Grantham

Grantham, town on the River Witham in Lincolnshire, eastern England. It is an important rail junction on the London-to-Scotland East Coast main line railway. Its major industry is mechanical engineering, and it is renowned for its meat products, especially sausages. Sir Isaac Newton attended King's School there in the 1650s. A collection of Newtonian memorabilia is on display in the town's museum. The former prime minister Margaret Thatcher was born in Grantham in 1925. The author Charles Dickens featured the town's George Hotel in his novel Nicholas Nickleby. Population (1993 estimate) 32,200.