Quadring is a small village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

in the

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district of

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-west, Leicestershire ...

. It lies on the A152, north-east of Gosberton, and 2 miles south-east of Donington. The village includes the community of Barholme to its south-west. To the east of Quadring is

Quadring Eaudike Quadring Eaudike is a hamlet in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies approximately east from the A152 road, and south-east from Donington. Quadring Eaudike is within the civil parish of Quadring , a village 1 mile to ...

, and to the west is

Quadring Fen Quadring Fen is a hamlet in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated south from the A52 road, east of Billingborough and about north-west from Spalding. The village of Quadring Quadring is a small village a ...

. Nearby to the west is the

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. The A152 (as Main Road within the village) transects Quadring and provides links to Spalding,

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, Donington and Gosberton. The village name is derived from the

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"cwead+haefer+ingas" (Muddy settlement of Haefer), and is recorded in the ''

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'' as ''Quadheveringe'' and ''Quedhaveringe''. The Grade I listed village church, dedicated to

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, lies at Church End, north of, and separate from, the village. Mainly an example of

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architecture, it was rebuilt in 1872.Cox, J. Charles (1916) ''Lincolnshire'' p. 245; Methuen & Co. Ltd Other listed buildings include a Grade II cottage, house, granary, coaching house, farm, and farm house."Listed Buildings in Quadring, Lincolnshire, England"
British Listed Buildings; retrieved 25 June 2011

Amenities

The local school is the Quadring Cowley and Brown's primary school. Previously Quadring had three

public house A pub (short for public house) is a kind of drinking establishment which is licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises. The term ''public house'' first appeared in the United Kingdom in late 17th century, and was ...

s, a butcher, fishmonger, blacksmith, a slaughterhouse, and several pig farms. One of the public houses, The Black Bull was to the left of the Post Office; another, almost opposite the Post Office, was The Red Cow, which closed in 2002 and is now an Indian restaurant. Remaining is a village store (that serves as a post office), and The White Hart

on Town Drove.

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* {{authority control Villages in Lincolnshire Civil parishes in Lincolnshire South Holland, Lincolnshire