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Gosberton is a village and civil parish in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated 9 miles (14.5 km) south-west of Boston, 6 miles (10 km) north of Spalding and 9 miles (14 km) north-west of Holbeach. The parish includes the villages and hamlets of Gosberton Clough and Risegate, Westhorpe and Gosberton Cheal. The population of Gosberton, which was approximately 2,500, increased to 2,958 at the 2011 Census. The place-name 'Gosberton' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Gosebertechirche and Gozeberdechercha. The name meant 'Gosbeorht's church', which was later changed to Gosberton, meaning 'Gosbeorht's town or settlement'. Eilert Ekwall comments, "Gosbeorht is probably a Continental name (Old High German Gauzpert, Gosbert from Gautberht)." The village was skirted by the A16 road but has been bypassed. The crossroads of the B1397 (Dowsby to Boston road) and the A152 (Donington to Surfleet road) which is known to the elder locals as “Snowhill” is located here. The Peterborough to Lincoln railway line crosses the B1397, at a level crossing in Risegate, and passes through the hamlet of Westhorpe further north. When this line was known as the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway, it had a railway station. The parish church of Gosberton is dedicated to St Peter and St Paul, and is under the Diocese of Lincoln. Gosberton Clough's wooden church is dedicated to St Gilbert and St Hugh. These two churches and that at Quadring are in the same Group, based in Gosberton. The Baptist Church in Gosberton was founded in 1666. At the time, non-conformist Christians had no protection from the law and, like John Bunyan, could be imprisoned for their faith. Worship takes place in the original 17th-century meeting house. The main occupation in the parish is farming. Some residents commute to jobs in surrounding areas and the larger towns of Spalding and Boston. Gosberton House Academy is a school for children with additional educational needs. Public houses within the parish are The Black Horse Inn, The Duke of York and The Five Bells Inn in Risegate, and the Bell Inn in Gosberton village. Just to the east of the village is a nature reserve administered by the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust.

Belnie is a hamlet in the civil parish of Gosberton, Lincolnshire, England.

Surfleet railway station was a station in Surfleet, Lincolnshire, England. It closed to passenger traffic on 11 September 1961. The rail line is now the A16 road, and no trace of the station can be found.

The Pinchbeck Engine is a drainage engine, a rotative beam engine built in 1833 to drain Pinchbeck Marsh, to the north of Spalding, Lincolnshire, in England. Until it was shut down in 1952, the engine discharged into the Blue Gowt which joins the River Glen at Surfleet Seas End.

Pinchbeck is a village and civil parish in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. The civil parish population was 5,153 at the 2001 census, 5,455 at the 2011 census and 6,011 at the 2021 census. It is situated 2 miles (3.2 km) north from the centre of Spalding. The name Pinchbeck is derived from either the Old English pinc+bece (Minnow Stream) or pinca+bece (Finch Ridge). A family long associated with the area took its name from the village, one member of which was Christopher Pinchbeck, a watchmaker responsible for the invention of the Pinchbeck alloy, which was once used for imitating gold in cheap jewellery. The Anglican village church is dedicated to Saint Mary, and is around 900 years old. It has a wide nave with mid-12th-century arches, and a 15th-century single hammer-beam roof supported by large gilded angels carrying the heraldic escutcheons of the Pinchbeck family. The chancel is by restorer Herbert Butterfield. Village schools are Pinchbeck East C of E School Primary School and Pinchbeck West St Bartholomew's C of E Primary School.

Spalding Power Station is a 860 MW gas-fired power station one mile north of Spalding on West Marsh Road close to the River Welland. The current site provides enough electricity for one million households.

Pinchbeck railway station was a station in Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, England on the line between Spalding and Sleaford. The station opened in 1882, closed to passengers in 1961 and closed entirely in 1964.

Wykeham /ˈwɪk.əm/ is a deserted medieval village in the civil parish of Weston in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. Wykeham is the site of the ruined chapel of Saint Nicholas and the earthwork remains of Wykeham Hall, which was the country residence of the Prior of Spalding. The limestone chapel, which was built in 1311, became a free chapel at the dissolution, but the roof collapsed in 1782 and it remains a roofless shell. The chapel is now a Grade I listed building and the site is a scheduled monument.

Castle is a ward and suburb of Spalding in Lincolnshire, England. It had a population of 2,563 at the 2021 Census.

St Paul's Church is a grade I listed church in Fulney, Spalding, Lincolnshire, England. It was designed by George Gilbert Scott in 1877–78, along with its schoolroom which is included in the listing and the grade II* listed vicarage, although it was not built until 1880, after his death.

Wygate is a ward and suburb of Spalding in Lincolnshire, England. It had a population of 6,585 at the 2021 Census.

Fulney is an area of Spalding, in the South Holland district, in the county of Lincolnshire, England. It is located to the northeast of Spalding town centre and is one of the oldest parts of the town. It became an ecclesiastical parish in 1877, and the Grade I listed St Paul's Church on Holbeach Road was built in 1880. In 1936 a Land Settlement Association was established at Fulney, made up of 38 tenanted smallholdings for unemployed miners from the north-east, at the time of the Jarrow March. Fulney now forms part of the wider Spalding urban area.