Moulton Seas End

Moulton Seas End
Lincolnshire
Farmland near Moulton Seas End
Location
Grid reference:	TF323272
Location:	52°49’34"N, 0°2’15"W
Data
Population:	850  (2001)
Post town:	Spalding
Postcode:	PE12
Dialling code:	01406
Local Government
Council:	South Holland
Parliamentary constituency:	South Holland and The Deepings

Moulton Seas End is a village in the Lincolnshire fens, amongst the scatter of villages and hamlets known collectively as The Moultons, which are together an extensive fenland parish of over 16 miles north to south, all within Holland, the south-eastern part of the county.

The village is five miles north-east of the centre of Spalding and two miles north-west of Holbeach. The main village of the parish, Moulton, is two miles to the south. Moulton Seas End population is included in The Moultons.

In 1885 Moulton Seas End (then just 'Seasend' or 'Seaend') was a mere hamlet. A school existed in which there was a chapel for worship, constructed by subscription in 1868. By 1933 occupations, in what was now a village, included twenty-three farmers, three cottage farmers, five smallholders, a potato merchant, a fruit grower, a butcher, a blacksmith, a higgler (an itinerant pedlar); two carpenters, two shopkeepers one of whom ran the post office, and the landlord of the Golden Lion public house.

The Golden Lion public house still exists and there is also a village hall and playing fields. The population of the village is about 850. The village war memorial commemorates twenty-two men killed in the First World War, and three in the Second.

Outside links

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• Information on Moulton  from GENUKI