Grantham

Grantham, municipal and parliamentary borough and market town of Lincolnshire, is on the Witham, and 22 miles S.W. of Lincoln. The thirteenth-century church, restored by Sir G. Scott, has a spire 274 ft. high, and contains many monuments. Besides the grammar school, founded by Bishop Fox in 1528, there is a guildhall, a town hall, two exchanges, a literary institute, and a bronze statue of Sir Isaac Newton. The chief industries are malting, tanning, coach-building, agricultural implement-making, and iron-founding.