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1. Grantham

   Grantham () is a market and industrial town in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, situated on the banks of the River Witham and bounded to the west by the A1 road. It lies some 23 miles (37 km) south of Lincoln and 22 miles (35 km) east of Nottingham. The population in 2016 was put at 44,580. The town is the largest settlement and the administrative centre of South Kesteven District. Grantham was the birthplace of the UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Isaac Newton was educated at the King's School. The town was the workplace of the UK's first warranted female police officer, Edith Smith in 1914. The UK's first running diesel engine was made there in 1892 and the first tractor in 1896. Thomas Paine worked there as an excise officer in the 1760s. The villages of Manthorpe, Great Gonerby, Barrowby, Londonthorpe and Harlaxton form outlying suburbs of the town.

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1. Grantham

   Grantham 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 lies close to the A1 main north-south road. Grantham is located approximately 26 miles south of the city of Lincoln, and approximately 24 miles east of the city of Nottingham. The resident population at the 2001 census was 34,592 in around 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. 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.

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1. Grantham

   a market-town in Lincolnshire, on the Witham, 25 m. SW. of Lincoln, and has a fine 13th-century church; in the grammar-school Newton was educated, and in 1643 Cromwell won his first victory here; its industries embrace agricultural-implement making, malting, &c.; a 30 m. canal connects it with the Trent.

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1. GRANTHAM

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Grantham is ranked #3440 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Grantham surname appeared 10,379 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 4 would have the surname Grantham.
   
   86.6% or 8,993 total occurrences were White.
   8.2% or 855 total occurrences were Black.
   2% or 217 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.7% or 182 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.6% or 70 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   0.6% or 62 total occurrences were Asian.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Grantham in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Grantham in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of Grantham in a Sentence

1. Jim Carter:

   The( concept) is that Lord Grantham has asked Lord Grantham to reminisce about Lord Grantham time at Downton Abbey, so Lord Grantham goes back and we talk about the loves, the lives, the disasters, the tragedies, the fun of the whole six series, which is linked together by the music.

2. Barbara Hoffman:

   I can name six courts that have actually gone through and proved that it wasn’t unconstitutional, these judges all ruled against that. So, I believe the judges have enough to back that up. I don’t think Rep. Grantham has that knowledge to override a judge. And this is judges throughout the United States.

3. Gareth Neame:

   I want to know what happens to Downton when baby George is now Lord Grantham in the 1960s.

4. Adam Daubney:

   The area between Grantham and Boston was a zone of intense conflict between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists in the early years of the war, so we can think of the Ewerby hoard as being from the ‘front-line,’ the hoard tells us about the uncertainty and fear that must have been felt at the time, but quite why it was buried – and by whom – is impossible to say.

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References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grantham
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Grantham
3. ^ The Nuttall Encyclopedia
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12342/pg12342-images.html#Grantham
4. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html