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Spalding is a picturesque Lincolnshire market town that stands midway between Boston and Peterborough.
The South Holland area, "the heart of the fens", has been settled for thousands of years. It was reclaimed from salt and river marshes
which left Spalding in its present position inland on the river Welland.
There is evidence of Bronze age and extensive Roman settlements but most of the villages of South Holland are of Anglo Saxon origin, the name Holland being
Anglo Saxon for "high ground" - the villages were indeed built on the silt ridge around the Wash where food from the sea and marshes was plentiful.
During the past 200 years the Lincolnshire Fens have been drained and embanked by a succession of landowners and engineers - the resulting farmland
is among the most fertile in Britain.
It is the administrative centre of South Holland District Council and the centre of the flower and bulb industry. It is also the home of the Internationally
famous Spalding Flower Parade which attracts thousands of visitors every year with its colourful spectacle of carnival floats decorated with tulip and spring flowers.
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