Immingham (known to locals as Ming, Ming-Ming or Ming-Mong) is a town near Grimsby, in North East Lincolnshire, located on south bank of the River Humber.

The town contains a memorial marking the site of the 1608 departure of the Pilgrim Fathers to flee to Holland. The vessels sailed to Boston (Lincolnshire) and on to Holland then to Plymouth from where history records the sailings of the Mayflower.

During the Second World War, became the shore base (for a time) of Lord Mountbatten and the docks hosted his famous vessel, HMS Kelly. He roomed at the County Hotel.

The nearest train station is at Habrough on the Cleethorpes to Manchester line. There is a golf club. The local church is St Andrew. There is a sports centre and a swimming pool.

Public houses include the County Hotel and the De Kyme Hotel (both the town's largest), as well as smaller establishments such as the Mayflower and the Bluestone,

Nearby, Immingham Dock is a large port and industrial complex. The port partnership of Grimsby & Immingham is the largest port in the UK in terms of tonnage, with a total traffic of 55.9 million tonnes, 10% of the total, in 2003.

[edit] Refineries

Close to Immingham, oil is refined at the Lindsey (at North Killingholme) Oil Refinery by Total FinaElf (GB) Ltd and at the Humber Refinery (at South Killingholme) by Conoco Phillips (based in Warwick). They both own the Associated Petroleum Terminals. Oil began to be imported in 1970. The Killingholme Refineries opened in 1969, owned by Total and PetroFina. The refined fuel was transported to the rest of the UK by train. 70% of the refined oil from the Humber Refinery goes to the UK, the rest is for Europe. It is the only coking refinery in Britain, produced by catalytic cracking.

It also contains a large railway yard and depot. Large numbers of redundant railway vehicles have recently been scrapped at Immingham Railfreight Terminal. Much coal is imported through the port by SSM Coal Ltd.