__NOTOC__ Fleet Hargate is a village in the

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district of

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, England. It is situated east from

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, and just south from the A17 road. It falls within the wider

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, which stretches from Gedney to Holbeach with a total estimated population in 2011 of 2,136.

Community

The village of Fleet Hargate has been designated a

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by South Holland District Council, one of 13 within the district. Village amenities are a

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– the Rose and Crown, a caravan park, a day nursery, and a farm shop that includes a garden centre and tea room.

History

The village now sits just south of the A17, although previously the main road ran through the village. The Old Main Road as it is now named was part of the Boston to Lynn road,Paterson's Roads, By Edward Mogg, Eighteenth Edition. 1832. Page 392 managed in part by the original Holbeach

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. The now closed

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, formerly of the

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, is on Eastgate. It was served by the Fleet Light Railway, a potato railway built around 1910 to connect the Worth family farms to the mainline railway. The Bull, originally a pub and lodging house is (@2017) being turned into a private dwelling. ''A Terrier of Fleet Lincolnshire'' is a 1920 publication based on the 11th-century manuscript ''Fleet Terrier'' – a 'terrier' is a legal document detailing land, similar to a

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.''A Terrier of Fleet Lincolnshire''
The British Academy. Records of the social and economic history of England and Wales, v. 4, (1920). Retrieved 26 June 2013

Alternate Spellings

Fleet Hard Gate

References

External links

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Fleet Parish Council
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