Editing Grantham (section)

===Urban area===
[[File:Grantham_town_centre_map.png|thumb|408x408px|Map of Grantham town centre. London Road, Wharf Road, Sankt Augustin Way and Barrowby Road form the A52. Harlaxton Road is the A607.]]
The historical core of Grantham is bounded by Westgate, Brook Street and Castlegate, and includes the High Street down to St Peter's Hill. This is the town's main [[retail]] and [[Commercial district|commercial]] area. It includes many historic buildings. Between Westgate and the [[A52 road|A52]] to the west are [[Post-war|postwar]] retail buildings and [[High-rise building|blocks of flats]]. North of it is 18th, 19th and 20th-century [[suburb]]an housing focused on North Parade, which include [[villa]]s and [[Terraced house|terraced]] housing.<ref>{{Harvnb |South Kesteven District Council |2011 |pp=47, 49, 53, 61, 86}}.</ref> Further north, off Gonerby Road and Manthorpe Road ([[A607 road|A607]]), these give way to large, low-density, suburban, privately owned housing on estates mostly built in the 1970s and 1980s. Those at the base of Gonerby Hill are known as '''[[Gonerby Hill Foot]]''' and lie west of the railway line, to the east of which developments are contiguous with the historical core of [[Manthorpe, Grantham|'''Manthorpe''']] village.<ref>{{Harvnb |South Kesteven District Council |2011 |pp=153, 155, 164}}</ref>{{Refn|group="n"|There is some 1930s-era and earlier post-war housing lining Manthorpe Road, the A607, and some older housing in Gonerby Hill Foot.<ref>{{Harvnb |South Kesteven District Council |2011 |pp=157, 160}}</ref>}}

South of the town centre, suburban housing takes the form of late-[[Victorian era|Victorian]] and [[Edwardian era|Edwardian]] brick, terraced and villa houses in [[Grid plan|grid-plan]] layouts, initially built for industrial workers and now largely owned or let privately.<ref>{{Harvnb |South Kesteven District Council |2011 |pp=103, 121}}.</ref> Alongside some housing in Harlaxton Road (A607), most of these streets cluster round [[Grantham railway station|the railway station]] and nearby retail and industrial units in an area known as '''Spittlegate''' (also spelled Spitalgate or Spittalgate), the town cemetery – an area called '''New Somerby''' in older maps – and the Wharf Road, London Road and Bridge End Road stretches of the A52.<ref name="bing"/><ref>{{Harvnb |South Kesteven District Council |2011|pp=105, 289}}</ref><ref>For New Somerby, see [https://www.old-maps.co.uk/#/Map/491500/334500/10/101230 "1:10,560 Ordnance Survey Map of Lincolnshire"] (dated 1947–50), retrieved via Old-Maps.co.uk on 16 December 2020.</ref> Further south-east, low-density, mostly privately owned, suburban housing estates of the 1970s and 1980s cluster round the A52, marking the edge of the town's urban area in an area of rising ground that forms part of '''Somerby Hill'''.<ref>{{Harvnb|South Kesteven District Council|2011|pp=182, 184, 186–188, 191}}</ref> Further east, off the A52, are the [[Prince William of Gloucester Barracks]], on the brow of the hill.<ref name="bing"/><ref>{{Harvnb|South Kesteven District Council|2011|pp=|p=182}}</ref>

The north-east fringe of the urban area is marked by 20th-century development. An exception is a piece of land east of the Witham and north of Stonebridge Road that includes schools and colleges and portions of a 19th-century barracks complex south of greenspace, including '''Wyndham Park'''. Otherwise the area between the Witham, Belton Lane, Londonthorpe Lane and the Lincoln Cliff has suburban housing, mostly privately owned with some let by [[housing association]]s. It includes part of the '''Harrowby Estate''', begun in 1928 as [[Public housing in the United Kingdom|council housing]]). The part round Belton Lane and Harrowby Lane is a low-density mix of pre-[[World War I|First World War]], [[Interwar period|interwar]] and postwar houses; the remainder of the large estate and the '''Cherry Orchard Estate''' appeared in the immediate postwar period in medium density, on a layout inspired by the [[Garden city movement|Garden City movement]]. South of Londonthorpe Lane and north-east of the other estates are medium and high-density housing areas dating largely from the 1970s to the early 21st century;<ref>{{Harvnb |South Kesteven District Council |2011 |pp=125, 129, 167, 169, 171, 174}}</ref><ref name=":2">For council estates, see {{Harvnb |Honeybone |1988 |pp=88–89}}</ref> The northernmost, known as '''The Spinney''' or '''Sunningdale''',<ref name=":1"/> adjoins the post-war '''Alma Park industrial estate''' off Londonthorpe Lane.<ref>{{Harvnb |South Kesteven District Council |2011 |pp=279, 288}}</ref>

The town's western fringe sits between the railway line, the [[A1 road (Great Britain)|A1]] bypass and the Kesteven Uplands. North of the canal are large, varied developments mostly from the 20th century, including the '''Earlesfield''' estate, begun as a council estate in the 1920s and expanded in the postwar period, industrial estates, and a [[leisure centre]] complex, all south of Barrowby Stream, by the expansive 1980s estate on '''Green Hill''', the Edwardian and Victorian villas lining Barrowby Road, and the large 1980s and 1990s estate to its north. Most of this is privately owned, but some is let by housing associations. The canal basin is lined with industrial, [[warehouse]], retail and office buildings that continue up to Dysart Road. South of them are Harlaxton Road (A607) and Springfield Road, round which separate residential developments have been built, including inter-war homes in Huntingtower Road, a 21st-century estate centred on Hudson Way, post-war social housing at Walton Gardens, post-war housing Denton Avenue, and late-20th-century developments at Harris Way.<ref name=":2"/><ref>{{Harvnb |South Kesteven District Council |2011 |pp=139, 141, 194, 198–200, 206, 208, 210–211, 218}}</ref>