Quadring Eaudike

{{Short description|Hamlet in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England}}

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{{Use British English|date=September 2014}}

{{Infobox UK place

|country = England

|static_image_name = File:United Methodist Church, Quadring Eaudike, Lincs - geograph.org.uk - 84475.jpg

|static_image_caption = United Methodist Church, Quadring Eaudike

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|label_position = top

|official_name = Quadring Eaudike

|population =

| civil_parish= Quadring

|shire_district = South Holland, Lincolnshire

|shire_county = Lincolnshire

|metropolitan_borough =

| metropolitan_county =

|region= East Midlands

|constituency_westminster = South Holland and The Deepings (UK Parliament constituency)

|post_town = Spalding

|postcode_district = PE11

|postcode_area = PE

|dial_code = 01775

|os_grid_reference = TF244336

| london_distance_mi = 95

| london_direction = S

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Quadring Eaudike is a hamlet in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies approximately {{convert|1|mi|km| sigfig=1}} east from the A152 road, and {{convert|2|mi|km|sigfig=1}} south-east from Donington. Quadring Eaudike is within the civil parish of Quadring, a village 1 mile to the west.

The name Quadring, historically Quedhaveringe, is from the Old English meaning "muddy settlement of the family or followers of a man called Haefer".Mills, Anthony David (2003); A Dictionary of British Place Names, Oxford University Press, revised edition (2011), p. 379. {{ISBN|019960908X}}

Quadring Eaudike once contained a chapel, noted by Thomas Allen as not remaining in 1834.Allen, Thomas (1834); The history of the county of Lincoln: from the earliest period to the present time, Volumes 1-2, p.358. Reprinted Nabu Press (2011). {{ISBN|1175054224}} The previous chapel of ease was referred to in 1872 at which time a Primitive and a Free Methodist chapel existed.White’s History, Gazetteer and Directory of Lincolnshire, p.801

In 1885 directory occupation listings included ten farmers, two blacksmiths, and the landlord of the New Inn public house.Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull 1885, p.599 By 1933 there were seven farmers, one of whom was a cottage farmer and another a collector of Crown taxes, six smallholders, a fruit grower, and a beer seller.Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1933, p.452