Whaplode Drove
| Whaplode Drove | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 Whaplode Drove church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF319133 |
| Location: | 52°42’8"N, 0°2’52"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Spalding |
| Postcode: | PE12 |
| Dialling code: | 01406 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | South Holland |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
South Holland and The Deepings |
Whaplode Drove is a village in the civil parish of Whaplode in Holland, the south-eastern part of Lincolnshire. It is string along a straight fenland road, an old droveway on the Whaplode Fen seven miles south of Whaplode itself and about the same distance south of the nearest market town, Spalding. A little hamlet, Shepeau Stow is a mile to the south-west and Holbeach Drove in a similar position parallel to Whaplode Drove just to the east.
Whaplode Drove is a largely rural village and stands in the middle of the Lincolnshire Fens.
Community
Village amenities include a post office with shop, a church, garage and a social club.
The village is the centre of its own ecclesiastical parish, Whaplode Drove, of which the parish church, on Broadgate, is dedicated to St John the Baptist. The parish is part of the Whaplode Drove Group in the Diocese of Lincoln. The only other parish in the group is Gedney Hill.
The church maintains a church hall,[1] and the village also has a war memorial, and The Elizabethan centre, a community hall intended to commemorate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, but which took until 1982 to be built.[2][3]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Whaplode Drove) |
- Whaplode Drove on Vision of Britain
- "Whaplode Drove". BBC Domesday. 1986. https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/dblock/GB-528000-312000/page/2. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
References
- ↑ "St John Baptist Church Hall". Community Lincs. http://www.lincscommunitybuildings.org.uk/venues/whaplode---st-john-baptist-church-hall/. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
- ↑ "History of Whaplode Drove". Whaplode parish council. Lincolnshire county council. http://parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Whaplode/section.asp?docId=59562. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
- ↑ "The Elizabethan centre". Details of Venues. Lincolnshire county council. http://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/VenueDetails.aspx?venuecode=1811. Retrieved 30 July 2013.