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Scunthorpe city (1991 pop. 79,043), in the Parts of Lindsey, North Lincolnshire, E England. Situated on an ironstone field, Scunthorpe was a center of iron and steel manufacture from the early 1900s to the 1970s. Today its principal industry is the manufacture of apparel.

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Scunthorpe, England/UK Escumetorp ‘Outlying Farmstead belonging to Skúma’ from an Old Scandinavian personal name and thorp ‘outlying, or dependent, farmstead’.

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Scunthorpe N. Lincs. Escumetorp 1086 (DB). ‘Outlying farmstead or hamlet of a man called Skúma’. OScand. pers. name + thorp.

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