Mablethorpe, a village on the coast of Lincolnshire, 13 miles by rail (1888) SE. of Louth, with hard and extensive sands, to which thousands of the working-classes of Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Yorkshire, and Lancashire are carried every summer by cheap day-excursion trains. Close by is a submerged forest. Pop. 640.
Mablethorpe
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta
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