Gedney Hill is a 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 ...

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, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 737. It is situated close to the border of

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, and approximately south-east of Spalding, west of

Wisbech Wisbech ( ) is a market town, inland Port of Wisbech, port and civil parish in the Fenland District, Fenland district in Cambridgeshire, England. In 2011 it had a population of 31,573. The town lies in the far north-east of Cambridgeshire, bord ...

and south of

Holbeach Holbeach is a market town and civil parish in the South Holland District in Lincolnshire, England. The town lies from Spalding; from Boston; from King's Lynn; from Peterborough; and by road from Lincoln. It is on the junction of the ...

Community

The name Gedney is from the Old English 'gaeda+eg', or "island of Gaeda". In 1885 ''

Kelly's Directory Kelly's Directory (or more formally, the Kelly's, Post Office and Harrod & Co Directory) was a trade directory in England that listed all businesses and tradespeople in a particular city or town, as well as a general directory of postal addresses o ...

'' noted the existence of an 1859-60 built school, endowed with church lands and holding 100 pupils, agricultural production of wheat, oats, potatoes and beans, and the French Drove railway station.''Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull'' 1885, p. 414 The

French Drove and Gedney Hill railway station French Drove and Gedney Hill was a station on the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway near Gedney Hill in south Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline ...

on the branch line between Postland and Murrow closed in 1964. The line was part of the

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. Gedney Hill Golf Club, designed by Charles Britton in 1989, has a 5257-yard parkland course of 18 holes. Gedney Hill

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listed

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parish church is dedicated to the

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. Dating from the late 14th century, it was heavily restored in 1874-75 by James Fowler. The

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included the entire rebuilding of the outer walls. The

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s are supported by octagonal oak

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s, and the roof by

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-style tie-beams. The

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east window is by

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.Cox, J. Charles (1916) ''Lincolnshire'' p. 136; Methuen & Co. Ltd

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; Harris, John; ''The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire'' p. 537; Penguin, (1964); revised by Nicholas Antram in 1989, Yale University Press. At the south of the churchyard, which also contains

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of two

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of the Second World War,CWGC
War Graves:Cemetery Reportdetails from casualty record. is a listed 15th-century cross, restored in 1918. The

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of Gedney Hill is part of the Whaplode Drove Group of the

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of Elloe East. The 2013 incumbent is The Revd R J Morrison. Further Grade II

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s are Gedney Hill Mill, and the Red Lion

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. Gedney Hill CE primary school is a Voluntary controlled

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. The current (2013) Headteacher is Mrs A Buddle. The school's 2010

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inspection found it to be Grade 2 (Good) for "overall effectiveness". The 2010 Diocese report stated that the school was "good" in its distinctiveness and effectiveness, leadership and management, and at meeting the needs of learners, with strengths in spiritual development and collective worship.National Society for Promoting Religious Education
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