Tag: Spalding

Spalding is a market town with a population of 30,000 on the River Welland in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. Little London is a hamlet directly south of Spalding on the B1172 road.
Spalding is well-known for its annual Flower Parade which attracts many regular visitors from all over the world. Since 2002 it has also held an annual Pumpkin Festival (not linked to Hallowe’en) in October.
A settlement has existed in the Spalding area as far back as Roman times when the site was used for the production of salt to which it was suited as marshland.
However, the settlement’s name is derived from an Anglian tribe, the Spaldingas, who settled in the area during the 6th century, and who retained their administrative independence right into the ninth and tenth centuries, when the region formed one of the Five Boroughs of the Kingdom of York.
In John Bartholomew’s Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887), Spalding was described as; “market town and par. with ry. sta.,…