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Deeping St. Nicholas

Deeping Saint Nicholas
Deeping St.Nicholas church - geograph.org.uk - 364814.jpg
Deeping St Nicholas church
Deeping Saint Nicholas is located in Lincolnshire
Deeping Saint Nicholas
Deeping Saint Nicholas
Deeping Saint Nicholas shown within Lincolnshire
Population 1,961 (2011)
OS grid reference TF215160
Civil parish
  • Deeping St Nicholas
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town SPALDING
Postcode district PE11 3
Dialling code 01775 63
Police Lincolnshire
Fire Lincolnshire
Ambulance East Midlands
EU Parliament East Midlands
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Lincolnshire
52°43′42″N 0°12′07″W / 52.7284°N 0.20205°W / 52.7284; -0.20205Coordinates: 52°43′42″N 0°12′07″W / 52.7284°N 0.20205°W / 52.7284; -0.20205

Deeping St Nicholas, near Spalding in Lincolnshire, England is a village on the A1175 road between The Deepings and Spalding. Unlike Market Deeping, which is in South Kesteven district, Deeping St Nicholas is in South Holland.

Deeping St Nicholas is also a South Holland civil parish which includes the small settlements of Tongue End and Hop Pole, and a number of outlying farms. It has a total population of 1,323, increasing at the 2011 Census to 1,961.

The village has a 19th-century stone church, the parish church of St Nicholas. The ecclesiastical parish is part of the Elloe West Deanery of the Diocese of Lincoln. There is no incumbent. It is part of the South Lincolnshire Circuit of the Methodist Church

At 7 miles (11.3 km) long, the village has the distinction of being the longest in the United Kingdom.

The whole civil parish falls within the drainage area of the Welland and Deepings Internal Drainage Board.

At the Western end of the village is a level crossing for the Lincoln - Peterborough railway line, the site of the former Littleworth railway station. The goods shed there was used for agricultural produce, including transshipment from the narrow gauge potato railway that also crossed the road.


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