Click below for a details of local Buisnesses

Local Buisnesses

Pekins

Ravenhall Pure Bred Pekins for Sale
For Details either Phone
01775 822569
or Click here for Web Site

Gosberton Medical Centre

Lowgate, Gosberton,
Spalding, Lincs
PE11 4NL
Tele 01775 840204
For website click here

Swineshead Medical Group

Fairfax House,
Packhorse Lane
Swineshead, Lincs
PE20 3JE
Tele 01205 820204
For website click here

Local Police
&
Neighbourhood Watch

Community Beat Manager
Constable Ian Coulson
Assisted by P C Rob Greensmith

The Police Community Support Officers are:
Colin Abbotts & Sally Pusey

Local Photographs

Community Right to Build
An Opportunity in the Making

The Government is planning to give citizens more rights to decide what is built in their communities, including housing, local shops and community facilities.
Proposals for the Community Right to Build are currently before Parliament as part of the neighbourhood planning framework in the Localism Bill. If the Bill becomes law any successful proposal will need to be:

  • from a community group such as a community interest company or a community land trust, etc
  • independently assessed to see whether the proposals meet specific key criteria; and
  • supported by more than half of the community that vote in a referendum.

If you’re interested in a community-led development you should talk to your neighbours to get an idea about what sort of development the whole community would want to see. You may also want to talk to your local council, housing association or other community groups. You may also find it useful to get advice from people who already have experience of taking forward community-led schemes.
To find out more click here

If your community group is interested in using the Community Right to Build and wants to be kept in touch, tell us about your plans by clicking here

For information on community led developments visit any of the following web sites.

Community Land Trust Network

Locality

UK Cohousing Network

Action with Communities in Rural England

Confederation of Co-operative Housing

Can you give an abandoned animal the hope of a better 2012?

For the thousands of abandoned cats, dogs and other small animals who are struggling to survive out in the cold winter of Lincolnshire, their future is an uncertain one.

Here at Lincs Ark (animal welfare) we are already seeing the casualties of ‘out with the old and in with the new’ and not necessarily so old now, they may have simply lost their cuteness! Right now we are inundated with so many calls on a daily basis. Some animals are being given up through no fault of their own, their owners just cannot afford to keep them, or some have been found out in the cold, having been neglected and abandoned by their owner and a kind soul has taken the animal in, in the hope that we can provide the shelter and care it needs. Sadly we cannot take in every animal, we are stretched to capacity and we have a waiting list of animals desperate to come into our charity. We would love to be able to offer them all the warmth, food, love and shelter they so desperately need and deserve. For those that do come into our care, they will go to a foster carer until a forever home can be found for them. In the meantime, they will be checked out at the vets and given any treatment necessary, including neutering if needed, vaccinations, worming and flea treatment.

Harry was one of those cats. He was found cold, frightened and emaciated in the bottom of a ditch by a lady walking her dog. He would not have survived the winter, he was so thin. Yet this cat came up to his rescuer and was so trusting or perhaps he had no energy left to fight. He was taken to the local vet immediately, where he was checked over and also to see if he was microchipped (he was not) and then straight into foster care. He was so lethargic to begin with and would just lay in his bed all day, not even interested in playing! With love, food and warmth given to this gorgeous boy, he slowly put on weight, his coat became shiny and he started to play. It was slow progress, but to see him blossom into good health was all that we could ask for. And what of Harry now? Well, he does have that final happy ending and he has found his forever home with a wonderful family that adore him. Our job is done for Harry, but sadly there’s always another one waiting!

Can you help us save others like Harry and become a friend of Lincs Ark for just £1 a week?

Please consider becoming a loyal supporter of Lincs Ark (animal welfare), we cannot do this work without your help. By giving just £1 a week, your tax deductible donation will help us continue to give the love and care that an abandoned and neglected animal deserves. Please help us make a difference in 2012. You can donate by going onto our website www.lincsark.co.uk and clicking on the Charity Giving Link;
or set up a direct debit or send a cheque to – Lincs Ark (animal welfare), PO Box 155, Boston, Lincs PE21 9ZA or call 07880 716 121 for more information.

Thank you from all at Lincs Ark (animal welfare).

The parishes of Quadring, Gosberton, Gosberton Clough & Risegate and Surfleet are situated in the South Holland District of Lincolnshire They are in the area A52 in the north, A16 to the east, A151 to the south and the A15 to the west.

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In times past this area was mainly marshland, and the occupation of the Fenlanders was wildfowling and reed cutting
Then in the 1630s. King Charles 1 hired a Dutch engineer Cornelius Vermuyden, who had made a name for himself in drainage, in Holland. He was given the project of draining and maintaining the water levels in the Fen district. The Fen dwellers did not like this at all, a foreigner ruining their way of life, fishing, wild fowling and reed cutting, and they swore not to cooperate.
Vermuyden had to import workers from Holland and Flanders, but even the best of them found conditions very demanding.
The locals sabotaged the work, there were riots, river banks breached, sluices blown up and workmen attacked. Despite all these problems work continued, through the Civil War which began in 1632. A number of new drains were cut, including the Earith to Denver in Cambrideshire, 100 foot wide and 21 miles long. There were many more major drains, most of which are named after the width, such as the Twenty Foot and the South Forty Foot,and into these major drains ran the smaller dykes. There is one named drain of interest, that is the Paupers Cut north of Wisbech, named after and dug out by the paupers of that time. The drains and dykes were eventually finished in 1652, towards the end the main source of labour were prisoners of war, especially Scottish after the Battle of Dunbar. A special service was held in Ely Cathedral in 1652 to commemorate the completion.
On completion, the fenlands became prime farmland, sheep farming, growing a variety of vegetables, cereals and flowers.