A significant number of residents commute to work in nearby Scunthorpe and Grimsby, although the town is not characterized as a dormitory town.

Scunthorpe is a town in North Lincolnshire, England.

A predominantly industrial town, Scunthorpe, the United Kingdom's largest steel processing centre, is also known as the " Industrial Garden Town ".

The councillors form the Charter Trustees of the Town of Scunthorpe and they continue to elect a town mayor.

Scunthorpe received a charter incorporating the town as a municipal borough in 1936.

Local authority boundary changes brought the town into the new county of Humberside in 1974, and a new non-metropolitan district, the Borough of Scunthorpe was formed with the same boundaries as the old municipal borough.

On amalgamation charter trustees were formed for Scunthorpe, and they continue to elect a town mayor.

The town is at the meeting point of the east-west A631 ( which crosses the Trent on Trent Bridge at the only point between the M180 and the A57 ), the A156 ( from the south to Torksey ) and A159 ( from Scunthorpe ).

The town has links with the John Leggott Sixth Form College in Scunthorpe, North Lindsey College, and Lincoln College which has a branch at Gainsborough College on Acland Street, focussing on vocational education.

Scunthorpe United Football Club is an English association football team based in the town of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire.

Land was secured at an out of town site in what was then the administrative area of Glanford meaning that the new ground was outside the boundaries of Scunthorpe ( although this changed with the re-organisation of local government in 1994 as both Scunthorpe Borough Council and Glanford Borough Council became North Lincolnshire Council ).

Taylor grew up in the industrial steel town of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, a town with which he still has many connections and regards as his hometown.

Winterton is a small town in North Lincolnshire, England, north-east of Scunthorpe.

It also has lower-powered frequencies in Grantham, south of the town near the bypass, on 96. 7 FM and Trent View Flats ( near the John Leggott College ) in Scunthorpe on 97. 6 FM.

The M181 motorway links the town of Scunthorpe, England, to the M180 motorway.

Jacklin was born in the North Lincolnshire town of Scunthorpe in 1944, the son of a truck driver.

Also included is the nearby industrial town of Scunthorpe, a once important steel producing town, but now somewhat in post-industrial decline.

Centred on the town of Scunthorpe in North Lincolnshire, it elects one Member of Parliament ( MP ) by the first past the post system of election.

Although there was talk in a local newspaper in the 1930s that the town of Scunthorpe should have a parliamentary constituency named after it, it was only after the boundary reviews implemented in 1997 that a constituency of this name was created.

Previous incarnations of a constituency containing the steel town and small towns and villages around it had been called ( going backwards in time ) Glanford and Scunthorpe, Brigg and Scunthorpe, and Brigg.

Such is the quality of shopping in the area that bus services are run to bring in shoppers from across the county of Lincolnshire, especially from smaller towns such as Louth, Brigg, and Scunthorpe.

* Local services between Goole and Scunthorpe

The services that do exist almost exclusively serve the large population centres ( e. g. Lincoln, Grantham, Boston, Skegness, Grimsby, Cleethorpes, Scunthorpe ) and mid-sized market towns ( e. g. Horncastle, Gainsborough ) and a limited number of their dormitory and commuter villages.

They can also be found operating the Leeds-Morecambe services, services between Scunthorpe and Adwick to Sheffield and Lincoln and more recently from 2008, between Manchester Victoria and Leeds ( usually via Brighouse ) amongst others.

Current ( 2012 ) passenger services are CrossCountry long distance express services, and Northern Rail stopping services from Sheffield to Leeds ( via Wakefield Westgate ), and to Adwick or Scunthorpe ( via Doncaster ), along with infrequent East Midland Trains express services from London to Leeds, and Northern Rail stopping trains to York via Pontefract.

The two eastbound services head to Doncaster and beyond ( Scunthorpe, Adwick or Hull ).

Mondays to Saturdays there is generally an hourly service eastbound to Lincoln Central and westbound to Sheffield, from where the trains continue to Doncaster, Adwick and Scunthorpe with occasional services direct to Doncaster via Gainsborough Lea Road.

Stopping services on the line are provided by Northern Rail, with many branching off to Adwick or Scunthorpe.

No fast services run the entire length of the line, although CrossCountry trains link Sheffield with Doncaster, as do occasional East Midlands Trains services, while First TransPennine Express operates the South TransPennine route linking Sheffield with Scunthorpe via Doncaster

All services operate between Doncaster and Sheffield on a half hourly basis, one train an hour extends from Doncaster to Adwick VIA Bentley and the other extends from Doncaster to Scunthorpe VIA Thorne.

The other station in the town is Thorne South for services towards Scunthorpe.

Stopping services from Sheffield to Scunthorpe call at the station.

Stopping services from Sheffield to Scunthorpe call at the station.

* Local newspapers are the Bradford Telegraph and Argus, Evening Courier, Grimsby Telegraph, Huddersfield Examiner, Hull Daily Mail, Scarborough Evening News, Scunthorpe Telegraph, Sheffield Star, The Press ( York ), Wakefield Express, Yorkshire Evening Post and Yorkshire Post.

** Other terms in use are cuttings, 8-foots, 10-foots ( in Scunthorpe and Hull ), and snicket.

There are Further Education colleges in Selby, Scunthorpe and Bishop Burton.

The nearest professional teams are Doncaster Rovers, Hull City, Leeds United, Scunthorpe United, Sheffield Wednesday, Sheffield United and York City.

There are still many millions of tonnes of proven reserves of ore in Scunthorpe but it is cheaper to use imports for the time being.

There are also offices at Church Square House near the Scunthorpe Market.

The Scunthorpe Anchor swimming club are based at the Riddings Pool on Enderby Road next to South Leys School in Yaddlethorpe.

Other football clubs in Lincoln's geographical region are clubs such as Scunthorpe United, Grimsby Town and Hull City from the counties of North Lincolnshire, North East Lincolnshire and Humberside respectively.

Matches between Hull and Scunthorpe are often referred to as Humber Derbies, due to the fact that the teams lie either side of the River Humber.

Scunthorpe United's official team mascots are the Scunny Bunny and the Scunny Hunny Bunny, who wear the same claret and blue kit as the team's players do.

* 22 April 2006 — Walsall are relegated to League Two after losing 3 – 1 at home to Huddersfield Town and Rotherham United draw with Scunthorpe United.

Scunthorpe United are promoted to the Championship.

Although it is not known whereabouts in the station the scenes were placed, signs for Grimsby Town and Scunthorpe are visible behind Bolam.

By May 2008 HNRC had 16 Class 20s in storage and 8 operational of which two are on hire at Corus Scunthorpe ( nos 81 and 82 ).