The main local landmark is the impressive parish church of St Wulfram's, which has the sixth highest spire (282 ft) among English churches, and is also home to the country's first public library. In 1598, Francis Trigge, the rector of Welbourn gave £100 for a small library of books for the clergy and literate laity of Grantham. Two hundred and fifty of the original volumes remain and are kept in the parish church.
Grantham is home to the world's only 'living' pub sign: a beehive of South African bees perched in a tree since 1830.
Grantham has about 33,000 people _now_; it really was never very much of a place and was basically a village in Newton's day. I have been there on my history of science pilgrimage.
--- Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote:
> It must have been a place of some substance, back in
> the day. The parish
> church is quite something.
>
> On Wednesday 26 December 2007 00:57:20 andie
> nachgeborenen wrote:
> > I'm not sure Grantham was so mighty to begin with.
> >
> > --- Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 25 December 2007 16:17:20 Carrol Cox
> > >
> > > wrote:
> > > > Nature, and Nature's God, lay hid in night;
> > > > God said, Let Newton Be, and all was light.
> > >
> > > Oh by the way: Newton was born near Grantham ,
> and
> > > went to school
> > > there. Grantham is better known nowadays as the
> > > place where Maggie
> > > Thatcher's Da had his grocery.
> > >
> > > Quomodo ceciderunt potestates...
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