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Skegness sits on the edge of the Lincolnshire coast, looking out across the North Sea toward the Wash. Originally a quiet fishing village and a port, its character changed significantly in the late 19th century when the railway arrived and the Earl of Scarbrough began developing the wide, sandy foreshore. The town is laid out on a fairly logical grid, with the main thoroughfares trailing back from the clock tower - a local landmark built in 1898 to mark the Diamond Jubilee. Beyond the seasonal bustle of the Grand Parade, there are steady residential pockets and essential amenities that serve the community year-round, including a direct rail link to Grantham and Nottingham. The surrounding landscape is famously flat, dominated by the reclaimed marshlands of the Fens, which makes for vast horizons and a climate that is often bracing, though the town is statistically one of the drier spots in the UK. Just a few miles south, the Gibraltar Point National Nature Reserve offers a different perspective of the coastline, where the dunes and saltmarshes haven't been touched by development.