Town Hall, Cannon Street, Louth - 01507 601111 louthinfo@e-lindsey.gov.uk

Louth is a market town and civil parish within the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.

Known as the "capital of the Lincolnshire Wolds", it is situated where the ancient trackway Barton Street crosses the River Lud, and has a total resident population of 15,930.

The Greenwich Meridian crosses Eastgate and this point is marked with a plaque on the north side of the street, just east of the junction with Northgate. The three-mile (5 km) £6.6 million A16 Louth Bypass opened in August 1991. The former route is the B1520.

The town's name comes from the Old English hlud (loud) which was the name of the River Lud upon which the town was built and named after it.