Gosberton

Gosberton
Church of St Peter and St Paul, Gosberton
Gosberton  Gosberton shown within Lincolnshire
Population	2,500
OS grid reference	TF241313
- London	95 mi (153 km)  S
District	South Holland
Shire county	Lincolnshire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	SPALDING
Postcode district	PE11
Dialling code	01775
Police	Lincolnshire
Fire	Lincolnshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
EU Parliament	East Midlands
UK Parliament	South Holland and The Deepings
List of places UK England Lincolnshire

Gosberton is a village and civil parish in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated 9 miles (14.5 km) south-west from Boston, 6 miles (9.7 km) north from Spalding and 8.5 miles (13.7 km) north-west from Holbeach. The parish includes the hamlets of Gosberton Clough and Gosberton Risegate. The population of Gosberton is approximately 2500.^{[citation needed]}

The village was skirted by the A16 road but has been bypassed and sits on the crossroads of the B1397 (Dowsby to Boston road) and the A152 (Donington to Surfleet road). The Peterborough to Lincoln railway line passes across the B1397, at a level crossing in Risegate, and through the hamlet of Westhorpe further north. On this line, when known as the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway, was a railway station.^{[citation needed]}

The parish church of Gosberton is dedicated to St Peter and St Paul, and is under the Diocese of Lincoln. Gosberton Clough's wooden church is dedicated to St Gilbert and St Hugh. These two churches and that at Quadring are in the same Group, based in Gosberton.^{[citation needed]}

The Baptist Church in Gosberton was founded in 1666, a time when non-conformist Christians had no protection from the law and, like John Bunyan, could be imprisoned for their faith. Worship still takes place in the original 17th-century meeting house.

The main village occupation is farming, although many commute to surrounding areas and the towns of Spalding and Boston.^{[citation needed]}

Gosberton House School is for children with learning difficulties.

Public houses within the parish are the Black Horse Inn and Five Bells Inn in Risegate, and the Duke of York, Bell Inn, Crown Inn and Five Bells in Gosberton.

Just to the east of the village is a nature reserve administered by the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust.^{[citation needed]}

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Media related to Gosberton at Wikimedia Commons

• Gosberton Primary school
• Clough & Risegate Community Primary school
• Gosberton House school
• Boston Road Brick Pits
• Roffe, David. "TF 194282: Rigbolt House". www.roffe.co.uk. Retrieved 20 July 2010. 
• Roffe, David. "TF 225304: Cressy Hall". www.roffe.co.uk. Retrieved 20 July 2010. 
• Roffe, David. "TF 236325: Monks Hall". www.roffe.co.uk. Retrieved 20 July 2010.