Editing Scunthorpe (section)

==History==
{{see also|Scunthorpe Steelworks#History}}

Scunthorpe as a town came into existence due to the exploitation of the local [[ironstone]] which began in 1859; iron production commenced in 1864, [[Scunthorpe Steelworks|steel smelting]] in 1891.<ref>Armstrong M. Elizabeth (ed.), ''An Industrial Island: A History of Scunthorpe''(Scunthorpe Borough Museum, 1983)</ref>

Scunthorpe's population grew from 1,245 in 1851 to 11,167 in 1901 and 45,840 in 1941. The boundaries of Scunthorpe expanded to include the former villages of [[Bottesford, Lincolnshire|Bottesford]], [[Yaddlethorpe, Lincolnshire|Yaddlethorpe]], [[Frodingham, Lincolnshire|Frodingham]], [[Crosby, Lincolnshire|Crosby]], [[Brumby, Lincolnshire|Brumby]] and [[Ashby, Lincolnshire|Ashby]]. Scunthorpe became an [[Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland)|urban district]] in 1891, merged as 'Scunthorpe, Brumby and Frodingham Urban District' in 1919, and became a [[municipal borough]] in 1936. Scunthorpe was originally dominated, socially, politically and culturally, by [[Rowland Winn, 1st Baron St Oswald|Rowland Winn]], the most significant landowner in the district. By the First World War local working class culture, drawing on trade unions and the Labour Party had emerged to challenge the Conservative Party's hegemony.<ref>Armstrong M. Elizabeth (ed.), ''An Industrial Island: A History of Scunthorpe''(Scunthorpe Borough Museum, 1983)</ref>

===Etymology===
The town appears in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086 as {{lang|la|Escumesthorpe}}, which is from the [[Old Norse language|Old Norse]] {{lang|non|Skumasþorp}} meaning "Skuma's homestead",<ref>{{cite book|title=A Dictionary of British Place Names|first1= A.&nbsp;D.|last1= Mills|publisher=Oxford University Press| location=Oxford| orig-year= first published 1991|date=2011|edition=First edition revised 2011|isbn=9780199609086|page=410}}</ref> a site which is believed to be in the town centre, close to Market Hill.