Market Deeping
Encyclopedia
Market Deeping is a market town in Lincolnshire
, England
, on the north bank of the River Welland
and the A15 road.
and its eponymous market
has been held since at least 1220. The river here forms the Lincolnshire/Cambridgeshire
border with Peterborough
about 8 miles away. Situated at the southern extremity of Lincolnshire, the town forms part of the border with the Peterborough
City Council
.
The town is known for its stone buildings dating back to the 17th century, its largely 15th century church dedicated to St. Guthlac and the remains of a market cross
. Notable people from the town include Charles Hardwicke
.
Notable buildings include the Deeping Stage Hotel, the Towngate Inn and the Vine Inn. Also, there are the Bull Inn and Rigby's pub, which are situated in the Market Place, as well as the Old Coach House (located by the River Welland
).
The town has 2,462 households.
District Council. It sends three district councillors to SKDC which is based in Grantham
. It currently has one Conservative and two Independents, although since 1983 it has mostly returned Liberals and Independents. The first Green Party candidate stood in 2007 and was runner-up.
Most District Council election results since 1983 can be found here
The town and the neighbouring villages of West Deeping and Langtoft form the Market and West Deeping division of Lincolnshire County Council
which elects one councillor.
The town elects 15 councillors to form Market Deeping Town Council.
visited the Manor House on Church Street, as Patron of SENSE (for deafblind
people).
In February 2002 29 year old drug-taking Darren Taylor was killed when he tried to burgle a house in Spalding. His own knife was used to kill him by the 58 year old owner of the house, having threatened the occupants of the house with the 12-inch knife to their throats and demanded £5,000. No charges were incurred, when the CPS
decided the house owner had acted lawfully.
in October 2011.
was obliged to provide a site for the travelling community somewhere within South Kesteven. 19 sites were proposed, of which 5 were in or near Market Deeping. An initial public gathering occurred on 11 July in Market Deeping town centre in relation to the sites, outside the council chambers where many people chanted and expressed their opposition. On 27 July 2007, the strong local opposition to the proposed sites became clear at a public meeting chaired by the local MP
, John Hayes
, attended by about 2,000 local residents. Mr Hayes expressed his opposition to the sites within The Deepings
, only having Market Deeping as one of the proposed sites within his constituency - the other ones being in Bourne
, Grantham
and Stamford
, in the Grantham and Stamford constituency. The debate and public consultation is ongoing.
, formed in 1964.
The local rugby union
club is Deepings Rugby Union F.C. Deepings 1st XV - Champions of Midlands 6 East (South)2007.
The local swimming club is Deepings Swimming Club.
The local girls' football team is the Deeping Diamonds F.C.
Recent building work includes a skate park called Woody Heights (in nearby Deeping St. James) and a BMX
track adjacent to the remains of the original 1980s track, located on the John Eve Playing Field between residential houses and a large Tesco supermarket.
The local hockey club is the recently formed Bourne Deeping Hockey Club.
used by the town is the Deepings School
, located in nearby Deeping St. James. This is a well-regarded Academy school with a true-comprehensive intake, built as the Deeping County Secondary Modern School in 1958, becoming a comprehensive in the mid-1970s. The rest of South Kesteven
operates the grammar school
system, notably at Bourne
. The school had a meningitis
(C strain) outbreak in February 1987.
Market Deeping also has two primary schools, the Market Deeping William Hildyard CE Primary School and the Market Deeping Community Primary School.
. It is situated on Church Street, a location often lauded for being the prettiest street in Lincolnshire. The nearby rectory was, until recently, the oldest inhabited rectory in England.
The Catholic Church of St Mary and Guthlac on Hereward Way was consecrated in the late 1960s, replacing the nearby Waterton Chapel, a private place of worship
in the ownership of a local prominent Catholic family.
There are also Methodist and Baptist
churches in the Deepings, continuing the rich heritage of Nonconformist worship in East Anglia
and the Fens.
The life and exploits of St Guthlac are recounted in a medieval life; he was born into the Anglo-Saxon
aristocracy, retired as a hermit to an island in what was then the Fens and founded Crowland Abbey.
restaurant, the Boundary (towards Deeping St James).
visited Park Air Electronics on the Northfields Industrial Estate, accompanied by Sir Henry Nevile, then the Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire
. This company is now Park Air Systems, owned by Northrop Grumman
.
Best of British (magazine) is based on Market Gate.
In July 2010 the Eventus business centre was opened on the Northfields Industrial Estate - this is South Kesteven
's only purpose-built business centre, and financed with Lincolnshire County Council.
which broadcasts BBC local news service Look East and ITV Anglia, or the Belmont transmitter
for BBC Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire) and ITV Calendar (Yorkshire and Lincolnshire) although a lot of households in the Deepings have their aerials pointing west to the Waltham transmitter
which broadcasts BBC East Midlands Today and ITV Central. The Waltham transmitter has the strongest signal by far for the area.
For radio, the town is covered by both Radio Cambridgeshire
and BBC Lincolnshire. The area is one of the few in Lincolnshire to be covered by a local DAB multiplex - NOW Peterborough
.
There are a number of local newspapers covering Market Deeping (these include the Deeping Marketplace and more), although none of them are just for the town itself they are shared with larger towns nearby like the Stamford Mercury
. The town gets the Peterborough Evening Telegraph
daily.
Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, on the north bank of the River Welland
River Welland
The River Welland is a river in the east of England, some long. It rises in the Hothorpe Hills, at Sibbertoft in Northamptonshire, then flows generally northeast to Market Harborough, Stamford and Spalding, to reach The Wash near Fosdyke. For much of its length it forms the county boundary between...
and the A15 road.
Geography
It is the second largest of The DeepingsThe Deepings
The Deepings is a collective term used to describe adjoining villages near the River Welland, 8 miles to the north of Peterborough and 10 miles or so east of Stamford in England. The area is just north of the Peterborough border in the Lincolnshire fens...
and its eponymous market
Market
A market is one of many varieties of systems, institutions, procedures, social relations and infrastructures whereby parties engage in exchange. While parties may exchange goods and services by barter, most markets rely on sellers offering their goods or services in exchange for money from buyers...
has been held since at least 1220. The river here forms the Lincolnshire/Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire is a county in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the northeast, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west...
border with Peterborough
Peterborough
Peterborough is a cathedral city and unitary authority area in the East of England, with an estimated population of in June 2007. For ceremonial purposes it is in the county of Cambridgeshire. Situated north of London, the city stands on the River Nene which flows into the North Sea...
about 8 miles away. Situated at the southern extremity of Lincolnshire, the town forms part of the border with the Peterborough
Peterborough
Peterborough is a cathedral city and unitary authority area in the East of England, with an estimated population of in June 2007. For ceremonial purposes it is in the county of Cambridgeshire. Situated north of London, the city stands on the River Nene which flows into the North Sea...
City Council
Unitary authority
A unitary authority is a type of local authority that has a single tier and is responsible for all local government functions within its area or performs additional functions which elsewhere in the relevant country are usually performed by national government or a higher level of sub-national...
.
The town is known for its stone buildings dating back to the 17th century, its largely 15th century church dedicated to St. Guthlac and the remains of a market cross
Market cross
A market cross is a structure used to mark a market square in market towns, originally from the distinctive tradition in Early Medieval Insular art of free-standing stone standing or high crosses, often elaborately carved, which goes back to the 7th century. Market crosses can be found in most...
. Notable people from the town include Charles Hardwicke
Charles Hardwicke
Captain Charles Browne Hardwicke . was an English explorer, later a farmer. He was born in Market Deeping, Lincolnshire. He settled in Launceston, Tasmania in 1816...
.
Notable buildings include the Deeping Stage Hotel, the Towngate Inn and the Vine Inn. Also, there are the Bull Inn and Rigby's pub, which are situated in the Market Place, as well as the Old Coach House (located by the River Welland
River Welland
The River Welland is a river in the east of England, some long. It rises in the Hothorpe Hills, at Sibbertoft in Northamptonshire, then flows generally northeast to Market Harborough, Stamford and Spalding, to reach The Wash near Fosdyke. For much of its length it forms the county boundary between...
).
The town has 2,462 households.
Politics
The town is part of the South Holland and The Deepings Parliamentary Constituency but is also part of South KestevenSouth Kesteven
South Kesteven is a local government district in Lincolnshire, England, forming part of the traditional Kesteven division of the county. It covers Grantham, Stamford, Bourne and Market Deeping.-History:...
District Council. It sends three district councillors to SKDC which is based in Grantham
Grantham
Grantham is a market town within the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It bestrides the East Coast Main Line railway , the historic A1 main north-south road, and the River Witham. Grantham is located approximately south of the city of Lincoln, and approximately east of Nottingham...
. It currently has one Conservative and two Independents, although since 1983 it has mostly returned Liberals and Independents. The first Green Party candidate stood in 2007 and was runner-up.
Most District Council election results since 1983 can be found here
South Kesteven local elections
-Political control:No overall control 1973 - 1979Conservative 1979 - 1991No overall control 1991 - 2003Conservative 2003 - present-Council elections:South Kesteven Council election 1983 - PartialSouth Kesteven Council election 1987 - Partial...
The town and the neighbouring villages of West Deeping and Langtoft form the Market and West Deeping division of Lincolnshire County Council
Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...
which elects one councillor.
The town elects 15 councillors to form Market Deeping Town Council.
History
On 15 September 1995 Anne, Princess RoyalAnne, Princess Royal
Princess Anne, Princess Royal , is the only daughter of Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh...
visited the Manor House on Church Street, as Patron of SENSE (for deafblind
Deafblindness
Deafblindness is the condition of little or no useful sight and little or no useful hearing. Educationally, individuals are considered to be deafblind when the combination of their hearing and vision loss causes such severe communication and other developmental and educational needs that they...
people).
In February 2002 29 year old drug-taking Darren Taylor was killed when he tried to burgle a house in Spalding. His own knife was used to kill him by the 58 year old owner of the house, having threatened the occupants of the house with the 12-inch knife to their throats and demanded £5,000. No charges were incurred, when the CPS
Crown Prosecution Service
The Crown Prosecution Service, or CPS, is a non-ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom responsible for public prosecutions of people charged with criminal offences in England and Wales. Its role is similar to that of the longer-established Crown Office in Scotland, and the...
decided the house owner had acted lawfully.
Bypass
The £10m four mile long A15 and A16 bypass opened in July 1998, which incorporates a 2.5 miles (4 km) stretch of single and dual-carriageway. The A16 has now moved to the former A1073 from Crowland to Spalding, and the bypass became the A1175A1175 road
The A1175 road is a public highway in south-west Lincolnshire, England within the United Kingdom.It was previously designated as the southern section of the A16, but is being re-classified as the A1175 in early August 2010 following the completion of the new Peterborough to Spalding A16 section.The...
in October 2011.
2007 travellers' sites controversy
In 2007, at the behest of Whitehall, South Kesteven District CouncilSouth Kesteven
South Kesteven is a local government district in Lincolnshire, England, forming part of the traditional Kesteven division of the county. It covers Grantham, Stamford, Bourne and Market Deeping.-History:...
was obliged to provide a site for the travelling community somewhere within South Kesteven. 19 sites were proposed, of which 5 were in or near Market Deeping. An initial public gathering occurred on 11 July in Market Deeping town centre in relation to the sites, outside the council chambers where many people chanted and expressed their opposition. On 27 July 2007, the strong local opposition to the proposed sites became clear at a public meeting chaired by the local MP
Member of Parliament
A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...
, John Hayes
John Henry Hayes
John Henry Hayes FRSA is a British Conservative Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament for South Holland and The Deepings, and a member of the socially conservative Cornerstone Group...
, attended by about 2,000 local residents. Mr Hayes expressed his opposition to the sites within The Deepings
The Deepings
The Deepings is a collective term used to describe adjoining villages near the River Welland, 8 miles to the north of Peterborough and 10 miles or so east of Stamford in England. The area is just north of the Peterborough border in the Lincolnshire fens...
, only having Market Deeping as one of the proposed sites within his constituency - the other ones being in Bourne
Bourne, Lincolnshire
Bourne is a market town and civil parish on the western edge of the Fens, in the District of South Kesteven in southern Lincolnshire, England.-The town:...
, Grantham
Grantham
Grantham is a market town within the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It bestrides the East Coast Main Line railway , the historic A1 main north-south road, and the River Witham. Grantham is located approximately south of the city of Lincoln, and approximately east of Nottingham...
and Stamford
Stamford, Lincolnshire
Stamford is a town and civil parish within the South Kesteven district of the county of Lincolnshire, England. It is approximately to the north of London, on the east side of the A1 road to York and Edinburgh and on the River Welland...
, in the Grantham and Stamford constituency. The debate and public consultation is ongoing.
Sport
The local football team is the Deeping Rangers F.C.Deeping Rangers F.C.
Deeping Rangers F.C. is a football club based in Market Deeping, Lincolnshire, England. They were established in 1964 and originally played at Maxey Road until 1982, but did not move to Outgang Road until 1985; the move was due to a rent dispute with the land owner...
, formed in 1964.
The local rugby union
Rugby union
Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
club is Deepings Rugby Union F.C. Deepings 1st XV - Champions of Midlands 6 East (South)2007.
The local swimming club is Deepings Swimming Club.
The local girls' football team is the Deeping Diamonds F.C.
Recent building work includes a skate park called Woody Heights (in nearby Deeping St. James) and a BMX
BMX
Bicycle motocross or BMX refers to the sport in which the main goal is extreme racing on bicycles in motocross style on tracks with inline start and expressive obstacles, and it is also the term that refers to the bicycle itself that is designed for dirt and motocross cycling.- History :BMX started...
track adjacent to the remains of the original 1980s track, located on the John Eve Playing Field between residential houses and a large Tesco supermarket.
The local hockey club is the recently formed Bourne Deeping Hockey Club.
Education
The main secondary schoolSecondary school
Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...
used by the town is the Deepings School
The Deepings School
The Deepings School is a co-educational secondary school on Park Road in Deeping St James, near Peterborough in England. The school was recently awarded the status of Enterprise Academy.-Background:...
, located in nearby Deeping St. James. This is a well-regarded Academy school with a true-comprehensive intake, built as the Deeping County Secondary Modern School in 1958, becoming a comprehensive in the mid-1970s. The rest of South Kesteven
South Kesteven
South Kesteven is a local government district in Lincolnshire, England, forming part of the traditional Kesteven division of the county. It covers Grantham, Stamford, Bourne and Market Deeping.-History:...
operates the grammar school
Grammar school
A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and some other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching classical languages but more recently an academically-oriented secondary school.The original purpose of mediaeval...
system, notably at Bourne
Bourne Grammar School
Bourne Grammar School is a co-educational selective state secondary school in Bourne, Lincolnshire. The school has been awarded Arts College Status. It is situated on South Road .-Heraldry:...
. The school had a meningitis
Meningitis
Meningitis is inflammation of the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord, known collectively as the meninges. The inflammation may be caused by infection with viruses, bacteria, or other microorganisms, and less commonly by certain drugs...
(C strain) outbreak in February 1987.
Market Deeping also has two primary schools, the Market Deeping William Hildyard CE Primary School and the Market Deeping Community Primary School.
Religion
Market Deeping is home to the church of St. Guthlac, an Anglican establishment in the Diocese of LincolnDiocese of Lincoln
The Diocese of Lincoln forms part of the Province of Canterbury in England. The present diocese covers the ceremonial county of Lincolnshire.- History :...
. It is situated on Church Street, a location often lauded for being the prettiest street in Lincolnshire. The nearby rectory was, until recently, the oldest inhabited rectory in England.
The Catholic Church of St Mary and Guthlac on Hereward Way was consecrated in the late 1960s, replacing the nearby Waterton Chapel, a private place of worship
Place of worship
A place of worship or house of worship is an establishment or her location where a group of people comes to perform acts of religious study, honor, or devotion. The form and function of religious architecture has evolved over thousands of years for both changing beliefs and architectural style...
in the ownership of a local prominent Catholic family.
There are also Methodist and Baptist
Baptist
Baptists comprise a group of Christian denominations and churches that subscribe to a doctrine that baptism should be performed only for professing believers , and that it must be done by immersion...
churches in the Deepings, continuing the rich heritage of Nonconformist worship in East Anglia
East Anglia
East Anglia is a traditional name for a region of eastern England, named after an ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom, the Kingdom of the East Angles. The Angles took their name from their homeland Angeln, in northern Germany. East Anglia initially consisted of Norfolk and Suffolk, but upon the marriage of...
and the Fens.
The life and exploits of St Guthlac are recounted in a medieval life; he was born into the Anglo-Saxon
Anglo-Saxon
Anglo-Saxon may refer to:* Anglo-Saxons, a group that invaded Britain** Old English, their language** Anglo-Saxon England, their history, one of various ships* White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, an ethnicity* Anglo-Saxon economy, modern macroeconomic term...
aristocracy, retired as a hermit to an island in what was then the Fens and founded Crowland Abbey.
Public houses
There are several pubs on Church Street and in Market Square: the Vine, the White Horse, the Bull, the Towngate Inn Hotel, the Deeping Stage, Rigby's, The Old Coach House and others.Food
The town has an award-winning fish and chipFish and chips
Fish and chips is a popular take-away food in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and Canada...
restaurant, the Boundary (towards Deeping St James).
Economy
On 1 February 1994 Prince Edward, Duke of KentPrince Edward, Duke of Kent
The Duke of Kent graduated from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst on 29 July 1955 as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Scots Greys, the beginning of a military career that would last over 20 years. He was promoted to captain on 29 July 1961. The Duke of Kent saw service in Hong Kong from 1962–63...
visited Park Air Electronics on the Northfields Industrial Estate, accompanied by Sir Henry Nevile, then the Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire
Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire
This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire. Since 1660, all Lords Lieutenant have also been Custos Rotulorum of Lincolnshire.*Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln 1550/1552–?*Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland 1551–1563?...
. This company is now Park Air Systems, owned by Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman Corporation is an American global aerospace and defense technology company formed by the 1994 purchase of Grumman by Northrop. The company was the fourth-largest defense contractor in the world as of 2010, and the largest builder of naval vessels. Northrop Grumman employs over...
.
Best of British (magazine) is based on Market Gate.
In July 2010 the Eventus business centre was opened on the Northfields Industrial Estate - this is South Kesteven
South Kesteven
South Kesteven is a local government district in Lincolnshire, England, forming part of the traditional Kesteven division of the county. It covers Grantham, Stamford, Bourne and Market Deeping.-History:...
's only purpose-built business centre, and financed with Lincolnshire County Council.
Media
Market Deeping is covered by the Sandy Heath transmitterSandy Heath transmitting station
Sandy Heath transmitter is a television broadcast station located between Sandy, Bedfordshire and Potton near the B1042. It is owned by Arqiva, formerly NTL Broadcast. It was built in 1966, originally broadcasting Anglia Television on VHF 405-lines, UHF with 625-line services of BBC2, BBC1 and...
which broadcasts BBC local news service Look East and ITV Anglia, or the Belmont transmitter
Belmont transmitting station
The Belmont transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility, situated next to the B1225, one mile west of the village of Donington on Bain in the civil parish of South Willingham, near Market Rasen and Louth in Lincolnshire, England . It is owned and operated by Arqiva.It has...
for BBC Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire) and ITV Calendar (Yorkshire and Lincolnshire) although a lot of households in the Deepings have their aerials pointing west to the Waltham transmitter
Waltham transmitting station
The Waltham transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facilityat Waltham-on-the-Wolds, 5 miles north-east of Melton Mowbray. It sits inside the Waltham civil parish near Stonesby, in the district of Melton, Leicestershire, UK. It has a guyed steel tubular mast...
which broadcasts BBC East Midlands Today and ITV Central. The Waltham transmitter has the strongest signal by far for the area.
For radio, the town is covered by both Radio Cambridgeshire
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire is the BBC Local Radio service for the English county of Cambridgeshire. It originally broadcast from studios on Hills Road close to the train station in Cambridge - which have now moved to a new multi-million pound centre at the Cambridge Business Park on Cowley Road - ...
and BBC Lincolnshire. The area is one of the few in Lincolnshire to be covered by a local DAB multiplex - NOW Peterborough
NOW Peterborough
NOW Peterborough is a local commercial digital radio multiplex in the United Kingdom, which serves Peterborough and the surrounding area. NOW Peterborough is transmitted on frequency block 12D 229.072 MHz from trasmitters at Huntingdon , Peterborough and Stamford. It launched in November 2002...
.
There are a number of local newspapers covering Market Deeping (these include the Deeping Marketplace and more), although none of them are just for the town itself they are shared with larger towns nearby like the Stamford Mercury
Stamford Mercury
The Stamford Mercury based in Stamford, Lincolnshire claims to be "Britain's oldest newspaper". Berrow's Worcester Journal and London Gazette also claim this honour...
. The town gets the Peterborough Evening Telegraph
Peterborough Evening Telegraph
The Peterborough Evening Telegraph, or ET as it is known locally, is the local newspaper for the city of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire in the United Kingdom...
daily.
People from Market Deeping
- Charlotte Gibb, survived being shot in the head in 1997 whilst hitch-hiking in Israel, although her boyfriend was killed
- Gordon Underwood, sports psychologist (born in the town in 1933)
- Alan YauAlan YauAlan Yau , OBE is a London-based restaurateur who is best known for founding the Wagamama food chain in the United Kingdom...
, founder of Oriental restaurant chain WagamamaWagamamaWagamama is a British-headquartered restaurant chain, serving pan-Asian food in the style of a modern Japanese Ramen bar.-History:Created by Alan Yau, who subsequently created the Chinese restaurants Hakkasan and Yauatcha in London, the first Wagamama opened in 1992 off Gower Street in...
, whose father had a Chinese restaurant in the town in the 1980s
External links
- Market Deeping
- Market Deeping historical summary (UK & Ireland Genealogy Site)
- Deeping Community Site
- Deepings Online
- St Guthlac's church
- Town Council