Gedney is one of a group of small villages south of Boston, Lincolnshire, straddling the A17 Boston to King's Lynn road, bearing the name "Gedney"; the others are Gedney Drove End, Gedney Dyke, Gedney Dawsmere, Gedney Hill and Gedney Broadgate.
The parishes of Gedney lie on reclaimed fenland, making it one of the most intensive crop-growing areas in the UK. A mile to the west is Fleet Hargate and two miles to the south-east is Long Sutton. The to...
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Gedney is one of a group of small villages south of Boston, Lincolnshire, straddling the A17 Boston to King's Lynn road, bearing the name "Gedney"; the others are Gedney Drove End, Gedney Dyke, Gedney Dawsmere, Gedney Hill and Gedney Broadgate.
The parishes of Gedney lie on reclaimed fenland, making it one of the most intensive crop-growing areas in the UK. A mile to the west is Fleet Hargate and two miles to the south-east is Long Sutton. The town formerly had a Gedney railway station, but it closed in 1959.
A hospital for five paupers, (St Thomas Martyr), was founded at Gedney, date unknown, and served from North Creake. It was dissolved around 1339.
There is the Chequers pub on Main Street in Gedney Dyke (north of the A17 along the B1387). There is the Old Black Lion pub on Chapelgate. The village church is dedicated to St Mary Magdalene, and is known as the Cathedral of the Fens. There is an old railway station on the former east-west Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway.
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