Country: | England |
Coordinates: | 53.1618°N -0.3335°W |
Map Type: | Lincolnshire |
Official Name: | Metheringham Fen |
Static Image: | Metheringham Fen - geograph.org.uk - 2375945.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | Metheringham Fen |
Shire District: | North Kesteven |
Shire County: | Lincolnshire |
Region: | East Midlands |
Constituency Westminster: | Sleaford and North Hykeham |
Civil Parish: | Metheringham |
Post Town: | Lincoln |
Postcode District: | LN4 |
Postcode Area: | LN |
Dial Code: | 01522 |
Os Grid Reference: | TF073616 |
Metheringham Fen[1] [2] is a hamlet in the civil parish of Metheringham in North Kesteven, Lincolnshire, England.[3] It is located to the northeast of Metheringham, east of Dunston and southwest of Southrey.
Metheringham Fen was formally served by the Nocton Estate Light Railway[4] which was a small network of working light railway sidings which were connected to Nocton and Dunston railway station and ran as far as the River Witham near Bardney although were never connected to the Lincolnshire Loop Line at Bardney railway station. The railway sidings were simple agricultural railway sidings and worked by workers in the vast amount of fields between Bardney, Nocton and surrounding hamlets. They mostly collected potatoes grown in the marshlands.[5]
Metheringham Fen is close to the Metheringham Delph and the hamlet of Sots Hole.[6] It is located in a very rural and flat wetlands close to the River Witham.[7]