Archaeological excavations at Wygate Park in Spalding have shown that there has been occupation in this area from at least the Roman period, when this part of Lincolnshire was used for the production of salt.
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14 Facts About Spalding Lincolnshire
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Spalding Lincolnshire is an important railway centre, while the river has been made navigable to the town for vessels of from 50 to 70 tons.
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River Welland flows north from Crowland, through Spalding Lincolnshire and passing the village and port of Fosdyke before leading out to the Wash, bisecting Spalding Lincolnshire from east to west; the town has developed as a linear settlement around the river.
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Around the northwest of Spalding Lincolnshire is a large waterway called Vernatt's Drain, named after one of the Adventurers who drained the Fens in the 17th century.
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Spalding Lincolnshire falls within the drainage area of the Welland and Deepings Internal Drainage Board.
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Nearest major acute hospitals to Spalding Lincolnshire are the Pilgrim Hospital in Boston and Peterborough City Hospital in Peterborough.
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Spalding Lincolnshire is located at the centre of a major region of flower and vegetable cultivation, due to the rich silty soil, which mainly comprises drained, recovered marshland or estuary.
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Spalding Lincolnshire has a popular, reasonably-sized, market every Tuesday and Saturday and on the first Saturday in every month a farmers market.
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Spalding Lincolnshire was chosen to host the World Tulip Summit in 2008, alongside a broader "Tulipmania" festival which coincided with the date of the fiftieth Flower Parade.
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Local football team is Spalding Lincolnshire United, who play in the Northern Premier League Division One South East.
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Spalding Lincolnshire, like nearby Boston, is a regular destination of heavy goods vehicles transporting processed vegetables and other food produce.
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Spalding Lincolnshire was on the east–west Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway, which had Bourne to the West and Holbeach to the east.
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On 4 May 2002, Spalding Lincolnshire had the honour of having a main-line diesel locomotive named after it.
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Spalding Lincolnshire had a community radio station, Tulip Radio, which broadcast from 2009 until it was uprooted in 2017.
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