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Lincoln City is cathedral city and country town of Lincolnshire, eastern England. Its name is a contraction of the Latin Lindum Colonia, which was the name of a colony for veteran Roman soldiers. According to the 2001 census, the non-metropolitan district of Lincoln had a population of around 87,000 and the entire urban area of Lincoln a population of 10,0000.
In 20th century the main industry was engineering in Lincoln, Today Lincoln is a market centre for an agricultural region and also possesses some manufacturing.
Lincoln has many medieval buildings, including the cathedral.
Lincoln Cathedral is an historic cathedral in Lincoln in England, and seat of the Diocese of Lincoln in the Church of England.
The railway reached Lincoln in 1846.
Lincoln has two higher education institutions, the oldest being Bishop Grosseteste University College, which started life as a teacher training college linked to the Anglican Church in 1862.
The University of Lincoln is one of the newest universities in the United Kingdom, founded in its current form in 2001, but with its roots in the nineteenth-century Hull School of Art.
The local newspaper is the Lincolnshire Echo, and the local radio stations are Radio Lincolnshire on 94.9FM and its commercial rival Lincs FM on 102.2 FM.
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