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Conisholme
Conisholme shown within Lincolnshire |
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| Population | 87 |
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| OS grid reference | TF402955 |
| District | East Lindsey |
| Shire county | Lincolnshire |
| Region | East Midlands |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | LOUTH |
| Postcode district | LN11 7 |
| Dialling code | 01507 35 |
| Police | Lincolnshire |
| Fire | Lincolnshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| EU Parliament | East Midlands |
| UK Parliament | Louth and Horncastle |
| List of places: UK • England • Lincolnshire | |
Conisholme is a small settlement in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is on the Cleethorpes - Mablethorpe A1031.
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The village is about three miles (5 km) from the Lincolnshire coast. The parish covers the large area of 1,240 acres (5.0 km2), but only a small amount is taken up by the A1031 road - from Ludney to the west to halfway between the village and Braygate Bridge, to the north-east. The main village of North Somercotes is to the east. The parish mostly extends south-west across Conisholme Fen towards the Louth Canal and North Cockerington. The county council Louth Marsh and district council North Somercotes wards are both Conservative, and represented by Robert Palmer, who is also the Chairman of East Lindsey District Council and lives on a farm in North Somercotes.
The parish church is dedicated to St Peter. It is in the North Somercotes group of churches, along with Grainthorpe.
The E-48 wind turbines for Fen Farm on Conisholme Fen, south-west of the village, have the capacity to supply 24% of electricity needs in East Lindsey, with each producing 800kWe and a total of 16MWe, enough for 13,000 homes, being owned by Ecotricity. They have a hub height of 65m, a blade length of 24 m and an overall height of 89m. Construction began in December 2007, and was finished on April 17, 2008.
During the early hours of 4 January 2009, one of the twenty wind turbines, built by Enercon and designed by architect Lord Norman Foster, was damaged. National newspaper coverage speculated that it had been hit by an Unidentified Flying Object after local reports of strange lights in the sky.[1] The story received coverage on the BBC, ITV News and Sky News.
Further examination revealed that parts of the initial reports were not correct and that the turbine may have suffered from metal fatigue instead.[2][3]