Holbeach St Marks

Holbeach St Marks
Holbeach St Marks
Holbeach St Marks Holbeach St Marks shown within Lincolnshire
OS grid reference	TF377312
– London	95 mi (153 km) S
District	South Holland
Shire county	Lincolnshire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Spalding
Postcode district	PE12
Police	Lincolnshire
Fire	Lincolnshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
EU Parliament	East Midlands
UK Parliament	South Holland and The Deepings
List of places UK England Lincolnshire

Coordinates: 52°51′41″N 0°02′41″E / 52.861254°N 0.044592°E / 52.861254; 0.044592

Holbeach St Marks is a fenland village in the South Holland district of southern Lincolnshire, England. It is situated 4 miles (6 km) north from Holbeach, 3 miles (5 km) from The Wash, and at the centre of Holbeach Marsh.

The village church is dedicated to St Mark, and was built to the designs of Ewan Christian in 1868-69. In 1964 Pevsner mentioned that it was almost a copy of Christian’s Christ Church church at Gedney Dawsmere 4 miles to the east. It is constructed of red brick with stone bands, a brick-faced interior, lancet windows, and a combined nave and apse. The slate roof holds a bellcote.^[1]

T. H. White was once a resident at the village’s New Inn public house.^[2]

The village school is the Holbeach St Mark's Church of England Primary School for mixed gender 4 to 11 year olds, providing for pupils in the village and surrounding area.^[3]

Holbeach St Marks was home to the Tinsley Food plant, a major county employer supplying Safeway and Marks and Spencer. In 2001 it closed its factory with the loss of 850 jobs.^[4]

References

↑ Pevsner, Nikolaus; Harris, John; The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire p. 575; Penguin, (1964); revised by Nicholas Antram in 1989, Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-09620-8
↑ Townsend Warner, Sylvia (1967) T H White: A biography, Cape with Chatto & Windus.
↑ “The Holbeach St Mark’s Church of England Primary School: Inspection report”, Ofsted (2008). Retrieved 27 October 2011
↑ “Workers stunned by factory closure”, BBC News, 19 September 2001. Retrieved 27 October 2001

External links

Media related to Holbeach St Marks at Wikimedia Commons
Holbeach, Genuki. Retrieved 27 October 2011
Crowhurst, Richard; A Short History of Holbeach St Marks. Retrieved 27 October 2011

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Unitary authorities	North East Lincolnshire North Lincolnshire

Boroughs or districts	Boston East Lindsey Lincoln North Kesteven South Holland South Kesteven West Lindsey

Major settlements	Alford Barton-upon-Humber Boston Bottesford Bourne Brigg Broughton Burgh-le-Marsh Caistor Cleethorpes Crowland Crowle Epworth Gainsborough Grantham Grimsby Holbeach Horncastle Immingham Kirton-in-Lindsey Lincoln Long Sutton Louth Mablethorpe Market Deeping Market Rasen North Hykeham Scunthorpe Skegness Sleaford Spalding Spilsby Stamford Wainfleet All Saints Winterton Wragby See also: List of civil parishes in Lincolnshire

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Council	South Holland District Council

Civil parishes	Cowbit Crowland Deeping St Nicholas Donington Fleet Gedney Gedney Hill Gosberton Holbeach Little Sutton Long Sutton Lutton Moulton Pinchbeck Quadring Surfleet Sutton Bridge Sutton St Edmund Sutton St James Tydd St Mary Weston Whaplode

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