Grantham Detectives

Grantham Detectives have been operating in Grantham and the East Midlands for almost 20 years.

• Grantham is within short walking distance of an ancient Roman road, and was the scene of Oliver Cromwell's first advantage over Royalists during the English Civil War at Gonerby Moor.
• Grantham is a market town within the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England.
• Grantham bestrides the East Coast Main Line railway (London-Edinburgh), the historic A1 main north-south road, and the River Witham.
• Grantham is located approximately 26 miles (42 km) south of the city of Lincoln, and approximately 24 miles (39 km) east of Nottingham.
• Grantham's population at the 2001 census was 34,592 with around 18,000 households, excluding the adjacent village of Great Gonerby.
• With the housing estates in Londonthorpe and Harrowby Without (around a population of 4,500), this figure would be around 42,000.
• Grantham is best known as the birthplace of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher, and the place where Isaac Newton went to school.
• Grantham is also notable for having the first female police officers in the United Kingdom, in 1914.
• Grantham produced the first running diesel engine in 1892, and the UK's first tractor in 1896.
• Grantham's town boundary crosses the A1 to the west at the Dysart Road bridge.
• Grantham crosses the B1174 at Gonerby Hill.
• All of the Manthorpe estate is aprt of Grantham, but the (smaller) Manthorpe village and the church is part of Belton and Manthorpe.
• Grantham passes to the west of Harrowby Hall and over Hall's Hill.
• Grantham crosses the A52 at the start of Somerby Hill.
• Grantham borders Little Ponton, and crosses the B1174 at the southern end of the Spittlegate Level Industrial Estate
• Grantham Museum is on St Peter's Hill.
• Grantham has the A1 main road from London to Edinburgh running past it (the town was bypassed in 1962).
• Grantham's shopping High Street, until recently, was part of the busy A52 which runs to nearby Nottingham.
• Grantham is also well known for its indoor and outdoor bowls player's who have represented the clubs within many county and national competitions.