- Quadring
Quadring is a small village north of
Gosberton ,Lincolnshire . Humorously the name literally means "muddy dump". It is also known as "deaths fen".History
The village is recorded in the "
Domesday Book " as "Quadheveringe" and "Quedhaveringe". [cite book| last =Williams | first =Ann | authorlink = | coauthors =G H Martin | title =Domesday Book: A Complete Translation | publisher = Penguin| date = | location = | pages =pp. 899; 907; 964; 1390 | url = | doi = | id = | isbn =9780141439945 ]The local school, Quadring Cowley and Brown's primary school, has consistently high SAT results every year and despite its size maintains a variety of extra curricular activities. Nearby to the west is the
Peterborough to Lincoln Line .To the east is [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/84476 Quadring Eaudike] . To the west is the even more remote [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/217006 Quadring High Fen] .
The A152 (known to locals as Main Road) transects Quadring and provides links to Spalding, Boston, Donington and
Gosberton . The village church, [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/84021 St Margaret's] , is - unusually - a good distance north from the village itself. This is an excellent example ofmediaeval architecture and local legend has it that the village took it upon itself to move away from the church to escape theBlack Death of the 14th Century.Amenities
At one point in its history Quadring had two pubs, a butchers, fishmongers, blacksmiths and a slaughterhouse, as well as several pig farms. However today all that remains is a solitary [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/351708 village store] that serves as a post office (this shop has changed hands many, many times over the last ten years) and one of the two pubs, The White Hart on "Town Drove". The other - The Red Cow - still exists and is located two doors away from the White Hart, however the owner of the Cow bought the White Hart, and closed the Red Cow down. The old pub was sold off, and has opened up as an Indian restaurant named 'The Curry Inn' in November 2007.
References
External links
* [http://www.quadring.info Quadring website]
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