Geography of Lincolnshire - Classification

Classification

For the purposed of a general geographical classification the county can be broken down into a number of sub-regions:

• The Lincolnshire coast.

• Lincolnshire Fens: a region of flat, marshy land (much of it reclaimed from the sea) that predominates in the southern and south-eastern areas of the county (most particularly around the local towns of Boston and Spalding and extending around The Wash to the county border with Norfolk.

• The Lincolnshire Marsh: reclaimed salt marsh in the east of the county, north of the Fens.

• The Lincolnshire Wolds: a range of low hills that run broadly south-east through the central and eastern portion of the county.

• The industrial Humber Estuary and north-east coast: the major population and industrial centres of North and North East Lincolnshire. These include the major fishing port of Grimsby and nearby Immingham (an important centre for the chemical industry) - both towns are on estuary of the River Humber, which flows into the North Sea). Also included is the nearby industrial town of Scunthorpe, a once important steel producing town, but now somewhat in post-industrial decline.

• The vale of the River Trent in the west of the county, bordering Nottinghamshire.

• The Isle of Axholme in the north west.

The highest point of the county is just to the north of the village of Normanby le Wold, in the Lincolnshire Wolds north-east of Market Rasen. Marked by a trig point, it is 168m/551 ft high and is a Marilyn.