The North Forty Foot Bank is a settlement which runs about along the North Forty Foot Drain, about five to nine miles north-west of

Boston Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...

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. It begins just south of the parish of

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and runs along the drain to Toft Tunnel, just north of

Hubberts Bridge Hubberts Bridge is a village in the borough of Boston, Lincolnshire, England. It is situated within the civil parish of Frampton, and approximately west from Boston. The village name derives from the bridge crossing the South Forty-Foot Drai ...

. Despite its length, it only consists of the area on the north side of the drain, which was built in 1720 by Earl Fitzwilliam. The North Forty Foot Bank forms the boundary between Harts Grounds and Pelhams Lands. Woad1

A row of 29 brick and slate cottages were built between the North Forty Foot Bank and the hamlet of

Brothertoft Brothertoft is a village in Lincolnshire, England, about northwest from the market town of Boston. It is part of the civil parish of Holland Fen with Brothertoft . History Evidence has been found that the area now known as Brothertoft was kn ...

by Major John Cartwright to accommodate the workers of his red brick woad mill in the late 18th century. This place was then called ''Isatica'', which is

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for "

woad ''Isatis tinctoria'', also called woad (), dyer's woad, or glastum, is a flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae (the mustard family) with a documented history of use as a blue dye and medicinal plant. Its genus name, Isatis, derives from ...

". After Cartwright left Brothertoft for London, the hamlet of Isatica fell into ruin and disappeared. Formerly extra-parochial, the North Forty Foot Bank was created a

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 1858, but in 1906 became part of the civil parish of

Holland Fen with Brothertoft Holland Fen with Brothertoft is a civil parish in Lincolnshire, England, consisting, as the name indicates, of Holland Fen and Brothertoft, but also includes the areas known as Pelhams Land , Harts Ground and Pepper Gowt Plot. The population of ...

Settlements within North Forty Foot Bank include: * Pelhams Land * Harts Ground *

Holland Fen Holland Fen is a settlement in the Borough of Boston (borough), Boston, Lincolnshire, England. It is approximately north-west of the market town of Boston, Lincolnshire, Boston, and less than west of the River Witham. History Holland Fen ha ...

* Hedgehog Bridge lies about north west of

Boston, Lincolnshire Boston is a market town and inland port in the borough of the same name in the county of Lincolnshire, England. Boston is north of London, north-east of Peterborough, east of Nottingham, south-east of Lincoln, south-southeast of Hull ...

, on the North Forty Foot Bank. It was named after a hump-backed bridge over the drain which no longer exists. Hedgehog Bridge School was built in 1880 by the North-East Holland Fen School Board for 95 children. It opened on 4 April 1881, became a Council School in 1903, and a County School about 1947. It finally closed in December 1969, and was demolished in 2010.http://www.british-towns.net/en/level_4_display.asp?GetL3=20496 * Toft Tunnel lies at the junction of the North Forty Foot Bank and the B1192

Langrick Langrick is a small village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is in the civil parish of Langriville, and on the B1192 road, north-west from Boston. The village lies in the Lincolnshire Fens, and less than east from th ...

Road. Today it consists mainly of farms.

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* {{authority control Villages in Lincolnshire Former civil parishes in Lincolnshire Borough of Boston