Wyberton

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Wyberton is a village in Lincolnshire, England. It is just south-west of Boston, and runs into it along the B1397 (former A16 - London Road) between Boston and Kirton. The A16 along the former East Lincolnshire railway bisecting the village in two.

Wyberton is one of eighteen 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. Wyberton forms an electoral ward in itself.

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 parish church is St Leodgar which is in the section of the village east of the busy A16. The village pub is the Pincushion Inn on London Road to the south of the village.