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Brigg (formerly Glanford Brigg) in North Lincolnshire, England, is a small market town on the River Ancholme with a population of 5,076 in 2,213 households (2001 UK census).

History
The parish church is dedicated to St John the Evangelist and was built on the site of a former 17th-century chapel-of-ease.

The Workhouse at Brigg is one of the best known and best documented of its type, probably because of the national interest that arose after Percy Grainger collected traditional songs from the inmates. It was designed by William Adams Nicholson who also designed the similar building in Lincoln, and was built in 1835, replacing an earlier alms house dating back to 1701. The workhouse was the responsibility of the Glanton Brigg Union. It later became a hospital, and was finally closed in 1991.

Toponymy
The name 'Brigg' is an abbreviation of the town's former name, Glanford Brigg, possibly derived from the Old English "gleam" meaning revelry or merriment and "ford" meaning the ford in a river. Together the two could be "the ford where sports are held". Another suggestion of the town's name derivation is that, 'Glanford' is a corruption of 'glamping ford'--a glamping walkway is a type of interlocking planks, or logs over boggy ground. In the 19th century a wooden walkway was found in the River Ancholme, possibly forming a ford, but its exact location was not recorded. Brigg comes from the Old Norse "bryggja" meaning a jetty and was added to the name later referring to the bridge over the river Ancholme.

Commerce
Brigg has been a thriving market town for centuries, serving the largely rural villages on both sides of the river with a corn exchange and livestock market. Road communications were good with the old Roman road Ermine Street passing not far away. There are many old coaching inns, most notably The Angel on the route from Lincoln via Caenby Corner to the Humber Estuary (The Angel now is home to Brigg Town Council). The Ancholme also gave access to the Humber Estuary and the port of Kingston upon Hull and, earlier, to the historically important Medieval port of Barton-on-Humber. Much of the centre of Brigg is now a recognised Conservation Area.

Brigg became the administrative centre for the local area with a grammar school founded in 1669 by Sir John Nelthorpe, after whom the school, a comprehensive since 1976, is named. With the coming of the railways the town grew rapidly. Indeed it could have been still more important had Brigg been selected as junction for north-south lines with the east-west link to Grimsby. However, local opposition from the influential Carey family pushed much of the traffic through the nearby village of Barnetby-le-Wold.

Pubs include the Black Bull on Wrawby Street, the Exchange Hotel on Bigby Street, the White Horse Inn on Wrawby Street, the Nelthorpe Arms, the White Hart on Bridge Street, the Yarborough Hunt on Bridge Street, the Woolpack Inn and the Dying Gladiator on Bigby Street.

Industry
Past industries included Springs jam factory and the beet sugar factory to the west of the town. The sugar factory site to the south-west now contains a power station owned by Centrica. The jam factory, and the neighbouring livestock market, have been replaced by supermarkets (Tesco). The town is also home to the Falcon Cycles factory, the company having relocated to Brigg from near by Barton on Humber in the early 20th century. The company owns and uses a number of different brands including Falcon, British Eagle, Coventry Eagle, Townsend, Optima, Boss, Shogun, CBR and the flagship brand Claud Butler.

Today with the building of a bypass and the pedestrianisation of the town centre, Brigg has regained some of the relaxed qualities of a country market town with a small marketplace at its heart, still with a traditional street market on Thursdays and Saturdays. In recent years a thriving farmers' market has developed, held on the fourth Saturday each month selling a wide variety of local produce from pork and organic vegetables to ostrich meat and locally produced condiments. The main shopping street is Wrawby Street.

North Lincolnshire Council has its education offices on Bigby Street.
Brigg is also the home to the increasingly renowned, Brown's Auctioneers.

Education
Brigg has two secondary schools — the Vale of Ancholme School, a former secondary modern, and the Sir John Nelthorpe School, a former grammar school. Lincolnshire (West Lindsey), only a mile away to the south has selective education, but Brigg went comprehensive in 1977 when the boys' and girls' grammar schools were merged.

There is also Brigg County primary school and St Mary's Catholic primary school.[6] There was Brigg Preparatory School, however it closed down in early 2009. Which then became Demeter House Special school

Brigg also has a sixth form college which is combination of Vale of Ancholme and Sir John Nelthorpe.

Sport
Brigg is home to Brigg Town Football Club - the oldest club in the county, after forming in 1863, only six years after the first, Sheffield F C, making it one of the oldest clubs in the world. Brigg Town FC, often called the Zebras after their distinctive black & while striped home strip, has won the FA Vase twice - once in 1996 and again in 2003.

Nearly as old as the football club is the Ancholme Rowing Club which is based in Manley Gardens. It was founded in 1868 and still flourishes to this day.

Ancholme Leisure Centre is on Scawby Road (A18) towards Scawby Brook, west of the town.
The town also holds an annual triathlon event - cycling, canoeing and running.

Transport
The M180 bypassed the town on 2 September 1977. The A15 Brigg & Redbourne Bypass (the extension to the M180 from Hibaldstow) opened in December 1989. The A15 south, towards Lincoln, allows access to the A1(M) near Newark. The A18 passes east-west through the town, with the A1084 (Bigby Road) heading south-east to Caistor. Brigg also had the A15 north-south route passing through the town.

The shallow vale of the River Ancholme and its surrounding low-lying hinterland were extensively drained in both the C18th and C19th. Much of the old and somewhat tidal River Ancholme was canalised and lock gates were constructed at South Ferribly, its confluence with the Humber. A natural looping meander of the Old River Ancholme flows through Brigg, while the canalised section of the New River Ancholme allowed addition Victorian wharfage for river-side industries to develop further west from the town centre. The area between the Old and New River Ancholme is called Island Carr and Brigg Boat Club is located in its north section where the old and new river initially divide.

Brigg railway station is on a branch of the Sheffield to Lincoln Line (Grimsby Branch), but receives only six trains a week, all on Saturdays. There is a level crossing over the A1084.
Brigg offers ready access to North Sea ferry crossings from Hull, some 15 miles distant.
Humberside International Airport, near the village of Kirmington, is about 5 miles distant.

Brigg people
Joan Plowright, Joan Ann Olivier, The Lady Olivier, DBE (born 28 October 1929 in Brigg), known by her maiden name as Dame Joan Plowright, is a British actress, widow of Laurence Olivier. She was made a Dame (DBE) in the New Year's Honours for 2004. Joan was born on Central Square, Brigg. The Plowright Theatre in Scunthorpe (near Brigg) was also named after her.

Revd Richard Enraght (1837–1898), religious controversialist, Curate of St Mary's Church, Wrawby. 1866–1867.

The great concert and oratorio singer Gervase Elwes had a family home at Brigg Manor. He and Lady Winifrede helped to establish the musical events and singing contests at which their friend Percy Grainger collected a number of early folk-songs from the singing of Joseph Taylor of Saxby-All-Saints, and others.

David Yelland, former editor of The Sun from 1998–2003, went to the Sir John Nelthorpe School from 1976–81.

George Gouldthorpe (1839–1910) folksinger and Workhouse inmate, who provided many of the songs collected by Percy Grainger of the English Folk Dance and Song Society

Monty Oxy Moron (born 4 April 1947 in Brigg), is a keyboardist for the British punk rock group The Damned.

Source: Wikipedia

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