Conisholme

Coordinates: 53°26′N 0°06′E / 53.43°N 0.10°E / 53.43; 0.10

Conisholme
Conisholme  Conisholme shown within Lincolnshire
Population	87
OS grid reference	TF402955
District	East Lindsey
Shire county	Lincolnshire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	LOUTH
Postcode district	LN11 7
Dialling code	01507 35
Police	Lincolnshire
Fire	Lincolnshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
EU Parliament	East Midlands
UK Parliament	Louth and Horncastle
List of places: UK • England • Lincolnshire

Conisholme is a small settlement in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is on the Cleethorpes - Mablethorpe A1031.

Geography

The village is about three miles (5 km) from the Lincolnshire coast. The parish covers the large area of 1,240 acres (5.0 km²), but only a small amount is taken up by the A1031 road - from Ludney to the west to halfway between the village and Braygate Bridge, to the north-east. The main village of North Somercotes is to the east. The parish mostly extends south-west across Conisholme Fen towards the Louth Canal and North Cockerington. The county council Louth Marsh and district council North Somercotes wards are both Conservative, and represented by Robert Palmer, who is also the Chairman of East Lindsey District Council and lives on a farm in North Somercotes.

History

The parish church is dedicated to St Peter. It is in the North Somercotes group of churches, along with Grainthorpe.

Wind turbines

The E-48 wind turbines for Fen Farm on Conisholme Fen, south-west of the village, have the capacity to supply 24% of electricity needs in East Lindsey, with each producing 800kWe and a total of 16MWe, enough for 13,000 homes, being owned by Ecotricity. They have a hub height of 65m, a blade length of 24 m and an overall height of 89m. Construction began in December 2007, and was finished on April 17, 2008.

During the early hours of 4 January 2009, one of the twenty wind turbines, built by Enercon and designed by architect Lord Norman Foster, was damaged. National newspaper coverage speculated that it had been hit by an Unidentified Flying Object after local reports of strange lights in the sky.^[1] The story received coverage on the BBC, ITV News and Sky News.

Further examination revealed that parts of the initial reports were not correct and that the turbine may have suffered from metal fatigue instead.^[2][3]

References

1. ^ http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/ufos/article2108149.ece
2. ^ http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/mablethorpe/news/Ecotricity-claim-UFO-probability-list-Conisholme-wind-turbine-mystery/article-620892-detail/article.html
3. ^ http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5479208.ece

External links

• Parish council
• Proposal for Conisholme Fen Wind Park (pdf)
• Fen Farm

News items

• Alleged UFO in January 2009
• Wind farm anomalies