Spalding, Lincolnshire - River Welland - Jay Em Jay postcard c.1910s

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  • Picture / Image:  River Welland, Spalding, Lincolnshire
  • Publisher:  Jackson & Son, Grimsby
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Spalding is a market town with a population of 28,722 (2011 census) on the River Welland in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. Little London is a hamlet directly south of Spalding on the B1172, whilst Pinchbeck, a village to the north, is part of the built-up area.

The town was well known for its annual Spalding Flower Parade, dating from 1959,[1] which attracted many regular visitors from around the world. The parade celebrated the region's vast tulip production and the link between the fens and the landscape of South Holland. The 2013 parade was announced to be the last.[2] Since 2002 the town has held an annual Pumpkin Festival (not linked to Hallowe'en) in October.

Excavations at Wygate Park in Spalding have shown that there has been occupation in this area from at least the Roman period, when this part of Lincolnshire was used for the production of salt to which it was suited, being a coastal siltland. At Wygate Park salt making seems to have come to an end by the mid-3rd century AD however, climatic change and flooding may have made such activities difficult, causing it to die out.[3]

The settlement's name is derived from an Anglian tribe, the Spaldingas, who settled in the area during the 6th century, and may have retained their administrative independence within the Kingdom of Mercia into the late 9th century, when Stamford became one of the Five Boroughs of the East Midlands under Danish control.