Spalding (GB)

1858 SPALDING 727 Sideways Duplex

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Spalding (Info) is a market town on the River Welland in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England.The town is the administrative centre of the South Holland District. The town is located between the cities of Peterborough and Lincoln. As well as the towns of Bourne, March, Boston, Wisbech, Holbeach and Sleaford.

The settlement's name is derived from an Anglian tribe, the Spaldingas, who settled in the area during the 6th century. They may have retained their administrative independence within the Kingdom of Mercia into the late 9th century, when Stamford became one of the Five Boroughs of the East Midlands under Danish control after years of invasion and occupation. Spalding was a settlement mentioned in Domesday Book, in the hundred of Elloe and the county of Lincolnshire.

Ayscoughfee Hall dates from the 15th-century and is now operated as a museum.

Spalding Parish Church, dedicated to St Mary and St Nicolas, was built in 1284 by William de Littleport of Spalding Priory. The tower and spire were added in 1360.

The Church of St John the Baptist was built in 1875, at the same time as the adjacent Church school. St Paul's at Fulney, on the eastern side of the town, was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott and completed in 1880 after his death.

What links to here?

Royal Mail Delivery Office is situated midway bwteen Spalding and Pinchbeck.

Spalding was issued with the 727 Post Office numeral in 1844

Pinchbeck is a village and civil parish in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated 2 miles north from the centre of Spalding.

The name Pinchbeck is derived from either the Old English pinc+bece (Minnow Stream) or pinca+bece (Finch Ridge). A family long associated with the area took its name from the village, one member of which was Christopher Pinchbeck, a watchmaker responsible for the invention of the Pinchbeck alloy, which was once used for imitating gold in cheap jewellery.

Spalding

1858 SPALDING 727 Sideways Duplex

Spalding Square Circle of 1912 - normally used on mail leaving the town by train.

Sub-Offices

Fulney PO, Holbeach Road

This Post Office is current.

Little London PO

Current

Winsover Road

The original Post office at Winsover Road was at the junction with Carrington Road but has now closed and has been converted to housing. The Post Box remains on the Carrington Road side. The Post Office has relocated nearer the town centre at 7A Winsover Road.

Weston Hills (Weston St. John's)

Current

Pinchbeck

Knight Street

Main village office.

Railway

Spalding railway station is situated on the Lincoln Central - Peterborough railway line, operated by East Midlands Railway. The service is irregular, and it does not run at night or on Sundays. It does provide convenient access to Peterborough for employment and shopping. The service to Peterborough was withdrawn by BR in October 1970 as part of the closure of the East Lincolnshire route from Grimsby and Boston, but reinstated in June 1971 with a grant from Spalding Urban District Council. This was one of the first examples of this type of rail support in the UK and was not advocated in the Beeching Report.

Directly north the next station was Pinchbeck railway station, Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, England on the line between Spalding and Sleaford. The station opened in 1882, closed to passengers in 1961 and closed entirely in 1964.

The section of the Great Northern & Great Eastern 'Joint' line from March, which carried the 'Boat Train' between Harwich and Sheffield, closed in 1982.