Algarkirk

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Algarkirk is a village in Lincolnshire, about six miles south-south-west of Boston near the A16.

Now that the A16 road has been rebuilt on the former railway, Algarkirk village lies between this and the old road, now the B1397.

It constitutes a parish in the Five Villages electoral ward, one of eighteen rural electoral wards, each comprising one or more parishes which, together with Boston, form the Borough of Boston in the county of Lincolnshire, England. The local government has been arranged in this way since the reorganization of April 1, 1974, which resulted from the Local Government Act 1972.

Hitherto, the parish had formed part of Boston Rural District, in the Parts of Holland. Holland was one of the three divisions (formally known as parts) of the traditional county of Lincolnshire. Since the Local Government Act of 1888, Holland had been in most respects, a county in itself.

The village lies hard against the parish boundary with Sutterton, so that the two parish churches are six or seven hundred metres apart. While most of the parishes in Holland are more or less long and narrow so as to include both saltmarsh and fen, this was originally achieved in Algarkirk by having a detached fen about 12 kilometres away, in Holland Fen. This is now part of Amber Hill parish and ward. map