It is 4 miles (6 km) south of Grimsby close to the suburb of Scartho and to the smaller villages of Brigsley, Barnoldby-le-Beck, and Holton le Clay.

[citation needed] The Waltham name is of Saxon origin: Walt refers to woodland or an area of high forest and Ham to either an estate or a village.

Saxons may have changed the name from the Old English 'Wealdhant' which had the same meaning; the first part Ald, prefixed by We, meant "settlement", and Hant a "wooded estate".

[3] Waltham is part of the Cleethorpes parliamentary constituency, and has been represented by Martin Vickers of the Conservative Party since 2010.

[citation needed] A museum at the Waltham Windmill houses a section dedicated to RAF Grimsby.