In 1792, Thomas Hawkes wrote about trade in timber, which was carried from Bourne to Spalding, and there was a boat which carried passengers to the market at Spalding on Tuesdays, but he comments that the service was erratic, as there was often too little or too much water for the vessels to operate.

Spalding is a market town with a population of 30, 000 on the River Welland in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England.

Spalding has a popular, reasonably-sized, market every Tuesday and Saturday and on the first Saturday in every month a Farmers ' Market.

Citing the declining popularity of stickball, Spalding took the ball off the market in 1979, but it returned in 1999 to much fanfare.

Twenty is a small, somewhat remote hamlet, east of the market town of Bourne, ( between Bourne and Spalding ) in Lincolnshire, England.

** In the English Fenland through the vehemence of the wind and the violence of the sea, the monastery of Spalding and many churches are overthrown and destroyed " All the whole country in the parts of Holland was for the most part turned into a standing pool so that an intolerable multitude of men, women and children were overwhelmed with the water, especially in the town of Boston, a great part thereof was destroyed.

Crowland ( modern usage ) or Croyland ( medieval era name and the one still in ecclesiastical use ) is a small town in south Lincolnshire, England, positioned between Peterborough and Spalding, with two sites of historical interest.

Orchard Hill is a town in Spalding County, Georgia, United States.

Passing through Spalding, where most of the flow is diverted through the Coronation flood relief channel, the town is protected by Marsh Road sluice and a sea lock to the east.

Below Spalding, there were no restrictions on headroom, which allowed small coasters to reach the town.

* Fowler-Welch Coolchain, historically a Spalding transport company, have their UK base in the town on West Marsh Road near the power station, and were bought by the Dart Group in 1994.

Visitors to Spalding can find other local attractions at the Pinchbeck Engine Museum ( just north of Spalding ), Bulb Museum ( situated at Birch Grove Garden Centre, Pinchbeck ) and the Gordon Boswell Romany Museum, to the south of the town.

Spalding and the surrounding area is famous for its parish churches ; St Paul's at Fulney, on the eastern side of the town, was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, the designer of St Pancras Station London, who was a friend of Spalding Gentlemen ’ s Society.

NOW Digital broadcasts from the East Casterton transmitter covering the town and Spalding, which provides the Peterborough 12D multiplex ( BBC Radio Cambridgeshire and Hereward FM ).

The town lies from Spalding ; from Boston ; from King's Lynn ; from Peterborough ; and by road from the county town of Lincoln.

The town is served by the local South Holland radio station Tulip Radio from nearby Spalding.

The principal town of South Holland is Spalding ( TF245227 ), which is also the main town on the A151 route.

When the last occupant left in 1896, the Hall & Gardens were bought on behalf of the people of Spalding as a memorial of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, and was handed over to the town " free of debt " on 9 August 1902 in celebration of the Coronation of King Edward VII.

* Spalding, South Australia, a town north of the Clare Valley

* Spalding railway station serves the town of Spalding, Lincolnshire, England

The history of navigation is intimately tied up with that of the Bourne Eau, since Bourne was the main centre of population above Spalding.

Spalding is located at the centre of a major region of flower and vegetable growth, due to the rich silty soil which mainly comprises drained recovered marshland or estuary.

Known as The Heart of the Fens, Spalding is famous as a centre of the bulb industry, and has close links with the Netherlands ( origin of the Geest family, who were former major local employers ).

It is situated on the B1537 road, east from the centre of Spalding and west from Holbeach.

It was presumably named after a previous chapel at Walcott, dedicated to Saint Oswald, and given by King John to Spalding Priory, which formerly stood in the centre of the village.

: A collection of many smaller folk groups under Mercian control from the 7th century, including the Spaldingas around Spalding, the Bilmingas and Wideringas near Stamford, the North Gyrwe and South Gyrwe near Peterborough, the West Wixna, East Wixna, West Wille and East Wille near Ely, the Sweordora, Hurstingas and Gifle near Bedford, the Hicce around Hitchin, the Cilternsæte in the Chilterns and the Feppingas near Thame ( approx.

The channel above Spalding was made deeper, the north bank was made stronger, and the North and South Drove Drains were enlarged through the fen.

They include North Gyrwe ( Peterborough and Crowland ), South Gyrwe ( Ely ), the Spalda ( Spalding ), and Bilmingas ( part of south Lincolnshire ).

He sat briefly as Conservative Member of Parliament for Lincolnshire South and for Spalding.

The local cricket team is Spalding Town Cricket Club, who have three teams on a Saturday in the South Lincs and Border Leagues and a Rutland League team and a Friendly XI on a Sunday for 2012.

In July 1836, Narcissa Whitman and Eliza Spalding were the first white pioneer women to cross South Pass.

The best available report lumps together Dyke, Twenty, South Fen and Spalding Road outside Bourne ( South Kesteven 011B ) with a total of 1, 598, with Dyke being the largest.

The 1959 closure of the former M & GN's lines resulted in the closure of South Lynn railway station on 28 February that year, depriving King's Lynn of services to Norwich and Spalding.

In South Australia, they had schools in many country towns including, Willunga, Willochra, Yarcowie, Mintaro, Auburn, Jamestown, Laura, Sevenhill, Quorn, Spalding, Georgetown, Robe, Pekina, Appila and several others.

For population statistics Dyke, Twenty, South Fen, and Spalding road outside Bourne are taken together ; Dyke is the largest of these settlements.

The constituency was created in 1997 from parts of the former seats of Holland with Boston & Stamford and Spalding.

* Spalding Rural District, a rural district in Holland, Lincolnshire, England from 1894 to 1974

While fifty years before, Albert Goodwill Spalding, secretary of the Chicago Ball Club of the National League, could write earnestly to the manager of the Buffalo club and request a guarantee of one hundred dollars for a baseball game in August, in this Golden Era a game at the Yankee Stadium might bring in nearly a hundred thousand dollars at the gate.

Playing to the pitcher's desire to return to his Midwestern roots and challenging Spalding's integrity, Hulbert convinced Spalding to sign a contract to play for the White Stockings ( now known as the Chicago Cubs ) in 1876.

Of course, Spalding had an ulterior motive for doing so.

In 1876, Spalding won 47 games as the prime pitchers for the Chicago White Stockings, who captured the National League's inaugural pennant by a wide margin.

Spalding published the first official rules guide for baseball.

In 1905, after Henry Chadwick wrote an article saying that baseball grew from the British sports of cricket and rounders, Spalding called for a commission to find out the real source of baseball.

Another young bassist of note is Esperanza Spalding ( born 1984 ) who, at 27 years of age, already won a Grammy for Best New Artist.

Chadwick edited The Beadle Baseball Player, the first baseball guide on public sale, as well as the Spalding and Reach annual guides for a number of years and in this capacity promoted the game and influenced the then-infant discipline of sports journalism.

In the game A. G. Spalding was pitcher and Ross Barnes shortstop for the Forest City nine ; these two afterwards becoming famous as star players of the Boston professional team of the early seventies.

Meanwhile E / 16, led by Second Lieutenant John M. Spalding, turned westward along the top of the bluffs, engaging in a two hour battle for WN-64.

Clara Spalding Brown, the wife of mining engineer Theodore Brown, was a correspondent for the San Diego Union and other California newspapers.

Sometime around noon on the 22nd, Major Spalding left the station for Helpmekaar to ascertain the whereabouts of Rainforth's G Company, which was now overdue.

The County is named for former United States representative and senator Thomas Spalding.

Her mark, di Ego Godiva Comitissa diu istud desideravi The Countess Godiva, have desired this for a long time, appears on a charter purportedly given by Thorold of Bucknall to the Benedictine monastery of Spalding.

She next starred in and directed the 1986 concert film Home of the Brave and also composed the soundtracks for the Spalding Gray films Swimming to Cambodia and Monster in a Box.

In reference to Presence and Resistance by Philip Auslander, a performance art critic, Sally Banes writes “… by the end of the 1980s, performance art had become so widely known that it no longer needed to be defined ; mass culture, especially television, had come to supply both structure and subject matter for much performance art ; and several performance artists, including Laurie Anderson, Spalding Gray, Eric Bogosian, Willem Dafoe, and Ann Magnuson, had indeed become crossover artists in mainstream entertainment .”

However, after the floods of 1947, new works such as the Coronation Channel were constructed to control flooding in Spalding and the washes are no longer used solely as pasture, but may be used for arable farming.

Beyond the river banks, much of the fertile arable land is composed of marine silt, which suits the bulb-growing for which Spalding is famous.

The Adventurers asked Thomas Tofield for a second opinion, who suggested a shorter cut from Spalding to Fosdyke.

Towards the end of the Second World War, E. G. Taverner, the chief engineer for the Drainage Board, devised a plan to relieve flooding in Spalding by creating a bypass channel, and building the Greatford Cut to divert the waters of the West Glen river into the Welland upstream of Market Deeping.

Coal for Spalding gasworks arrived by boat until the early 1900s, and the last regular trade was the carriage of corn, hay and straw from Spalding to Fosdyke, where the cargo was transferred to larger ships.

The re-routing was devised by E. G. Taverner, the chief engineer for the Welland and Deepings Drainage Board, towards the end of the Second World War, and was part of a much larger project which involved the digging of the Coronation Channel, a flood relief channel to divert the Welland around the south-eastern edge of Spalding, and the construction of Fulney lock, to exclude tidal water from the upper Welland.