Deeping St Nicholas is a village near Spalding in

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 ...

, England, on the

A1175 road The A1175 road is a road in south-west Lincolnshire, England. It runs between Stamford and Spalding, along the old A16 route. History It was previously designated as the southern section of the A16, but is now classified as the A1175 in f ...

between

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and Spalding. Unlike

Market Deeping Market Deeping is a market town and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, on the north bank of the River Welland and the A15 road. The population of the town at the 2011 census was 6,008. History The town's mar ...

, which is in

South Kesteven South Kesteven is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in Lincolnshire, England, forming part of the traditional Kesteven division of the county. It covers Bourne, Lincolnshire, Bourne, Grantham, Market Deeping and Stamford, Li ...

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, Deeping St Nicholas is in

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. Deeping St Nicholas is also a South Holland

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which includes the small settlements of

Tongue End __NOTOC__ Tongue End is a small village in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated east from Bourne and south-west from Spalding, and alongside the Counter Drain that runs between Baston and Pode Hole. Tongue E ...

and

Hop Pole Hop Pole is a hamlet in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated between Deeping St James and Deeping St Nicholas, and on the A1175 Littleworth Drove road. No separate population statistic is available for Hop Pole. ...

, and a number of outlying farms. Its population at the 2011 census was 1,961.

Village

The village has a 19th-century stone church, the

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. The ecclesiastical

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is part of the Elloe West

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of the

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. There is no incumbent. It is part of the South Lincolnshire Circuit of the Methodist Church The whole civil parish falls within the drainage area of the Welland and Deepings

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. At the Western end of the village is a

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for the

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, the site of the former

Littleworth railway station Littleworth railway station is a former railway station in Deeping St Nicholas, Lincolnshire, on the Peterborough to Lincoln Line. It opened in 1848 and was closed for passengers in 1961. Some of the station buildings and goods shed are still s ...

. The goods shed there was used for agricultural produce, including transshipment from the narrow gauge potato railway that also crossed the road. A

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opened on 2 January 1877 with a roll of 5 under a Mr Hanley. The current head teacher, Mr Tom Emery, oversees over 50 children. In 2008, eight large

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s, the blades of which are in length, were constructed on land to the north of the settlement.

History

In the 1086 ''

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'', the village is written as "Estdeping". From John Marius Wilson's 1872 ''Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales'': ::DEEPING FEN, a fen and a chapelry in Bourn district, Lincoln. The fen lies on the North Drove and the South Drove drains, between Market-Deeping and Spalding; and comprises upwards of 30,000 acres. About one-half consists of enclosed commons, included in parishes; and the rest is extra-parochial. The chapelry comprises the extra-parochial part; was constituted in 1846; bears the alternative name of Deeping-St. Nicholas; lies adjacent to North Drove railway station, and 5 miles WSW of Spalding; and has a post office, of the name of Deeping-St. Nicholas, under Spalding. Acres, 16, 290. Real property, £27, 681. Pop., 1, 180. Houses, 184. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £210. Patrons, the Trustees of the late W. Stevenson, Esq. The church was built in 1846. The Church of St Nicholas was built in 1846, in, nominally, the ecclesiastical parish of Deeping St Nicholas (the civil parish came into existence on 30 June 1856). In practical terms, the church became a temporary chapel-of-ease since Deeping St Nicholas was at first administered spiritually as a chapelry of St John's Spalding. In 1852 the chapelry was disbanded and the (ecclesiastical) parish became fully operational when the first incumbent vicar, Revd. Lewis E M Barnwell, was inducted and installed. The church was built by Charles Kirk, an architect from Sleaford, in Decorated style common in older surrounding churches.

Businesses

Most employment remains in agriculture. Other businesses are: * D. Steele (farming) * Vine House farm shop * J. A. Watts (Mareham) Ltd (farming) * J. Woodhead (farming)

References

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