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St. Margaret's church, Quadring |
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Quadring
Quadring shown within Lincolnshire |
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| OS grid reference | TF 22541 33066 |
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| District | South Holland, Lincolnshire |
| Shire county | Lincolnshire |
| Region | East Midlands |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Peterborough |
| Postcode district | PE11 |
| Dialling code | 1775 |
| Police | Lincolnshire |
| Fire | Lincolnshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| EU Parliament | East Midlands |
| UK Parliament | South Holland and The Deepings (UK Parliament constituency) |
| List of places: UK • England • Lincolnshire | |
Quadring is a small village and civil parish in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies on the A152, 2 miles north-east of Gosberton, and 2 miles south-east of Donington.
The village includes the community of Barholme to its south-west. To the east of Quadring is Quadring Eaudike,[1] and to the west is Quadring High Fen.[2] Nearby to the west is the Peterborough to Lincoln Line. The A152 (as Main Road within the village) transects Quadring and provides links to Spalding, Boston, Donington and Gosberton.
The village name is derived from the Old English cwead+haefer+ingas ("Muddy settlement of Haefer"),[3] and is recorded in the Domesday Book as Quadheveringe and Quedhaveringe.[4]
The Grade I listed village church,[5] dedicated to St Margaret of Antioch,[6] lies north of, and separate from, the village. Mainly an example of Perpendicular architecture, it was rebuilt in 1872.[7]
Other listed buildings include a Grade II cottage, house, granary, coaching house, farm, and farm house.[8]
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.
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.
Previously Quadring had two pubs, a butcher, fishmonger, blacksmith and a slaughterhouse, and several pig farms. However today all that remains is a village store (that serves as a post office) and a public house, The White Hart, on Town Drove. A previous public house, The Red Cow, became an Indian restaurant in 2007.