Fosdyke

Fosdyke

All Saints, Fosdyke
Fosdyke

 Fosdyke shown within Lincolnshire
Population 486 (2001)
OS grid reference TF316331
District Boston (borough)
Shire county Lincolnshire
Region East Midlands
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Boston
Postcode district PE20
Dialling code 01205
Police Lincolnshire
Fire Lincolnshire
Ambulance East Midlands
EU Parliament East Midlands
UK Parliament Boston and Skegness
List of places: UK • England • Lincolnshire

Fosdyke is a village and civil parish in Lincolnshire, England. It lies about 9 miles (14.5 km) south of Boston just off the A17, and 2 miles (3.2 km) east from the junction of the A17 with the A16. The village is near the mouth of the River Welland, and the parish extends across the river to include both ends of the hamlet of Fosdyke Bridge. The name derives from the Old English and Old Norse "fotrs dic", meaning Fotr's (personal name) ditch.[1]

Fosdyke is one of eighteen civil parishes which, together with Boston, form the Borough of Boston local government arrangement, in place since a reorganisation of 1 April 1974 which resulted from the Local Government Act 1972. Fosdyke parish forms part of the Five Villages electoral ward. 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 1888 Local Government Act Holland had been, in most respects, a county in itself.

Fosdyke Wash is shown by Ordnance Survey as the nearest coastal location to Coton in the Elms in Derbyshire, which is the furthest point from the sea in Great Britain, 113 kilometres (70 mi) away.[2]

Fosdyke's Grade II listed Anglican church is dedicated to All Saints.[3] In 1871-72 the church was entirely rebuilt in brick[4] on the site of an older church, in an Early English style.[5] In 1885 Kelly's reported the existence of a Primitive Methodist chapel, a coastguard station, and a 100 year old almshouse, founded Sir Thomas Middlecott for the Fosdyke and Algarkirk parishes.[5]

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Historical incident

By calculating the tide table for 12 October 1216 and given travel in the usual daylight hours, it is possible to deduce[says who?] that King John's treasure was lost in crossing the Welland in the vicinity of the site of the much later Fosdyke Bridge.

Village facilities

The village hall hosts bingo on Monday nights. There are no longer any shops, and the nearest post office is in Sutterton. The only remaining public house close to the village is The Ship at Fosdyke Bridge; many other pubs in the local area have closed. The only establishment within the village now selling alcoholic drinks is the Fosdyke Sports & Social Club, also a centre for pool, poker and darts competitions. The playing field, used by Fosdyke Football Club, also has an enclosed multisport area (opened in 2009) that can be used for five-a-side football, basketball and volley ball. Beside the social club building is a well-equipped children's adventure playground. Situated at the end of the playing field is Goodfellowship Bowls Club, which moved to Fosdyke in 1991.

Businesses operating from Fosdyke include the publishers of Murky Depths. There are also a number of small builders, handymen and producers of fruit and vegetables.

Population of Fosdyke Civil Parish
Year 1801 1811 1821 1831 1841 1851 1881 1891 1901 1911 1921 1931 1951 1961
Population[6] 173 166 272 215 400 420 477 433 436 449 509 626 508 483
Destinations from Fosdyke
Algarkirk, Sutterton, Bicker Kirton, Frampton, Boston Freiston Shore, Gibraltar Point
Gosberton, Quadring, Dowsby
   Fosdyke    
Surfleet, Pinchbeck, Spalding Holbeach, Whaplode, Moulton Gedney, Lutton, Long Sutton

References

  1. ^ "Fosdyke". Institute for Name Studies. University of Nottingham. http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~aezins/kepn/detailpop.php?placeno=10195. Retrieved 18 September 2011. 
  2. ^ Haran, Brady; BBC report centre of England "The farm furthest from the sea", BBC News, 23 July 2003. Retrieved 1 August 2011
  3. ^ "Church of All Saints", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 1 August 2011
  4. ^ Cox, J. Charles (1916) Lincolnshire p. 128; Methuen & Co. Ltd
  5. ^ a b Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull 1885, pp. 395, 396
  6. ^ "Vision of Britain". http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/data_cube_page.jsp?data_theme=T_POP&data_cube=N_TOT_POP&u_id=10416553&c_id=10001043&add=N. Retrieved 22 September 2011. 

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