Fleet Hargate Explained

Country:England
Coordinates:52.8041°N 0.0692°W
Label Position:left
Official Name:Fleet Hargate
Population:838
Population Ref:(2007)[1]
Civil Parish:Fleet
Shire District:South Holland
Shire County:Lincolnshire
Region:East Midlands
Constituency Westminster:South Holland and the Deepings
Post Town:SPALDING
Postcode District:PE12
Postcode Area:PE
Dial Code:01406
Os Grid Reference:TF3925
London Distance Mi:90
London Direction:S

Fleet Hargate is a village in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated 2miles east from Holbeach, and just south from the A17 road. It falls within the wider civil parish of Fleet, which stretches from Gedney to Holbeach with a total estimated population in 2011 of 2,136.[2]

Community

The village of Fleet Hargate[3] has been designated a conservation area by South Holland District Council, one of 13 within the district.[4]

Village amenities are a public house – the Rose and Crown, a caravan park, a day nursery, and a farm shop that includes a garden centre and tea room.

History

The village now sits just south of the A17, although previously the main road ran through the village. The Old Main Road as it is now named was part of the Boston to Lynn road,[5] managed in part by the original Holbeach Turnpike trust.

The now closed Fleet railway station, formerly of the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway, is on Eastgate. It was served by the Fleet Light Railway, a potato railway built around 1910 to connect the Worth family farms to the mainline railway.[6] [7]

The Bull, originally a pub and lodging house is (@2017) being turned into a private dwelling.

A Terrier of Fleet Lincolnshire is a 1920 publication based on the 11th-century manuscript Fleet Terrier  - a 'terrier' is a legal document detailing land, similar to a Glebe terrier.[8]

Alternate Spellings

Fleet Hard Gate[5]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: South Holland District Council . Annual Monitoring Report 06/07 . 15 February 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110613204558/http://www.sholland.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/97963365-E1E3-482B-B029-548A4B1CB108/0/AMR.pdf . 13 June 2011 .
  2. Web site: Parish/Ward population 2011. 18 August 2016.
  3. Web site: South Holland District Council . Plan Outlining the Fleet Haragte Conservation Area . 4 July 2012 . http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20120831005910/http%3A//www.sholland.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/43C9B53B%2DCD00%2D499B%2DA2CB%2D4D5276E9B06A/0/Fleet_HArgate.pdf . 31 August 2012 . dead .
  4. Web site: South Holland District Council . South Holland Conservation Areas . 4 July 2012.
  5. Paterson's Roads, By Edward Mogg, Eighteenth Edition. 1832. Page 392
  6. Squires, Stewart E. The Lincolnshire potato railways. Oakwood Press, 1987,
  7. http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayStandard.aspx?oid=225751 Fleet Light Railway
  8. https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7193323M/ A Terrier of Fleet Lincolnshire