Scartho

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Scartho Village is a suburb located in the southern part of Grimsby, England, in the county of North East Lincolnshire. with a population of around 11,000. It is a very desirable area of North East Lincolnshire to live in, due to good quality housing, good schools, regular buses into Grimsby town centre, a relatively low crime rate, and the suburb having a 'village' atmosphere. The property prices in Scartho reflect this.

Its population has been boosted due to recent urban developments such as the one at Scartho Top.

Long-term residents claim that the 'village' atmosphere has changed in recent years with a significant increase in crime (albeit from a low-base), ranging from vandalism and intimidating behaviour to assaults.

Although the creation of the Peakes Parkway ten years ago was intended to take existing traffic volume pressure off Scartho, the development of Scartho Top and the popularity of areas to the south of the town (served by Louth Road and Waltham Road, the two main roads out south of Grimsby) have also led to large increases in the volume of traffic in the suburb: Scartho Road can often be gridlocked at rush hour times.

[edit] History

Although Anglo Saxon in origin, the earliest recorded reference to Scartho was in the Domesday Book in 1086. The Church of 1086, which incorporated Saxon work dating from before the Eleventh century, is substantially the same today, although with more recent extensions. The tower was probably completed in the early Eleventh century. The church is dedicated to Saint Giles.

In the first census of the United Kingdom in 1801 Scartho had 135 inhabitants. The population has grown rapidly ever since.

In 1916 13 bombs were dropped on Scartho by a German Zeppelin; fortunately no one was killed or even injured. The site of where one bomb fell is now home to a branch of Barclays Bank, an opticians, a few shops and a Dance School. At the side of the building is a plaque commemorating this event. A monument giving thanks that no one was hurt can be found at a spot where another bomb fell, in the churchyard of the nearby parish church of St. Giles, itself believed to be nearly a thousand years old. The church itself was badly damaged in the attack.

Scartho was a separate parish until 1928. Its northern boundary included part of the area that now forms the Nunsthorpe housing estate. In that year the greater part of the village was absorbed by Grimsby, with a small part being attached to the parish of Waltham.