °C (68 °F) in

765-415: The 2021 Census , Scunthorpe had a population of 81,286, while the urban area had a slightly larger population of 84,665 and this extends to the nearby village of Messingham , to the south of the town. At the 2021 Census, the local population was recorded at 90.4% White British , followed by 6% British Asian , 1.4% Mixed-race British , 1.2% Other ethnic minorities and 0.8% Black British . This makes

816-587: The A1077M . Before the M180 was opened in 1979, all east–west traffic took the A18 over Keadby Bridge . Humberside Airport is a short drive to the east along the M180. The town's bus station is off Fenton Street. The bus station is predominantly used by Stagecoach in Lincolnshire that operate services within and out of the town along with Hornsby Travel. East Yorkshire operate services to Hull and Goole . According to

867-622: The Appleby-Frodingham Steel Company , part of the United Steel Companies ; the Redbourn Iron Works , part of Richard Thomas and Company of South Wales (later Richard Thomas and Baldwins ); and John Lysaght 's Normanby Iron Works , part of Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds . In 1967 all three works became part of the nationalised British Steel Corporation (BSC), leading to a period of further consolidation – from

918-676: The English Football League . At the end of the 2006–07 season they won promotion to the Football League Championship as champions of League One , with 3 games to spare, when they defeated Huddersfield Town at home. They amassed a total of 91 points, and never trailed from January on, despite being outsiders earlier in the season. The last time they had played in the second division was for 44 years previously. The club were relegated on 12 April 2008, with three games to spare, away to Crystal Palace . However, they returned to

969-477: The Humber Bridge on 24 June 1981 provided a permanent link between North and South Humberside but did not secure Humberside's future. To the relief of its many detractors, the county of Humberside (and Humberside County Council ) was abolished on 1 April 1996 and succeeded by four unitary authorities . The previous Humberside districts of Glanford and Scunthorpe, and that part of Boothferry district south of

1020-526: The Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph ) with an online version at www.scunthorpetelegraph.co.uk . Scunthorpe has a leisure centre ( The Pods ) next to Pittwood House, museum, galleries, craft centres, several clubs, pubs and bars, a Vue multiplex cinema adjacent to the bus station. The Baths Hall in Doncaster Road was a popular music venue, before it was closed because of the costs of bringing

1071-523: The Train to Gain scheme. They also offer BA (Hons) degrees. Scunthorpe Scunthorpe ( / ˈ s k ʌ n θ ɔːr p / ) is an industrial town in the North Lincolnshire district of Lincolnshire , England. It is Lincolnshire's third most populous settlement, after Lincoln and Grimsby , with a population of 81,286 in 2021. Scunthorpe as a town came into existence due to the exploitation of

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1122-471: The parishes of Crosby and Ashby in 1919 to form an enlarged Scunthorpe urban district. Scunthorpe received a charter incorporating the town as a municipal borough in 1936. Local authority boundary changes brought the town into the new county of Humberside in 1974, and a new non-metropolitan district , the Borough of Scunthorpe was formed with the same boundaries as the old municipal borough. The opening of

1173-508: The 1850s onwards, and by underground mining from the late 1930s. In the 1970s the steel industry in Scunthorpe began to use of ores imported from outside the UK with higher iron content. Underground mining in the area ceased in 1981. Scunthorpe was close to the epicentre (at Middle Rasen ) of the 2008 Market Rasen earthquake , the second largest earthquake experienced in the British Isles, which had

1224-647: The 1970s the use of local or regional ironstone diminished, being replaced by imported ore via the Immingham Bulk Terminal . Conversion to the Linz-Donawitz process (or "basic oxygen" process) of steel making from the open hearth process took place from the late 1960s onwards and was complete by the 1990s. Both the Normanby Park and the Redbourn works closed in the early 1980s. Following privatisation in 1988

1275-570: The Central Library, at the eastern end of the High Street, had shrunk noticeably in the last ten years, and has now moved to the new St John's Market, close to the Bus Station. The opening date was 22 March 2019. All of the big food retailers are represented in the area. There is a Tesco Extra , and an Aldi (in the former Toys R Us unit) opposite the football ground, while Sainsbury's (formerly

1326-883: The Championship after one season, winning the League One playoffs in May 2009. At the end of the 2021–22 season, Scunthorpe for the first time got relegated from the Football League . A further relegation in the 2022–23 season consigned Scunthorpe United to the National League North. England stars Kevin Keegan and Ray Clemence both played for Scunthorpe United in the early 1970s before signing for Liverpool , where they made their names. Former England cricket captain Ian Botham played

1377-628: The Cleveland Basin. In some areas there is a stratigraphic hiatus , and the rocks are overlain by Cretaceous marine sediments. There are restricted outcrops of Lias rocks on the west coast of Scotland where, in the Sea of the Hebrides depositional basin on Skye , Raasay and Mull , the Broadford Beds Formation , Pabay Shale Formation and overlying Scalpay Sandstone Formation are assigned to

1428-836: The East Midlands Shelf the Lias is divided into the following formations (from top to base): In the Cleveland Basin in Yorkshire the Lias is divided into the following formations (from top to base): In South Wales only the Blue Lias is present. The Lias is underlain by the Late Triassic Penarth Group , and overlain by the Inferior Oolite in most of England and the Dogger Formation or Ravenscar Group in

1479-580: The Foxhills Industrial Park, north of the A1077 northern bypass, are many distribution companies, notably a large building owned by the Nisa co-operative type mutual organisation which has its UK headquarters there. Also on the Foxhills Industrial Park is a 500,000 square foot factory occupied by Wren Kitchens , employing 350 full-time workers. 2 Sisters Food Group have a large chicken processing plant in

1530-627: The Trent. The surrounding environs are largely low-lying hills and plains. Although the town itself is heavily industrial it is surrounded by fertile farmland and wooded areas. In terms of general location it lies a mile east of the River Trent , 8 miles (13 km) south of the Humber Estuary , 15 miles (24 km) west of the Lincolnshire Wolds and 25 miles (40 km) north of Lincoln . The town

1581-745: The Yorkshire and the Humber Learning and Skills Council in Bradford . Construction started on Tuesday 27 March 1951, with 23 acres. The college was established on Thursday 1 October 1953 as North Lindsey Technical College . Its main building opened in 1964. In 1971 the college became the North Lindsey College of Technology – at that time it was run by Lindsey Education Committee (based in Lincoln ). Humberside Education Committee in Beverley took over

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1632-418: The administration of the college in 1974. At that stage it had five departments: A college library was built in 1978, and a refectory in 1980. An art and design department opened in 1987. In 1989 it became North Lindsey College. The college logo was designed by local graphic designer and tutor in the art and design department Carole Van Hoffelen and featured a framed 'S' made from 5 parallel lines, symbolic of

1683-400: The area has crime rates higher than the national average, especially in the categories of violence against the person, sexual offences, burglary and theft of motor vehicles. The town has a former Football League club, Scunthorpe United (nicknamed "The Iron") who play at Glanford Park . For most of its existence in the professional game (since only 1950) it has been in the lower leagues of

1734-436: The area iron production in the area rapidly expanded using local ironstone and imported coal or coke. Rapid industrial expansion in the area led directly to the development of the town of Scunthorpe, eventually incorporating several other former hamlets and villages, in a formerly sparsely populated entirely agricultural area. From the early 1910s to the 1930s the industry consolidated, with three main ownership concerns formed –

1785-528: The borough's seventeen wards, namely Ashby, Brumby, Crosby & Park, Frodingham, Kingsway with Lincoln Gardens and Town. The Scunthorpe wards elect 16 of the borough's 43 councillors. As of 2018, 26 are members of the Conservative party , and 13 are members of the Labour party . The councillors form the charter trustees of the Town of Scunthorpe and they continue to elect a town mayor. North Lincolnshire Council

1836-1316: The building up to scratch, and dealing with industrial contamination on site. The Labour Council prevented the Baths from being demolished in 2007 and commenced a major rebuild of the venue, which has involved demolishing all but the facade of the building. The building re-opened in November 2011. Primary schools include: Frodingham Infant School; Scunthorpe CofE Primary School; Oasis Academy Henderson Avenue; Bushfield Road Infant School; Crosby Primary School; Saint Augustine Webster Catholic Voluntary Academy; Berkeley Primary School; Oasis Academy Parkwood; Lincoln Gardens Primary School; Priory Lane Community School; St. Bernadette's Catholic Primary Voluntary Academy; Westcliffe Primary School; The Grange Primary School; Oakfield Primary School; Willoughby Road Primary Academy; Enderby Road Infant School; Leys Farm Junior School; St Peter and St Paul CofE Primary School; and Holme Valley Primary School Secondary schools within Scunthorpe include: The St Lawrence Academy; Engineering UTC Northern Lincolnshire; Outwood Academy Brumby; Outwood Academy Foxhills; Melior Community Academy; St Bede's Catholic Voluntary Academy; and Frederick Gough School John Leggott Sixth-Form College (JLC)

1887-462: The company, together with the rest of BSC, became part of Corus (1999), later Tata Steel Europe (2007). In 2016 the long products division of Tata Steel Europe was sold to Greybull Capital with Scunthorpe as the primary steel production site. In May 2019, after a drop in future orders, and a breakdown in rescue talks between the government and the company's owner, Greybull, British Steel Limited entered insolvency. Industries associated with

1938-452: The local ironstone which began in 1859; iron production commenced in 1864, steel smelting in 1891. Scunthorpe's population grew from 1,245 in 1851 to 11,167 in 1901 and 45,840 in 1941. The boundaries of Scunthorpe expanded to include the former villages of Bottesford , Frodingham , Crosby , Brumby and Ashby . Scunthorpe became an urban district in 1891, merged as 'Scunthorpe, Brumby and Frodingham Urban District' in 1919, and became

1989-640: The local steelworks. In 2003 the college began producing a newsletter called Clippings , which publishes around 2-3 times year. In May 2010, an atrium was constructed at the front of the main entrance of the main building, and was opened in September 2010. During August 2010, the oldest building on the college campus was demolished. In September 2016, student lanyards were introduced to improve safety to all persons on campus. Courses range from basic GCSE to Higher National Diploma to Animal Management , and include National Vocational Qualification courses on

2040-404: The new borough council formed in 1974, and are now used by the town's charter trustees. The green shield and golden wheatsheaf recall that the area was until recently agricultural in nature. Across the centre of the shield is a length of chain. This refers to the five villages of Crosby, Scunthorpe, Frodingham, Brumby & Ashby linking together as one. At the top of the shield are two fossils of

2091-477: The northern boundaries of the parishes of Crowle , Eastoft , Luddington , Haldenby and Amcotts , now compose the unitary authority of North Lincolnshire . On amalgamation charter trustees were formed for Scunthorpe, and they continue to elect a town mayor. When Scunthorpe was incorporated as a borough in 1936, it also received a grant of a coat of arms from the College of Arms . These arms were transferred to

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2142-620: The species Gryphaea incurva . These remains of oysters, known as the "devil's toenails", were found in the rock strata from which ironstone was quarried. The crest, on top of the helm, shows a blast furnace. This is also referred to in the Latin motto: Refulget labores nostros coelum or The heavens reflect our labours popularly attributed to the glow observed in the night sky from the steelmaking activities. Scunthorpe lies on an escarpment of ridged land (the Lincoln Cliff ) which slopes down towards

2193-416: The steelworks include metal engineering as well as a BOC plant. Although the historical predominance of the steel industry made Scunthorpe a virtual monotown , there are other industries in the town. These include food production, distribution and retailing. North of the town next a waste management firm, Bell Waste Control, which services the majority of industry in Scunthorpe and the surrounding areas. On

2244-511: The summer, and can be as low as −2 °C (28 °F) in the winter. The Iron industry in Scunthorpe was established in the mid 19th century, following the discovery and exploitation of middle Lias ironstone east of Scunthorpe. Initially iron ore was exported to iron producers in South Yorkshire . Later, after the construction of the Trent, Ancholme and Grimsby Railway (1860s) gave rail access to

2295-615: The title of BBC Radio 3 Choir of the Year 2008 at the Grand Finals on 7 December 2008 at the Royal Festival Hall , London. The main choir is made up of 90 members aged between 9 and 19 years whilst also having two training choirs taking children as young as 3 years old. They have made several CDs, performed numerous concerts in the area and further afield, have been subject of documentaries and are internationally renowned as having travelled

2346-555: The town after almost a 4-year absence. The store is housed in a purpose-built location at the North Lincolnshire Shopping Park, beside Glanford Park. The shopping park also includes Boots , B&M Bargains, Costa Coffee and Subway . Scunthorpe railway station is on the South TransPennine Line which has trains from Liverpool Lime Street to Cleethorpes . Scunthorpe station (SCU), has two platforms and

2397-495: The town roughly 90% White and 10% BAME . According to the census, the towns religious composition was 51% of the population followed Christianity . followed by 42.1% who were non-religious and 5% of the population followed Islam . Other religions and not stated respondents were recorded at 2.9% of the population. Scunthorpe is also home to the largest British Asian community in the county of Lincolnshire, followed by both Lincoln and Grimsby . The North Lincolnshire Museum

2448-509: The town. Key Country Foods produces meat products on an industrial scale. The Sauce Company produces sauces, soups and other foodstuffs for the catering and supermarket sectors. Ericsson Mobile Platforms produces printed circuit boards for the telecommunications industry. There are a number of other firms, mostly involved in manufacturing and light engineering. In the 2001 census 19.3% of the working age population were economically inactive. Scunthorpe has two major shopping centres, effectively

2499-474: The world. Scunthorpe was the setting of a 2012 Cultural Olympiad community opera called Cycle Song , about past steel-worker and Olympic cyclist Lal White . It was composed by Tim Sutton and the librettist was Ian McMillan . The Scunthorpe Co-operative Junior Choir , Proper Job Theatre Company and over a thousand locals participated. The local newspaper is the Scunthorpe Telegraph (formerly

2550-516: Was based in Scunthorpe Civic Centre off Ashby Road (former A159 ) next to Festival Gardens. It was designed by Charles B. Pearson, Son and Partners and was completed in 1962. It was the home of Scunthorpe Borough Council until 1996. It was named Pittwood House after Edwin Pittwood, a local Labour politician, who worked in the opencast ironstone workings near Normanby Park. In 1889 the area

2601-409: Was included in the Lincolnshire, Parts of Lindsey administrative county . Separate local government began in 1890 when the Scunthorpe local board of health was formed. In 1894 the local board was replaced with an urban district council. At the same time the neighbouring townships of Brumby and Frodingham were also constituted an urban district . The two urban districts were amalgamated, along with

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