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Grimsby -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Grimsby was founded by the (A native or inhabitant of Denmark) Danes in the 9th Century AD, although there is some evidence of a small town of Roman workers sited in the area some seven centuries earlier. |
| | Grimsby is listed in the (Record of a British land survey ordered by William the Conqueror) Domesday Book, having a population of around 200, a priest, a mill and a ferry. |
| | The town was granted its charter by (Youngest son of Henry II; King of England from 1199 to 1216; succeeded to the throne on the death of his brother Richard I; lost his French possessions; in 1215 John was compelled by the barons to sign the Magna Carta (1167-1216)) King John in 1201. |
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