locally by Spilsby Town Council, is under East Lindsey District Council based at Manby. Spilsby falls under the Louth and Horncastle Westminster parliamentary constituency. The sitting MP is Victoria Atkins. The area's European MEPs are: Derek Clark, Bill Newton Dunn, Chris Heaton-Harris, Roger Helmer, Robert Kilroy-Silk and Glenys Wilmott. Geography The town is situated upon slightly elevated ground at the southwestern rim of the Lincolnshire Wolds. Spilsby has an extensive south-east view of a tract of marsh and fen land, bounded by Boston Deeps and the North Sea. It is within inland from Skegness. The Wolds comprise a series of low hills and steep valleys, underlain by calcareous chalk, green limestone and sandstone rock, laid down in the Cretaceous period under a shallow warm sea. The characteristic open valleys of the Wolds were created during the last ice age through the action of glaciation and meltwater. Geographically, the Lincolnshire Wolds are a continuation of the Yorkshire Wolds, which run up through the East Riding of Yorkshire. The Wolds as a whole were bisected by the erosion of the waters of the River Humber. The fenlands, which stretch down as far as Norfolk, are former wetlands, consisting both of peat bogs and tidal silt marshes. They were nearly all drained by the end of the 19th century, when Spilsby had its longest period of Victorian expansion. The drainage was organised into river drainage, the passing of upland water through the region, and internal drainage of the land between the rivers. The internal drainage was designed to be organised by levels or districts, each of which includes the fen parts of one or several parishes. Spilsby falls within the Witham Fourth District: East, West and Wildmore Fens; and the Townland, from Boston to Wainfleet. Demography Previous population counts Historical population sizes for the town include: 1801 – 932 1821 – 1,234 1841 – 1,434 1861 – 1,467 1881 – 1,423 1911 – 1,464 1931 – 1,654 2001 census The latest figures are drawn from the 2001 census: Population in 2001: 2,336 47.3% male and 52.7% female 26.3% single and never married, 47.8% married, the remainder split between separated, divorced and widowed 98.6% White with 1.4% spread between Asian, British Asian, Indian and Chinese 81.4% Christian, with 11% indicating no religion, and the remainder split between other religions 56.1% employed, 20.3% retired and 3% unemployed, remainder in full-time education 60.1% of households were