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Grimsby

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Great Grimsby is a seaport on the river Humber in the north of England, which has a population of 91,000. 11,000 of the population of Grimsby live in the village of Scartho which was absorbed into Grimsby before laws on the Green Belt were put in place.

Historically in Lincolnshire, it was moved to Humberside in 1974 (where it formed the larger part of the borough of Great Grimsby) and since 1996 has been part of the unitary North East Lincolnshire.

Grimsby is traditionally strongly associated with the sea fishing industry, however as a result of overfishing and decreasing quotas this has been under decline.

It is called 'Great Grimsby' to distinguish it from Little Grimsby, a village about 20km to the south, near Louth.

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