Grantham (/ˈɡrænθəm/ GRAN-thəm) is a market and industrial town
in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It straddles
the Londonâ€"Edinburgh East Coast Main Line and the River Witham and
is bounded to the west by the A1 northâ€"south trunk road. It lies
about 23 miles (37 kilometres) south of the county town, Lincoln, and
22 miles (35 kilometres) east of Nottingham. The population in 2016
was put at 44,580. Grantham is known as the birthplace of former UK
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, for educating Isaac Newton at the
King's School, as the workplace of the UK's first female police
officer, Edith Smith in 1914, and for making the UK's first running
diesel engine in 1892 and tractor in 1896. Thomas Paine worked there
as an excise officer in the 1790s.Grantham lies close to the ancient
Old North Road. It was the scene in 1643 of Oliver Cromwell's first
win over Royalists during the English Civil War, at Gonerby Moor.The
origin of "Grantham" is uncertain, although the name is said probably
to be Old English "Granta+ham", meaning "Granta's homestead". It
appeared as early as 1086 in the Domesday Book in its present form of
Grantham, but was also recorded variously as Grandham, Granham and
Graham. The place name element grand could possibly mean "gravel". Grantham Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter