Cowbit

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Cowbit in UK (pronounced Cubbit by the locals) is in the English county of Lincolnshire, is a small village to the south of Spalding. Cowbit currently has a local pub, 2 public play areas, a village hall, a local shop/garage, a primary school, and the Church, Cowbit has the busy A1073 road running straight through the village on top of an earth bank which separates it from Cowbit Wash, a flood plain to the west of the village. The village is protected from the flood plain by an earth bank on which A1073 runs. The flood plain (Cowbit Wash) is now mostly arable land, and the Coronation Channel at Spalding (which is a relief channel) for the River Welland makes Cowbit Wash unnecessary and obsolete as a flood plain.

[edit] Historical past

Cowbit village once had a railway station on the line that went from Spalding to March, but the line is no longer in use. In years gone by, the water overflowed from the River Welland regularly and flooded Cowbit Wash, and in the winter time this water then froze over allowing skating to take place. The area is many miles long, and was an ideal place to hold the Ice Skating Championships.