Algarkirk is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Boston in Lincolnshire, England, 6 miles (9.7 km) south-south-west of Boston near the A16. Some people spell the village Algakirk. It has a population of 406.
The village was once served by a railway station on the now-closed line from Boston to Spalding. Now that the A16 road has been rebuilt on the former railway, Algarkirk village lies between this and the old road, now the B1397. The B...
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Algarkirk is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Boston in Lincolnshire, England, 6 miles (9.7 km) south-south-west of Boston near the A16. Some people spell the village Algakirk. It has a population of 406.
The village was once served by a railway station on the now-closed line from Boston to Spalding. Now that the A16 road has been rebuilt on the former railway, Algarkirk village lies between this and the old road, now the B1397. The Boston - Algarkirk Diversion opened in October 1991. The village primary school, the Fourfields school, is shared with Sutterton.
The village lies hard against the parish boundary with Sutterton, so that the two parish churches are six or seven hundred metres apart. While most of the parishes in Holland are more or less long and narrow so as to include both saltmarsh and fen, this was originally achieved in Algarkirk by having a detached fen about 12 kilometres away, in Holland Fen. This is now part of Amber Hill parish and ward (map).
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