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Post town
  
Shire county
  
Region
  
Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Postcode district
  
PE12

Holbeach Fen

District
  
South Holland, Lincolnshire

UK parliament constituency
  

Holbeach Fen is a fenland settlement and area in the South Holland district of southern Lincolnshire, England. It is situated 3 miles (5 km) south from Holbeach and 3 miles north-west from Sutton St James.

Map of Holbeach Fen, Spalding, UK

In 1885 Kelly’s noted that Holbeach Fen had become an ecclesiastical parish in 1867, had an area of 6,190 acres (25.1 km2) and an 1881 population of 872.

St John’s chapel of ease was erected in 1840 by Robert Eliot of Fleet on land donated by the Duke of Somerset KG, and by subscription, particularly from Bishop Kaye of Lincoln. Brick built in Early English style it was described by Pevsner in 1964 as consisting of a nave, short chancel, lancet windows, bellcote and shallow porch.

References

Holbeach Fen Wikipedia


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