Fosdyke
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Fosdyke is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Boston, Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2021 census was 510. It is situated approximately south from Boston, just off the A17, and east from the junction of the A17 with the A16.
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- UK place.static_image_name
- All Saints, Fosdyke (geograph 3609801).jpg
- UK place.static_image_width
- 160px
- UK place.static_image_caption
- All Saints, Fosdyke
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Fosdyke
- UK place.population
- 480
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Fosdyke
- UK place.shire_district
- Boston
- UK place.shire_county
- Lincolnshire
- UK place.region
- East Midlands
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Boston and Skegness
- UK place.post_town
- Boston
- UK place.postcode_district
- PE20
- UK place.postcode_area
- PE
- UK place.dial_code
- 01205
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- TF316331
- UK place.london_distance_mi
- 90
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Fosdyke is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Boston, Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2021 census was 510. It is situated approximately south from Boston, just off the A17, and east from the junction of the A17 with the A16.
==History== The name derives from the Old English and Old Norse "fotrs dic", meaning Fotr's (personal name) ditch.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fosdyke” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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