Fleet Hargate
| Fleet Hargate | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 The Bull at Fleet Hargate | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF395249 |
| Location: | 52°48’15"N, -0°4’9"E |
| Data | |
| Population: | 838 (2007) |
| Post town: | Spalding |
| Postcode: | PE12 |
| Dialling code: | 01406 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | South Holland |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
South Holland and The Deepings |
Fleet Hargate is a village in Holland, the south-eastern part of Lincolnshire, two miles east of Holbeach, and just south of the A17 road.
The whole village has been designated a ‘conservation area’ by the local council.
The village has a post office at The Chestnuts tea room, a public house (the Rose and Crown), a caravan park, a day nursery, and a farm shop that includes a garden centre and tea room.
History
The village now sits just south of the A17, although previously the main road ran through the village. The Old Main Road as it is now named was part of the Boston to Lynn road,[1] managed in part by the original Holbeach Turnpike Trust.
The now closed Fleet railway station, formerly of the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway, is on Eastgate. It was served by the Fleet Light Railway, a potato railway built around 1910 to connect the Worth family farms to the mainline railway.[2] [3]
The Bull, originally a pub and lodging house is now a private house.
Outside links
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References
- ↑ Paterson's Roads, By Edward Mogg, Eighteenth Edition. 1832. Page 392
- ↑ Squires, Stewart E. The Lincolnshire potato railways. Oakwood Press, 1987, ISBN 0-85361-352-4
- ↑ Fleet Light Railway, Lincs To The Past, Lincolnshire Archives, Reference Name MLI22107. Retrieved 6 July 2015.