the town on Low Road. Wainfleet became a conservation area in 1972. Transport The town was at the end of a branch of the Great Northern Railway until the development of Skegness about to the east. Wainfleet railway station is on Station Road, and is on the Nottingham to Skegness Line. Sport Meetings of the Motorcycle Grasstrack Racing are hosted by the Wainfleet & District Sporting Motorcycle Club. They have run annually the International Lincolnshire Poacher race since 1992. The club have also hosted the British Masters Championship on four occasions in 1997, 1998, 2002, 2004. In 2011 the club hosted the European Grasstrack Championship Final at their home at Thorpe St Peter. Northolme At the northern end of Wainfleet All Saints is the hamlet of Northolme, which is all that remains of the lost parish of Wainfleet St Thomas. No distinction was made between Wainfleet All Saints, Wainfleet St Mary, and Wainfleet St Thomas, until a deed from Peter De Beningword to Bardney Abbey mentions North Wenfled. The original deed held in the British Library is undated, but is estimated to be from the 13th century. In 1316 Wainfleet St Thomas is mentioned as paying tax under Feudal Aid. At the time of the Reformation, the chapel belonged to Kyme Priory. There is no clear indication of when it was demolished, but it was still standing at the time of the Protectorate, when the general Baptists were granted its use. Nothing remains of the chapel today, although its site is used as an extension of the present cemetery. In 1546 Thomas Lyttlebury was heir to the manor of Northolme through his brother John. However, it seems that the estate became the property of John's daughter, Alice, who married Thomas Upton. Thomas Upton's successors lived at Northolme Hall. The first Northolme Hall was an Elizabethan moated manor house, reputedly built in 1549. The present Northolme Hall was built on the same site in 1866. Population Geography Wainfleet is located South of Skegness and North of Boston on the A52. See also RAF Wainfleet - local bombing range. References Further reading Ian Simmons, "Medieval and early modern management of the River Lymn and Wainfleet Haven (east Lincolnshire, England)", Landscape History, vol. 39, no. 2 (2018), pp. 5–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/01433768.2018.1534455 External links Town web site Towns in Lincolnshire Civil parishes in Lincolnshire Buildings and structures in Lincolnshire Windmills in Lincolnshire East Lindsey District