Population 1,961 (2011) Civil parish Deeping St Nicholas | OS grid reference TF215160 Sovereign state United Kingdom Local time Sunday 1:31 PM | |
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Weather 7°C, Wind S at 23 km/h, 84% Humidity UK parliament constituency South Holland and The Deepings | ||
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Deeping St Nicholas, near Spalding in Lincolnshire, England is a village on the A1175 road between The Deepings and Spalding. Unlike Market Deeping, which is in South Kesteven district, Deeping St Nicholas is in South Holland.
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- Map of Deeping St Nicholas Spalding UK
- Village
- History
- Businesses
- References
Map of Deeping St Nicholas, Spalding, UK
Deeping St Nicholas is also a South Holland civil parish which includes the small settlements of Tongue End and Hop Pole, and a number of outlying farms. It has a total population of 1,323, increasing at the 2011 Census to 1,961.
Village
The village has a 19th-century stone church, the parish church of St Nicholas. The ecclesiastical parish is part of the Elloe West Deanery of the Diocese of Lincoln. There is no incumbent. The chapel built in 1867, is without a minister and due to close in 2017. It is part of the South Lincolnshire Circuit of the Methodist Church
At 7 miles (11.3 km) long, the village has the distinction of being the longest in the United Kingdom.
The whole civil parish falls within the drainage area of the Welland and Deepings Internal Drainage Board.
At the Western end of the village is a level crossing for the Lincoln - Peterborough railway line, the site of the former Littleworth railway station. The goods shed there was used for agricultural produce, including transshipment from the narrow gauge potato railway that also crossed the road.
A Primary School opened on 2 January 1877 with a roll of 5 under a Mr Hanley. The current head teacher, Anita Bandey, oversees over 50 children.
In 2008, eight large wind turbines, the blades of which are 42 metres (137.8 ft) in length, were constructed on land to the north of the settlement.
History
In the 1086 Domesday Book, the village is written as "Estdeping".
From John Marius Wilson's 1872 Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales:
The Church of St Nicholas was built in 1846, when a new parish was formed to supersede the former chapel of ease of Spalding. 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: