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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.
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.
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; ... Pages in category "The Deepings" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
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.
Deeping Gate is a village and civil parish, lying on the River Welland in Cambridgeshire.Traditionally, the area was part of the Soke of Peterborough, geographically considered a part of Northamptonshire; it now falls within the City of Peterborough unitary authority area of Cambridgeshire.
West Deeping is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England.The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 255. [1] It is situated on the A1175 road, 5 miles (8 km) east from Stamford and 2 miles (3.2 km) west from Market Deeping.
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