Mablethorpe is a seaside town in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, part of the civil parish of Mablethorpe and Sutton. The population including nearby Sutton-on-Sea was 12,531 at the 2011 census and estimated at 12,633 in 2019. The town was visited regularly by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, a 19th-century Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom. Some town features have been named after him, such as Tennyson Road and the now closed Tennyson High School. History Roman Empire A horde of Roman treasure was found in Mablethorpe in the 1980s, as were a Roman brooch and pottery. Mablethorpe Hall Mablethorpe has existed as a town for many centuries, gaining its market town charter in 1253. Coastal erosion means some of it was lost to the sea in the 1540s. Records of the Fitzwilliam family of Mablethorpe Hall date back to the 14th century. In the 19th century, it was a centre for ship breaking in the winter. Mablethorpe Hall is to the west of the town along Alford Road near the Church of St Mary. The Mablethorpe church parish includes Trusthorpe. Town lifeboats In 1883 Mablethorpe's first lifeboat station was built, and ran until the First World War, when it closed temporarily due to crew shortages. These continued and the station closed permanently after the war. It reopened as an inshore lifeboat station in 1965. An additional station was opened in 1996. A D-class lifeboat, D-506 Patrick Rex Moren, went into service on 9 July 1996, followed in 2001 by a B-class Atlantic 75-class lifeboat, B–778 Joan Mary, and in 2005 by a more modern D-class lifeboat, D–653 William Hadley. In 1998, a bronze medal was awarded to the helmsman for service on 12 April, when the lifeboat rescued a crew of two and saved the fishing vessel Lark, which had broken down in the surf and was drifting towards the shore without her anchor. The lifeboat was launched in a force 7 gale and a heavy swell – extreme conditions for this class. The helmsman had difficulty in negotiating the rough seas to reach the fishing boat, decided it was too hazardous to take off the crew and passed a line and towed her from danger – a considerable feat in huge seas for a lifeboat smaller than the fishing boat and powered by one 40-hp outboard engine. East Coast floods In 1953, Mablethorpe was hit by the disastrous