Holbeach Fen
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| Holbeach Fen | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 Farm track by Holbeach Fen | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF362212 |
| Location: | 52°46’18"N, -0°1’4"E |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Spalding |
| Postcode: | PE12 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | South Holland |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
South Holland and The Deepings |
Holbeach Fen is a fenland settlement and area in Holland, the south-eastern part of Lincolnshire. It is found three miles south of Holbeach and three miles north-west of Sutton St James.
In 1885 Kelly’s noted that Holbeach Fen had become an ecclesiastical parish in 1867, had an area of 6,190 acres and an 1881 population of 872.
Church
The church here, St John’s, was built as a chapel of ease in 1840 by Robert Eliot of Fleet on land donated by the Duke of Somerset, and by subscription, particularly from Bishop Kaye of Lincoln.[1][2]
Brick-built in 'Early English' style, the church was described by Pevsner in 1964 as consisting of a nave, short chancel, lancet windows, bellcote and shallow porch.[3]
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References
- ↑ Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull 1885, p. 477
- ↑ Rose, Hugh James; Maitland, Samuel Roffey (1838) The British Magazine, and Monthly Register of Religious and Ecclesiastical Information, Parochial History, and Documents Respecting the State of the Poor Progress of Education volume 13, p. 354. Retrieved 28 October 2011
- ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, 1964; 1989 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09620-0