Fosdyke
Fosdyke is a village in
Lincolnshire, around nine miles south of
Boston by road (on the
A16 and
A17). The village is near the mouth of the
River Welland, and the parish extends across the river to include both ends of the hamlet of
Fosdyke Bridge.
Fosdyke is one of eighteen
parishes which, together with Boston, form the
Borough of Boston in the
county of
Lincolnshire,
England. The local government has been arranged in this way since the reorganization of
April 1 1974, which resulted from the
Local Government Act 1972. This parish forms part of the Five Villages electoral ward.
Hitherto, the parish had formed part of Boston Rural District, in the
Parts of Holland. Holland was one of the three divisions (formally known as
parts) of the traditional county of Lincolnshire. Since the
Local Government Act of
1888, Holland had been in most respects, a county in itself.
By calculating the
tide table for
12 October 1216 and given travel in the usual daylight hours, it is possible to deduce that
King John's treasure was lost in crossing the Welland in the vicinity of the site of the much later, Fosdyke Bridge.
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