Gosberton Clough

Westhorpe is a hamlet in the civil parish of Gosberton and the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. It is 30 miles (50 km) south-east from the city and county town of Lincoln, 6 miles (10 km) north from the nearest large town of Spalding, and 1 mile (1.6 km) west from parish village of Gosberton.Westhorpe is a linear settlement on the east to west Westhorpe Road. It is centred on the junction of Westhorpe Road with Windmill Lane which runs to the village of Risegate 1,000 yards (900 m) to the south. Adjacent to the east of this junction is a road bridge over the north to south National Rail line from Lincoln to Peterborough. Westthorpe Road, which starts at Gosberton, runs 1500yds to the west from the Windmill Lane junction, where it becomes Swale Bank (road) at the junction with Quadring Bank (road) which runs north.Today, Westhorpe is a settlement of detached properties including new-build houses and bungalows. There is a creative craft company, a soft furnishings company, and four farms. In 1872 Westhorpe was a hamlet of Gosberton parish. There were twelve farmers, a beerhouse owner, a miller, a grocer & draper, and a "thrashing machine owner".There are four Grade II listed buildings in Westhorrpe. At the west from the Windmill Lane junction is Yew Tree Farmhouse, which dates to the 16th century. It had a front facade added in the late 17th century, and was altered in the early 19th and the 20th century. The farmhouse is a mixture of two storeys with three bays, and a single storey with attic, and is in red brick laid in Flemish bond with a pantile roof. At the east from the Windmill Lane junction is an early 19th-century two-storey three-bay house of Flemish bond red brick, with sash windows, slate roof and a "lattice porch". Further west is an early 18th-century cottage, with later alterations from the 19th and 20th centuries. It is of three bays with sash windows, and in rendered brick. The pantile roof has gable dormers and attics. Further west is a single storey mid-18th-century cottage with three bays and a corrugated iron roof with dormer windows.Westhorpe is connected by bus to Quadring and Spalding. The nearest school is Gosberton Academy primary school in Gosberton village.

Quadring Fen is a hamlet in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated 2 miles (3.2 km) south from the A52 road, 5 miles (8.0 km) east of Billingborough and about 7 miles (11 km) north-west from Spalding. The village of Quadring is 2.5 miles (4.0 km) to the east. The smaller settlement of Quadring High Fen is 0.5 miles (0.8 km) to the south. Quadring Fen forms part of the Lincolnshire Fens which was an area of low-lying land prone to flooding prior to drainage works being carried out between 1635 and 1638.

Quadring is a small village and civil parish in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire. It lies on the A152, 2 miles (3.2 km) north-east of Gosberton, and 2 miles south-east of Donington. The village includes the community of Barholme to its south-west. To the east of Quadring is Quadring Eaudike, and to the west is Quadring Fen. Nearby to the west is the Peterborough to Lincoln Line. The A152 (as Main Road within the village) transects Quadring and provides links to Spalding, Boston, Donington and Gosberton. The village name is derived from the Old English "cwead+haefer+ingas" (Muddy settlement of Haefer), and is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Quadheveringe and Quedhaveringe.The Grade I listed village church, dedicated to St Margaret of Antioch, lies at Church End, north of, and separate from, the village. Mainly an example of Perpendicular architecture, it was rebuilt in 1872.Other listed buildings include a Grade II cottage, house, granary, coaching house, farm, and farm house.

Donington Road railway station was a station in Lincolnshire on the line between Spalding and Sleaford.

The A152 is a small non-primary A-road in Lincolnshire, from Donington to Surfleet linking the A52 and the A16, two major primary routes. Between Donington and Surfleet the road goes through three villages; Church End, Quadring, and Gosberton. To eliminate the number of speeding motorists who use the road for an easy way to get to and from Spalding, there is a speed limit of 40 miles per hour (64 km/h), higher in some places, this is so that traffic flows easier than a 30 miles per hour (48 km/h) speed limit would allow.

Donington is a village and civil parish in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. It is 8 miles (13 km) north from the market town of Spalding on the A152, is bypassed by the A52, and sits between the A16 and A17. The parish includes the hamlet of Northorpe, and falls within the drainage area of the Black Sluice Internal Drainage Board. Donington is the birthplace of the explorer Matthew Flinders.

Cowley Academy (formally The Thomas Cowley High School) is a mixed secondary school with Academy status, in Donington, Lincolnshire, England. As of 1 September 2022 it is part of the academy trust known as SLAT (South Lincolnshire Academy Trust)

The South Forty-Foot Drain, also known as the Black Sluice Navigation, is the main channel for the land-drainage of the Black Sluice Level in the Lincolnshire Fens. It lies in eastern England between Guthram Gowt and the Black Sluice pumping station on The Haven, at Boston. The Drain has its origins in the 1630s, when the first scheme to make the Fen land available for agriculture was carried out by the Earl of Lindsey, and has been steadily improved since then. Water drained from the land entered The Haven by gravity at certain states of the tide until 1946, when the Black Sluice pumping station was commissioned. The Drain was navigable until 1971, when improvements to the pumping station led to the entrance lock being removed. It is currently being upgraded to navigable status by the Environment Agency, as part of the Fens Waterways Link, with a new entrance lock being completed in December 2008, giving access to the first 12 miles (19 km) of the drain, and the upgrading of the southern section, including a link to the River Glen to allow navigation to Spalding forming phase 2 of the project.

Pode Hole is a village in South Holland, Lincolnshire, England. It is 2 miles (3.2 km) from Spalding and a similar distance from Bourne. The village lies at the confluence of several drainage channels, where two pumping stations discharge water into Vernatt's Drain from land in Deeping Fen to the South and West. Water from Pinchbeck South Fen to the North is also lifted into Vernatt's Drain. The village arose to service the pumping stations. The village is largely a ribbon development stretching from the pumping stations and the Fishermans Arms public house along Bourne Road toward Spalding. The village post office and small shop is now also a bed and breakfast, and an outside catering service. No separate population statistic is available for Pode Hole. The best available report is for the whole Pinchbeck civil parish, which covers several settlements north and east of Spalding with a total of 5,153. At the 2011 census population details can be found under the civil parish of Pinchbeck. The name may well be a reference to a marshy location, possibly with a population of frogs and toads. Pode Hole farm, near Thorney probably derives its name the same way. Pode Hole has one of the earliest rain gauge records of precipitation, beginning in 1726.Pode Hole falls within the drainage area of the Welland and Deepings Internal Drainage Board, successors to the original Deeping Fen commissioners.

Quadring Eaudike is a hamlet in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies approximately 1 mile (2 km) east from the A152 road, and 2 miles (3 km) 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".Quadring Eaudike once contained a chapel, noted by Thomas Allen as not remaining in 1834. The previous chapel of ease was referred to in 1872 at which time a Primitive and a Free Methodist chapel existed.In 1885 directory occupation listings included ten farmers, two blacksmiths, and the landlord of the New Inn public house. 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.

North Drove railway station was a station serving Pode Hole in Lincolnshire, England. It was on the route of the Spalding and Bourne Railway (opened 1866), later part of the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway.

Guthram Gowt is a small settlement in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated 5 miles (8 km) both east from Bourne and west from Spalding, and at a bend in the River Glen.