Roxby, Lincolnshire
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Roxby is a village in North Lincolnshire, England, about four miles north of Scunthorpe near the town of Winterton on the A1077 road.
Roxby commands extensive views of the River Humber as the village stands on a prominent part of the Lincoln Edge. In 1699 a Roman mosaic was discovered near to the church. Several attempts to excavate the mosaic were made but it was not until 1972 when it was accurately excavated and recorded by the then-curator of Scunthorpe Museum. Later excavations by the Humberside Archaeology Unit concluded that the mosaic was part of an aisled structure with the mosaic forming the flooring for a suite of rooms at one end of the villa which may have been up to 20 metres wide and 50 metres long.
A small village, Roxby is home to less than 500 inhabitants.
Although no railway line runs directly to Roxby, a major landfill site is situated a few miles away in a disused ironstone quarry. This is served by the remnants of the North Lindsey Light Railway over which trainloads of household rubbish are transported in containers from various locations in the Greater Manchester area
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