Gipsey Bridge
| Gipsey Bridge | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 Gipsey Bridge | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF280499 |
| Location: | 53°1’54"N, 0°5’34"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 322 (2011) |
| Post town: | Boston |
| Postcode: | PE22 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | East Lindsey |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Boston and Skegness |
Gipsey Bridge is a hamlet in the Lincolnshire fenland: It is the main hamlet of a wider parish known as Thornton le Fen, though there is now no village of the latter name, in the Horncastle Soke, in about the southernmost points of Lindsey, the county's northern part.
Thornton Le Fen is about four miles north of Holland's main town, Boston.
Thornton Le Fen lies in Wildmore Fen, created in 1812 after the fen was drained in 1802.[1] It is mostly farmland with a population of 345, and contains the hamlets of Bunkers Hill and Gipsey Bridge.[2] The Census of 2011 showed a reduced population of 322.
Gipsey Bridge School was built in 1859 and was taken over by the Wildmore Fen United District School Board in 1879, when it was renamed the Gipsey Bridge Board School, until the Board was abolished in 1903.[3] Following this it was known as Thornton Le Fen Council School, Thornton Le Fen County School, and Gipsey Bridge County Primary School, before it took its present name, Gipsey Bridge Primary School, in 1999.[4]
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References
- ↑ Thompson, Pishey (1856). The History and Antiquities of Boston. Longman. p. 641. https://archive.org/details/historyandantiq00thomgoog.
- ↑ Information on Gipsey Bridge from GENUKI
- ↑ Wildmore Fen United District School Board: Lincs to the Past
- ↑ Gipsey Bridge Primary School: Lincs to the Past
