Fleet Hargate
{{Short description|Village in Lincolnshire, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}}
{{Use British English|date=October 2014}}
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|label_position = left
|official_name = Fleet Hargate
|population = 838
| civil_parish = Fleet
|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
|dial_code = 01406
|os_grid_reference = TF3925
|london_distance_mi= 90
|london_direction= S
}}
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Fleet Hargate is a village in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated {{convert|2|mi|km|1}} east from Holbeach, and just south from the A17 road. It falls within the wider civil parish of Fleet, which stretches from Gedney to Holbeach with a total estimated population in 2011 of 2,136.{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11123486&c=Fleet&d=16&e=62&g=6446974&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1440413605170&enc=1|title=Parish/Ward population 2011|accessdate=18 August 2016}}
Community
The village of Fleet Hargate{{cite web | publisher = South Holland District Council | url = http://www.sholland.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/43C9B53B-CD00-499B-A2CB-4D5276E9B06A/0/Fleet_HArgate.pdf | title = Plan Outlining the Fleet Haragte Conservation Area | accessdate = 4 July 2012 | archive-url = http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20120831005910/http%3A//www.sholland.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/43C9B53B%2DCD00%2D499B%2DA2CB%2D4D5276E9B06A/0/Fleet_HArgate.pdf | archive-date = 31 August 2012 | url-status = dead }} has been designated a conservation area by South Holland District Council, one of 13 within the district.{{cite web | publisher = South Holland District Council | url = http://www.sholland.gov.uk/environment/plandev/South+Holland+Conservation+Areas.htm | title = South Holland Conservation Areas | accessdate = 4 July 2012}}
Village amenities are a public house – the Rose and Crown, a caravan park, a day nursery, and a farm shop that includes a garden centre and tea room.
History
The village now sits just south of the A17, although previously the main road ran through the village. The Old Main Road as it is now named was part of the Boston to Lynn road,Paterson's Roads, By Edward Mogg, Eighteenth Edition. 1832. Page 392 managed in part by the original Holbeach Turnpike trust.
The now closed Fleet railway station, formerly of the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway, is on Eastgate. It was served by the Fleet Light Railway, a potato railway built around 1910 to connect the Worth family farms to the mainline railway.Squires, Stewart E. The Lincolnshire potato railways. Oakwood Press, 1987, {{ISBN|0-85361-352-4}}
The Bull, originally a pub and lodging house is (@2017) being turned into a private dwelling.
A Terrier of Fleet Lincolnshire is a 1920 publication based on the 11th-century manuscript Fleet Terrier – a 'terrier' is a legal document detailing land, similar to a Glebe terrier.[https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7193323M/ A Terrier of Fleet Lincolnshire], The British Academy. Records of the social and economic history of England and Wales, v. 4, (1920). Retrieved 26 June 2013{{explain|date=June 2013|reason=how does this publication relate to this settlement?}}
Alternate Spellings
References
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External links
- {{Commons category-inline|Fleet Hargate}}
- [http://parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Fleet/ Fleet Parish Council]
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