Pode Hole

Pode Hole
Pode Hole post office
Vernatt's Drain
Pode Hole is located in Lincolnshire
Pode Hole
Pode Hole
Location within Lincolnshire
OS grid referenceTF213220
• London85 mi (137 km) S
Civil parish
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townSPALDING
Postcode districtPE11
Dialling code01775
PoliceLincolnshire
FireLincolnshire
AmbulanceEast Midlands
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Lincolnshire
52°46′56″N 0°12′10″W / 52.78214°N 0.20288°W / 52.78214; -0.20288

Pode Hole is a village in South Holland, Lincolnshire, England. It is 2 miles (3.2 km) from Spalding and 10 miles from Bourne. The village lies at the confluence of several drainage channels, where two pumping stations discharge water into Vernatt's Drain from land in Deeping Fen to the South and West. Water from Pinchbeck South Fen to the North is also lifted into Vernatt's Drain.[1] The village arose to service the pumping stations.

The village is largely a ribbon development stretching from the pumping stations and the Fishermans Arms public house along Bourne Road toward Spalding. The village post office and small shop is now also a bed and breakfast, and an outside catering service.

No separate population statistic is available for Pode Hole. The best available report is for the whole Pinchbeck civil parish, which covers several settlements north and east of Spalding with a total of 5,153.[2] At the 2011 census population details can be found under the civil parish of Pinchbeck.

The name may well be a reference to a marshy location, possibly with a population of frogs and toads.[3][4] Pode Hole farm, near Thorney probably derives its name the same way.

Pode Hole has one of the earliest rain gauge records of precipitation, beginning in 1726.[5]

Pode Hole falls within the drainage area of the Welland and Deepings Internal Drainage Board,[6] successors to the original Deeping Fen commissioners.

  1. ^ Wheeler, William Henry (1896). A History of the Fens of South Lincolnshire (2nd ed.). Boston, London: J.M. Newcombe and Simpkin, Marshall & Co. doi:10.1680/ahotfosl2e.50358.
  2. ^ Office for National Statistics web site, 2001 census
  3. ^ An Archaeological walk through Castle Bytham (PDF). Heckington: Heritage Trust of Lincolnshire. 2004. p. 6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 May 2005. Retrieved 27 January 2011. Description of a field named Pode Hole in a nearby village
  4. ^ Robin Bush, Julian Comrie (1 October 1994). Somerset: The Complete Guide. Dovecote Press. ISBN 978-1-874336-26-6. Attributes Somerset village name Podimore to frogs, saying pode=frog
  5. ^ Phil Jones (2001). "Early European instrumental records". History and Climate: Memories of the Future?. New York: Kluwer/Plenum. pp. 55–77.
  6. ^ Welland and Deepings IDB