Deeping St Nicholas
| Deeping St Nicholas | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 Deeping St Nicholas church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF215160 |
| Location: | 52°43’42"N, 0°12’7"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 1,961 (2011[1]) |
| Post town: | Spalding |
| Postcode: | PE11 |
| Dialling code: | 01775 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | South Holland |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
South Holland and The Deepings |
Deeping St Nicholas is a village and civil parish in Lincolnshire on the A1175 road between The Deepings and Spalding. Whereas the village itself lies in Holland, the parish extends into Kesteven, including the small settlements of Tongue End and Hop Pole, and a number of outlying farms. It has a total population of 1,961.
Village
The village has a 19th-century stone church, the parish church of St Nicholas. The ecclesiastical parish is part of the Elloe West Deanery of the Diocese of Lincoln, and part of a group with St John's, Spalding. The chapel built in 1867, is still open, forming part of the South Lincolnshire Circuit of the Methodist Church.
The whole civil parish falls within the drainage area of the Welland and Deepings Internal Drainage Board.[2]
At the Western end of the village is a level crossing for the Lincoln - Peterborough railway line, the site of the former Littleworth railway station. The goods shed there was used for agricultural produce, including transshipment from the narrow-gauge potato railway that also crossed the road.
In 2008, eight large wind turbines, the blades of which are 140 ft in length, were constructed on land to the north of the settlement.
History
In the 1086 Domesday Book, the village is written as "Estdeping".[3]
From John Marius Wilson's 1872 Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales:
- DEEPING FEN, a fen and a chapelry in Bourn district, Lincoln. The fen lies on the North Drove and the South Drove drains, between Market-Deeping and Spalding; and comprises upwards of 30,000 acres. About one-half consists of enclosed commons, included in parishes; and the rest is extra-parochial. The chapelry comprises the extra-parochial part; was constituted in 1846; bears the alternative name of Deeping-St. Nicholas; lies adjacent to North Drove railway station, and 5 miles WSW of Spalding; and has a post office, of the name of Deeping-St. Nicholas, under Spalding. Acres, 16, 290. Real property, £27, 681. Pop., 1, 180. Houses, 184. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £210. Patrons, the Trustees of the late W. Stevenson, Esq. The church was built in 1846.
The Church of St Nicholas was built in 1846, when a new parish was formed to supersede the former chapel of ease of Spalding. The church was built by Charles Kirk, an architect from Sleaford,[4] in Decorated style common in older surrounding churches. The Parish is again managed from St John's, Spalding, restoring the mediæval situation. The village name Deeping St Nicholas appears to date from this same time.
References
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Deeping St Nicholas) |
- ↑ "Parish population 2011". http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11124329&c=LN8+5LS&d=16&e=62&g=6446350&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1440344205451&enc=1. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
- ↑ "Welland and Deepings IDB". http://www.wellandidb.org.uk/.
- ↑ Mills, A. D. (1991). A Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford University Press.
- ↑ "Church History". http://www.stjohnsspalding.org/history.htm.
| Villages amongst 'The Deepings' in Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire |
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Market Deeping • Deeping St James • Deeping St Nicholas • Deeping Gate • West Deeping |
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See also: Stowgate • Frognall • Tongue End • Hop Pole |
