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The area is very low-lying, and gave The Deepings their name (a Saxon name translatable as either 'deep places' or 'deep lands'). The villages are mentioned in the Domesday Book . Deeping Fen lies to the North, and the drainage of it was an important part of seventeenth and eighteenth century land reclamation.
It is the smallest of The Deepings group of villages [2] situated around the A1175 road. Village population is 277. [citation needed] The name 'Deeping' comes from the Old English deoping meaning 'deep place'. [3] Nave of St Andrew's Church, West Deeping. The Roman road of King Street passes through the village and crosses the A1175.
Market Deeping, with 2,462 households, [8] is the largest of The Deepings followed by the large village Deeping St James. The River Welland forms the border with the Peterborough unitary authority area. It is the seventh-lowest-lying town in terms of height above sea level in England.
Based around a now lost 12th-century Benedictine Priory, destroyed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, [3] the Grade I listed Anglican church of St James [4] is the largest church in The Deepings. It is a mixture of Norman, Early English and Perpendicular styles, [5] with a tower and spire added in 1717.
Renaissance composer Robert Fayrfax (Fairfax) was a native of the village. Fairfax House, the most prominent and grand property in the village, was home to the Fairfax Family. In the 1870s Wilson described Deeping Gate as: a hamlet in Maxey parish, Northampton; at the boundary with Lincoln, 1 mile SE of Market-Deeping. Real property, £1, 867 ...
Deeping St Nicholas is a village in Lincolnshire, England, on the A1175 road between The Deepings and Spalding. Unlike Market Deeping, which is in South Kesteven district, Deeping St Nicholas is in South Holland.
South Holland and The Deepings is a constituency in Lincolnshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 1997 creation by John Hayes, a Conservative. At the 2017 general election , the constituency recorded a higher Conservative share of the vote than any constituency since 1970 , with 69.9% of voters backing the party.
The settlements of, and within The Deepings in Lincolnshire, England: Market Deeping; Deeping St James; Deeping St Nicholas; Deeping Gate; West Deeping; Warwick Deeping (1877-1950), English author; HMT Warwick Deeping, British anti-submarine trawler in World War II