Quadring

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Quadring is a small village north of Gosberton, Lincolnshire. Humorously the name literally means "muddy dump". It is also known as "deaths fen".

1 History
2 Amenities
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History

The village is recorded in the Domesday Book as Quadheveringe and Quedhaveringe.^[1]

The local school, Quadring Cowley and Brown's primary school, has consistently high SAT results every year and despite its size maintains a variety of extra curricular activities. Nearby to the west is the Peterborough to Lincoln Line.

To the east is Quadring Eaudike. To the west is the even more remote Quadring High Fen.

The A152 (known to locals as Main Road) transects Quadring and provides links to Spalding, Boston, Donington and Gosberton. The village church, St Margaret's, is - unusually - a good distance north from the village itself. This is an excellent example of mediaeval architecture and local legend has it that the village took it upon itself to move away from the church to escape the Black Death of the 14th Century.

[edit] Amenities

At one point in its history Quadring had two pubs, a butchers, fishmongers, blacksmiths and a slaughterhouse, as well as several pig farms. However today all that remains is a solitary village store that serves as a post office (this shop has changed hands many, many times over the last ten years) and one of the two pubs, The White Hart on Town Drove. The other - The Red Cow - still exists and is located two doors away from the White Hart, however the owner of the Cow bought the White Hart, and closed the Red Cow down. The old pub was sold off, and has opened up as an Indian restaurant named 'The Curry Inn' in November 2007.