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Fleet, Lincolnshire

Village and electoral ward in Lincolnshire, England

Summary

Village and electoral ward in Lincolnshire, England

Field	Value
static_image_name	Fleet parish church - geograph.org.uk - 73908.jpg
static_image_caption	Church of St Mary Magdalene, Fleet
country	England
official_name	Fleet
coordinates
population	2,136
population_ref	(2011)
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
os_grid_reference	TF388236
london_distance_mi	85
london_direction	S

Fleet is a village, civil parish and electoral ward in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies on Delph Bank, 3 mi south-east from Holbeach. The population of the civil parish, including Fleet Hargate, at the 2011 census was 2136.

History

In 1086, Fleet was listed as Fleot (Old English: the stream, estuary or creek), in the wapentake of Elloe in the Parts of Holland of Lincolnshire.

The Grade I listed Church of England parish church, dating from the late 12th century, is dedicated to St Mary Magdalene. The 120 ft church tower with spire is detached from the nave by 15 ft. The fabric is mainly Decorated in style, with Early English arcades and a Perpendicular west window. According to Cox (1916), the church was restored in 1860, when the chancel was rebuilt, although the canopied sedilia was retained. In 1964 Pevsner noted 1798 repairs and considered the church "over-restored". He dated a chancel rebuild to 1843, questioned if it was "done correctly", and recorded Victorian tracery in the aisle windows, a blocked doorway to a previous chapel in the chancel, "fine busts of great variety", a Decorated-style sedilia and piscina with ogee arches and crocketed gables, a reredos dated 1790, and a defaced 14th-century effigy.

Pevsner also recorded an 1854 red-brick rectory designed by Benjamin Ferrey and restored in 2005 by Steven Holmes and Peter Day. A motte south-west of the village where 11th- and 12th-century pottery has been found.

References

"Parish/Ward population 2011". Office for National Statistics.
[http://opendomesday.org/place/TF3823/fleet/ Open Domesday Online: Fleet, Lincolnshire]
{{NHLE
Cox, J. Charles (1916) ''Lincolnshire'' pp. 126, 127; Methuen & Co. Ltd
''[[Kelly's Directory]] of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull'' 1885, p. 394
[[Nikolaus Pevsner. Pevsner, Nikolaus]]; [[John Harris (curator). Harris, John]]; ''The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire'' p. 526, 527; Penguin, (1964); revised by Nicholas Antram (1989), Yale University Press. {{ISBN. 0300096208
The [[English Heritage]] record for the now ploughed-down motte site details finds from the [[Iron Age#Europe
{{gbmappingsmall. TF38562311 Site of motte, south-west of Fleet

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