Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth
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Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth is Script error: No such module "convert". northwest of the village of Colsterworth on the A1 road. Woolsthorpe is Script error: No such module "convert". from the county boundary with Leicestershire and Script error: No such module "convert". from the county boundary with Rutland.
Woolsthorpe lies in rural surroundings. It sits on Lower Lincolnshire Limestone, below which are the Lower Estuarine Series and the Northampton sand of the Inferior Oolite Series of the Jurassic period. The Northampton Sand here is cemented by iron and in the 20th century the hamlet was almost surrounded by strip mining for iron ore. In 1973 the local quarries closed due to competition from imported iron ore. The same year the Great Northern Railway's High Dyke branch line closedTemplate:Snd it was opened in 1916 to carry iron ore, and lay to the north of the village. There was an unsuccessful attempt to preserve the line.
Woolsthorpe Manor, Newton's birthplace, is a typical 17th-century yeoman farmer's limestone house, with later farmyard buildings. It is owned by the National Trust and is open to the public.
References
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- Ordnance Survey
- Geological Survey 1:50 000 Sheet 143.
External links
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- Woolsthorpe by Colsterworth page in the website of England's Local Heritage Initiative
- Railways and quarries around Woolsthorpe by Colsterworth in 1963
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