Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth
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Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth is a hamlet at Template:Gbmapping, in the parish of Colsterworth, in the English county of Lincolnshire, best known as the birthplace of the scientist, philosopher, alchemist, and mathematician Sir Isaac Newton. It is not to be confused with the village of Woolsthorpe-by-Belvoir, generally known just as Woolsthorpe, which is also in Lincolnshire but about 8 miles (13 kilometres) to the north-west.
Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth is 100 miles (170 km) north of London, and 1 kilometre west of the A1 (the axial non-motorway road of Great Britain. That road bypasses Colsterworth which grew up on the Great North Road). The hamlet is three to four kilometres from the county boundary with Leicestershire and six from Rutland.
The hamlet now stands in pleasant rather rural surroundings but it is on the Lower Lincolnshire Limestone, below which are the Lower Estuarine Series and the Northamptonshire Sand of the Inferior Oolite Series of the Jurassic. The Northamptonshire Sand here is cemented by iron and in the twentieth century the hamlet was almost surrounded by strip mining for the iron ore. The line of the now dismantled railway which carried the ore away lies behind the houses. The railway's bridge, still spans the A1.
Woolsthorpe Manor, Newton's birthplace, is a typical seventeenth century yeoman farmer's limestone house with its later farmyard buildings. It is owned by the National Trust and is open to the public.
Reference
- Ordnance Survey.
- Geological Survey 1:50 000 Sheet 143.
External links
- Woolsthorpe by Colsterworth (http://www.lincsheritage.org/vt/woolsthorpe/index.html) page in the website of the Heritage Trust of Lincolnshire
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- Template:Gbmapping
- Postcodes: NG33 5xx