Quadring Eaudike is a hamlet in the

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district of

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, England. It lies approximately east from the A152 road, and south-east from Donington. Quadring Eaudike is within the

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Quadring Quadring is a small village and civil parish in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire. 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 ...

, a village 1 mile to the west. The name Quadring, historically ''Quedhaveringe'', is from the

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meaning "muddy settlement of the family or followers of a man called Haefer". Quadring Eaudike once contained a chapel, noted by Thomas Allen as not remaining in 1834. The previous

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was referred to in 1872 at which time a Primitive and a

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chapel existed.'' White’s History, Gazetteer and Directory of Lincolnshire'', p.801 In 1885 directory occupation listings included ten farmers, two

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s, and the

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of the New Inn

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.''

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of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull'' 1885, p.599 By 1933 there were seven farmers, one of whom was a cottage farmer and another a collector of Crown taxes, six smallholders, a fruit grower, and a beer seller.''Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire'' 1933, p.452

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{{Authority control Hamlets in Lincolnshire South Holland, Lincolnshire