Sandtoft, Lincolnshire

Sandtoft
Sandtoft
	The Reindeer Inn, Sandtoft
	Sandtoft Location within Lincolnshire
OS grid reference	SE746080
• London	150 mi (240 km) S
Civil parish	Belton;
Unitary authority	North Lincolnshire;
Ceremonial county	Lincolnshire;
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Doncaster
Postcode district	DN8
Dialling code	01724
Police	Humberside
Fire	Humberside
Ambulance	East Midlands
UK Parliament	Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme;
Website	Belton Parish Council
	List of places UK England Lincolnshire 53.564010°N 0.874245°W

Sandtoft is a hamlet in the civil parish of Belton, North Lincolnshire, England.

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Sandtoft is in Hatfield Chase on the Isle of Axholme, 3 miles (5 km) north-west from Epworth. The village was served by the Isle of Axholme Joint Railway and was on the Fockerby branch with a goods station serving the former RAF airfield.

RAF Sandtoft was an RAF Bomber Command airfield. It opened in April 1944, closed in November 1945 and was sold for civilian uses in 1955. Today part of the site is Sandtoft Airfield and The Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft, Europe's largest trolleybus museum, is on another part.

Sandtoft and nearby Epworth, Lincolnshire were centres of unrest during the 17th draining of The Fens.^[1]

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