Tydd St Mary 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 ...

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 ...

, England, about east of the town of Spalding and about north 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 ...

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. The

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 ...

includes the village of

Tydd Gote Tydd Gote is an English village, partly, at the north, in the civil parish of Tydd St Mary of the South Holland District of Lincolnshire, and partly, at the south, in the civil parish of Tydd St Giles of the Fenland District of Cambridgeshir ...

which lies partly in Tydd St Mary and partly in

Tydd St Giles Tydd St Giles is a village in Fenland, Cambridgeshire, England. It is the northernmost village in the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire (bordering Lincolnshire), on the same latitude as Midlands towns such as Loughborough, Leicestershire and Shrewsbu ...

. The village has a primary school, Tydd St Mary Church of England Primary School. Tydd St

George Lambert - View of Dunton Hall, Lincolnshire (1739)

History

Tydd (St Mary) is recorded in the ''

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''. The village has two

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boundary crosses, one at Manor Hill Corner, which is Grade II listed and a

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, and White Cross which stands north of Poultry Farm at Hunts Gate at the western edge of the village and is a scheduled monument. The parish church is a Grade I

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dedicated to

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dating from the 12th century and restored 1869. It has a 15th-century west tower and a 15th-century

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. At the entrance to the churchyard is a Grade II listed

Lychgate A lychgate, also spelled lichgate, lycugate, lyke-gate or as two separate words lych gate, (from Old English ''lic'', corpse), also ''wych gate'', is a gateway covered with a roof found at the entrance to a traditional English or English-style ch ...

dating from 1919. In the churchyard is a Grade II listed fragment of a medieval cross dating from the 14th century. Tysdale House is an early 16th-century Grade II listed Hall with later alterations. The building was originally H Shape with an open hall, which was floored in the 17th century and the plan changed in the 18th. The present Dunton Hall was built on the site of an earlier house, built by Sigismund Trafford who died in 1723. The present Dunton Hall dates from the early 19th century and is Grade II listed. William Stanger (died 1854) M.D., F.G.S., Surveyor General of Natal and member of the Niger Expedition of 1841, gave relics to the

Wisbech & Fenland Museum The Wisbech & Fenland Museum, located in the town of Wisbech in the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, is one of the oldest purpose-built museums in the United Kingdom. The museum logo is W&F. History Initially a member-based organisation ...

. Tydd Station was a railway station on the Peterborough and Sutton Bridge Branch of the

Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway The Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway (M&GNJR) was a railway network in England, in the area connecting southern Lincolnshire, the Isle of Ely and north Norfolk. It developed from several local independent concerns and was incorporated i ...

, which opened in 1866 and closed in 1959. During the

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an airfield was established here, during late 1916 or early 1917, as a Home Defence airfield for night patrols. It was used by

No. 51 Squadron RAF Number 51 Squadron is a squadron of the Royal Air Force. Since 2014 it has operated the Boeing RC-135W Airseeker R.1, more commonly referred to as the Rivet Joint, from RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire. It had previously flown the Hawker Siddel ...

whose headquarters were at Marham B Flight, established at Tydd St Mary in the summer of 1917. The village was struck by a weak F0/T0 tornado on 23 November 1981, as part of the record-breaking nationwide tornado outbreak on that day.

Notable people

Richard Young (MP) Alderman Richard Young, , (1809 – 15 October 1871) was a British merchant, shipowner and Liberal politician. Early years He was born on 22 March 1809 the second son of Mary (née Spickings) and John (died 1851), of Scarning, Norfolk. His ...

DL JP a sluicekeeper became mayor of

five times and

Sheriff of London Two sheriffs are elected annually for the City of London by the Liverymen of the City livery company, livery companies. Today's sheriffs have only nominal duties, but the historical officeholders had important judicial responsibilities. They have ...

References

External links

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Tydd St Mary C of E Primary School
{{authority control Villages in Lincolnshire Civil parishes in Lincolnshire South Holland, Lincolnshire