Tydd St Mary

Tydd St Mary
B1165 road near Tydd St Mary
Tydd St Mary  Tydd St Mary shown within Lincolnshire
Population	1,047 (2011)[1]
OS grid reference	TF443185
– London	105 mi (169 km)  S
District	South Holland
Shire county	Lincolnshire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	WISBECH
Postcode district	PE13
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°44′44″N 0°08′15″E / 52.745693°N 0.137496°E / 52.745693; 0.137496

Tydd St Mary is a village and civil parish in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England, about 9 miles (14 km) east of the town of Spalding and about 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. The Civil Parish includes the hamlet of Tydd Gote which lies partly in Tydd St Mary^[2] and partly in Tydd St Giles, Cambridgeshire.^[3]

St Mary Church

George Lambert, 'View of Dunton Hall, Lincolnshire' (1739)

The village has two medieval boundary crosses, one at Manor Hill Corner, which is Grade II listed^[4] and a scheduled monument,^[5][6] and White Cross which stands north of Poultry Farm at Hunts Gate at the western edge of the village and is a scheduled monument.^[7][8]

The parish church is a Grade I listed building dedicated to Saint Mary dating from the 12th century and restored 1869. It has a 15th-century west tower and a 15th-century font.^[9] At the entrance to the churchyard is a Grade II listed Lychgate dating from 1919.^[10] In the churchyard is a Grade II listed fragment of a medieval cross dating from the 14th century.^[11]

Tysdale House is an early 16th-century Grade II listed Hall with later alterations. The building was originally H Shape with an open hall, which was floored in the 17th century and the plan changed in the 18th.^[12][13]

The present Dunton Hall was built on the site of an earlier house, built by Sigismund Trafford who died in 1741. The present Dunton Hall dates from the early 19th century and is Grade II listed.^[14][15]

Tydd Station was a railway station on the Peterborough and Sutton Bridge Branch of the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway, which opened in 1866 and closed in 1959.^[16]

During the First World War an airfield was established here, during late 1916 or early 1917, as a Home Defence airfield for night patrols. It was used by 51 Squadron whose headquarters were at Marham B Flight, established at Tydd St Mary in the summer of 1917.^[17]

The village has a primary school.^[18]

References

External links

• Media related to Tydd St Mary at Wikimedia Commons
• Tydd St Mary CE Primary School

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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
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