Description
Fosdyke, a parish in Lincolnshire, on the Welland, which is here spanned by a bridge, 2 miles S of Algarkirk and Sut-terton station on the East Lincolnshire branch of the G.N.R., and 7 1/4 S by W of Boston. It has a post office under Boston; money order and telegraph office, Sutterton. Acreage, 2046; population, 433. Fosdyke Wash is 7 miles lower down^ The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the rectory of Algarkirk, in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, ££250 with residence. The church, a building of red brick in the Early English style, was erected in 1871-72. There is a coastguard station. Middlecotfc's almshouses for ten old people have about c£200, and there are some other charities.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
