Counting Cleethorpes and Grimsby as the key focal points within its local boundaries, North East Lincolnshire unfolds across the River Humber, its wealth of ecclesiastical architecture punctuating a landscape which straddles the ports and coastline caressed by the North Sea.
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This borough is home to the world's largest fishing port, Grimsby. If you do like to be beside the seaside, North East Lincolnshire has an award winning blue flag beach. Unfortunately, as it's the North Sea, blue is also the colour you'll turn if you swim here.
A popular tourist destination, Cleethorpes is all sandy beaches, markets and fish and chips, while its Victorian buildings and plethora of churches provide examples of period architecture. Ross Castle, with its art deco stylings, marks the highest point of the original cliffs at Cleethorpes, which succumbed to coastal erosion.
Grimsby also wears its theological preferences on its architectural sleeve, especially with the Fisherman's Chapel - opening in 1904, it was the site where fishermen would congregate to socialise, and also pray or give thanks for successful fishing trips. It's now a tourist attraction here, along with the Dock Tower - Grimsby's most famous landmark, it's over three hundred feet high and apparently built from more than one million bricks.
Actor John Hurt is among the borough's best known exports, after his family moved to the area when he was a child, and he studied at Grimsby Art School before embarking on a career which has involved leading roles in films such as Alien, the Elephant Man and an adaptation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
North East Lincolnshire has a greater proportion of part-time workers (34.3 per cent) than the national average, but its full-time employees do not enjoy a particularly well-endowed pay packet, in an area where women are paid an average of just £7.64 per hour, which compares rather unfavourably with the country-wide average rate of £10.28 per hour.
Mean house prices in the borough have risen since 2002 so that they are now above half of the national average, although they still fall well below this average rate. Indeed, this is unlikely to be helped by the rate of household burglaries per thousand of the population (9.1), which is more than double the national average of 4.3, hinting that - unless you happen to live in one of the Humber Forts - you'd be well advised to always keep an eye on your belongings.
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