What is "grantham"

Grantham (pronounced ) is a market town within the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It bestrides the London to Edinburgh East Coast Main Line railway and the River Witham, and is bounded to the west by the A1 main north-south road.

Grantham is about south of the city and county town of Lincoln, and about east of the city of Nottingham. The resident population at the 2001 Census was 34,592 in about 18,000 households, excluding the adjacent village of Great Gonerby.

The town is best known as the birthplace of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher, and the place where Isaac Newton went to school, at The King's School. It is close to an ancient Roman road, and was the scene of Oliver Cromwell's first advantage over Royalists during the English Civil War at Gonerby Moor. Grantham is also notable for having the first female police officers in the United Kingdom, notably Edith Smith in 1914, and producing the first running diesel engine in 1892, and the UK's first tractor in 1896.

Grantham was a Parliamentary constituency in Lincolnshire, England.

The constituency was created in 1468 as a parliamentary borough which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of England until the union with Scotland, and then to the Parliament of Great Britain until the Act of Union 1800 established the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The parliamentary borough had its representation reduced to one MP in 1885, and was finally abolished in 1918, the name transferring to a new county division which elected one MP. The county constituency was abolished for the 1997 election, and the area formerly covered by this constituency is now mostly in Sleaford and North Hykeham. Grantham became part of the new constituency of Grantham and Stamford.

Grantham is a town in Lincolnshire in the United Kingdom.

Grantham may also refer to:

Grantham is an English surname which has been spread to North America and Australasia. Notable people with the surname include:

• Alexander Grantham (1899–1978), British colonial administrator
• Donald Grantham, American composer
• Jeremy Grantham, Chairman of the Board of Grantham Mayo Van Otterloo, a Boston based asset management firm
• Joseph Grantham (died 1830), first police officer to be killed on duty in the United Kingdom
• Leslie Grantham, British TV actor
• Roy Grantham (1926–2013), British trade union leader
• Sir Thomas Grantham, commander of the naval fleet of the British East India Company
• William Grantham (1835–1911), English judge and Conservative M.P. for East Surrey and Croydon
• Carla Grantham, Owner/Proprietor, Carla Grantham Presents